Kris Coppieters

Current

General Manager/Chief Engineer at Rorohiko Workflow Resources

Past

Chief Engineer at Markzware, Inc.
Service & Support Manager at Capital Mac Centre
Service & Support Manager at Logic n.v.

Software Engineer at Prometheus c.v.
Informaticus at State University of Gent

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Education

Rijksuniversiteit Gent

Recommended

15 people have recommended Kris

Connections

341 connections

Industry

Computer Software

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Kris Coppieters’s Summary

Translating between propellerheads and artists, or how to avoid software project failure, developer burn-out and user discontent.

Many software projects fail because of non-technical aspects - 'want' vs. 'need', non-communication between stakeholders, feature creep, tool selection, lack of fun,...

Kris has a proven track record in world-wide mentoring, coaching, training and co-development services from a left brain/right brain perspective - teach how to gain and balance technical skills as well as people skills.

Talk to Kris if you do software development around the DTP/printing/prepress industry (e.g. QuarkXPress, Adobe products,...) - his custom InDesign SDK training/QuarkXPress XTension development training comes highly recommended.

If you want to make off-the-shelf software work better and smoother, talk to Kris - he can help you extend it, integrate it, and train developers and users about its efficient use.

Contact Kris (kris@rorohiko.com) for coaching and mentoring your development team.

Software designer/developer.
People Skills/Empathy
Software Design and Development Trainer.

Kris Coppieters’s Specialties:

Teaching various aspects of software design and development (patterns, techniques, programming languages,...).
Translate between left-brained and right-brained people.
Balance technical and people skills.
Show how to create pragmatical, usable software.
Keywords: Software Development, Printing, Prepress, Mathematics, Algorithm Design, Project Design, Usability Consulting, Career Coaching

Kris Coppieters’s Experience

General Manager/Chief Engineer

Rorohiko Workflow Resources

(Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — Present (4 years 5 months)

Teacher, Mentor, Software Designer, Software Developer.
Chief Engineer

Markzware, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1996 — July 2005 (8 years 11 months)

Software architect/designer/developer for the core engine used by the preflight-related Markzware products
Service & Support Manager

Capital Mac Centre

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1995 — September 1996 (1 year 1 month)

Formation and management of a service&support department: procedure book, training, hiring,...
Service & Support Manager

Logic n.v.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 1990 — September 1995 (5 years 1 month)

Started service and support department; grew it from 2 to 15 people. Procedure book, training, IT infrastructure, hiring,...
Secondary to that: custom, vertical development projects for various customers
Software Engineer

Prometheus c.v.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Computer Software industry)

September 1988 — September 1990 (2 years 1 month)

Software design and development; various vertical projects: Bill-of-Materials for furniture industry, Optimization of cutting of rectangular plates into smaller plates with the least loss possible, Pre-Internet networking and messaging software for the cattle feed industry, various drivers and utility softwares,...
Informaticus

State University of Gent

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)

January 1983 — September 1988 (5 years 9 months)

Various tasks: development and assistance with development of various projects, both administrative and scientific.
Teaching programming language courses.