Bert Schiettecatte

Current

Owner and Director at Percussa

Past

Researcher at Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Researcher at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Software Engineer at Allmansland

software engineer at im@gic

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Education

Université catholique de Louvain
Syntra
Stanford University

Vrije Universiteit Brussel
KA Aalst

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Bert Schiettecatte’s Summary

I have been a user of professional audio equipment from early on and have always been interested in using technology to give people the ability to create.

After getting my MA/Music, Science and Technology degree (Stanford University), I returned to Belgium to found PERCUSSA.

Our goal is to design revolutionary products and technology for the professional audio and electronic musical instrument industry.

Bert Schiettecatte’s Specialties:

Complete design and development cycle for pro-audio / electronic musical instrument products.

Bert Schiettecatte’s Experience

Owner and Director

Percussa

(Privately Held; Consumer Electronics industry)

October 2004 — Present (4 years 10 months)

Fundraising, business planning, product design, identification and launch strategy, lead software and electronics engineer, product prototype runs, sales, bootstrapping
Researcher

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)

October 2003 — October 2004 (1 year 1 month)

research on usability of electronic musical instruments and tangible interfaces
Researcher

Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

(Educational Institution; Computer Software industry)

October 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 1 month)

doing research on waveguide mesh reverbs and fast algorithms for realtime applications
Software Engineer

Allmansland

(Music industry)

1998 — 1999 (1 year)
software engineer

im@gic

(Music industry)

1995 — 1996 (1 year)

Bert Schiettecatte’s Education

Université catholique de Louvain

PhD , 2004 — 2008

doing research on tangible interfaces
Syntra

Junior Sales Representative 2006 — 2006

short, intense sales course
Stanford University

MA , Master of Arts in Music, Science and Technology , 2001 — 2002

designed software and electronics for 5 revisions of an electronic musical interface, the Laser Harp, together with Eto Otitigbe (mechanical engineering) and Luigi Castelli (sound design). One of the interface prototypes is now at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics.

Activities and Societies:

took latin dance classes
Vrije Universiteit Brussel

MSc , Computer Science , 1997 — 2001

did several software engineering projects touching on audio topics, such as an MPEG4 structured audio tool prototype and PocketPC drum machine software.

Activities and Societies:

member of InfoGroup for a while
KA Aalst

1994 — 1998

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Bert Schiettecatte’s Interests:

technology, computer science, engineering, business processes, product design, usability, interaction design, bootstrapping, startups, business strategy, ... swimming, skiing, surfing, running, scuba diving, ... playing the piano, music, musical instruments, jazz, electronic music, ... cooking, reading, ...