David Kauffman

Current

• Team Lead, Simplified Workflow at Eastman Kodak

Past

• Principal Engineer at Kodak Graphics Canada
• Product Manager at Creo Inc.
• Director of Development at Kinetic Sciences, Inc.

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Education

• The University of British Columbia

Recommended

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Connections

250 connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

David Kauffman’s Summary

Design engineer passionate about making technology accessible and easy to use. Interested in software and combined hardware/software devices, as well as work that spans the creative/production divide - developing and deploying technology to help creative ideas find their real-world realization, especially in digital prepress, digital post-production tv/film, and digital audio recording and post.

David Kauffman’s Specialties:

Inspiring development teams, explaining technology, consolidating market trends, visioning, conflict resolution, user experience design, 3D computer graphics, digital prepress, audio post and live mixing, patents, due diligence.

David Kauffman’s Experience

• Team Lead, Simplified Workflow

  Eastman Kodak

  (Public Company; EK; Printing industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

  Directed a 10-person team to prototype, design, develop, and usability test a new Prinergy 6 user interface that reduced by a factor of 10 the time and number of mouse-clicks required to process "simple" jobs. By simple, we defined the majority of print jobs currently printed on digital presses, and a significant portion of jobs (brochures, rack cards, etc.) of typical commercial offset work. Expected revenue of $20M.

Additional Information

David Kauffman’s Websites:

• My Website
• My Blog
• My Company

David Kauffman’s Honors:

* 29th of "Canda's 50 Most Influential People in Graphic Communications" PrintAction 2003
* Best Publication award for "A Story of Creo"
* UBC Engineering Award for top pre-Engineering sudent.
* Kauffman,D.S.,Wood,S.A.1987. Digital elevation model extraction from stereo satellite images. Proceedings of IGARSS ’87, technique used for google maps.
* U.S. Patent 5,625,766, transparent paper for verifying imposition and back-up.
* 30-second Commercial PSA for SPCA chosen to air. http://www.thegreatccc.com/winnersrelease.pdf

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