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Bruges Area, Belgium
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- owner at Happy-Banana
- Author at O'Reilly & Associates
- Technical Consult at plugMedia
- Author at Friends of ED
- Adobe User Group Manager Belgium at AUG BELGIUM VZW
- Coordinator at Multi-Mania 09
- Owner at newmovieclip.com
- Lecturer at Technical University of West-Flanders
- Professional Speaker at Flash Platform Industry Events
- Education
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- Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
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- Industry
- Information Technology and Services
- Websites
Koen De Weggheleire’s Summary
Koen De Weggheleire’s Specialties:
- Flash Platform Solutions : Adobe Flash and Actionscript 1.0, 2.0,3.0 + Flex 2.0. & 3.0 + Adobe AIR (desktop development)
- Video editing and post production (Adobe Premiere, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut Pro).
- Multimedia tout court ;-)
Koen De Weggheleire’s Experience
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owner
Happy-Banana
(Online Media industry)
July 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
At Happy Banana we create, and do consult on award-winning rich internet applications using the Adobe Flash Platform (Flash, Flex and Air).
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Author
O'Reilly & Associates
(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Publishing industry)
June 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Koen is involved in writing the "O'Reilly AIR Cookbook", accepting the invitation made by David Tucker. The other authors are talented Flex and AIR developers with a lot of writing experiences: Rich Tretola, Marco Casario and David Tucker. The book will be published at the end of this year.
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Technical Consult
plugMedia
(Internet industry)
September 2007 — Present (1 year 11 months)
PlugMedia creates network facilities and advise for innovation for the multimedia sector in the Flanders region.
Markets Web/multimedia/broadcasters/mobile. More info at www.plugMedia.be. -
Author
Friends of ED
(Writing and Editing industry)
August 2007 — Present (2 years)
Koen was coauthor on the book "Foundation Flex for Developers: Data-Driven Applications with PHP, ASP.NET, ColdFusion, and LCDS (Foundation)".
He is currently working on the book "Advanced AIR applications" which will be published later this year (2008). -
Adobe User Group Manager Belgium
AUG BELGIUM VZW
(Information Technology and Services industry)
May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)
Adobe User Group Belgium (AUG Belgium), the official user group for Adobe users in Belgium focusses on 3 things: connecting, inspiring and learning. We organise meetings every month for free and currently we have +400 members. If you are interesting in joining the AUG community, have a look at http://www.adobeusergroup.be and sign up !
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Coordinator
Multi-Mania 09
(Events Services industry)
September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)
I am coordinating the Multi-Mania 2009 event, 2M09 in short. This is Belgiums biggest Multimedia event. During the day we have some sessions on Multimedia topics given by national and international guest speakers and during the evening we have a big awardshow (with a keynote speaker) where students can win a real MultiMania Award for the work they have done during the past school year !
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Owner
newmovieclip.com
(Design industry)
December 2005 — Present (3 years 8 months)
Koen does Flash platform consultancy covering topics like Flash, Flex and AIR. In house company presentations on the Flash Platform have no secrets for Koen. If you want to be updated on the latest and greatest Flash platform technologies, give him a shout, he will help you with a smile !
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Lecturer
Technical University of West-Flanders
(Design industry)
September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Koen is teaching Flash Platform Solutions to students at Technical University of West-Flanders. He covers Adobe Flash, Adobe Flex and Adobe AIR. One of the programmes where Koen is working is "Digital Design and Media" - DEVIGN. This program brings together design and development in one programme and currently has more then 160 students enrolled.
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Professional Speaker
Flash Platform Industry Events
(Information Technology and Services industry)
September 2005 — Present (3 years 11 months)
Koen is speaking at several national and international industry events covering topics on Flash, Flex and AIR. Koen already did a session at Adobe Usergroup Belgium, MCTKRING 06-07, Adobe MAX 2007 , FITC AMSTERDAM, 360 Flex , Flashbelt 08, Flash on the beach 08, Flash in the Can 08, ... Contact Koen for a conference session or in-house industry presentation : info[at]newmovieclip.com
Koen De Weggheleire’s Education
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Hogeschool West-Vlaanderen - Vlaamse Autonome Hogeschool
master , Multimedia Management and Information Technology , 2000 — 2005
Passed with big distinction
- Activities and Societies:
- KOKOON, www.coolcast.be, mctgoesUSA, ...
Additional Information
Koen De Weggheleire’s Websites:
Koen De Weggheleire’s Interests:
Flash and Flex community ! Music production (trance music)
Koen De Weggheleire’s Honors:
“Saxion New Media Award 2004”, Time.Warriors
MultiMediaMadness Award “Best Multimedia-Thesis 2003”, Time.Warriors
MultiMediaMadness Award Best Flash Freestyle project 2003
Digistudent 2002 “Toshiba Award 2003”, Arno & Lamorak
MultiMediaMadness : 2e plaats Award “Best CD-ROM 2002”, Arno & Lamorak
Koen De Weggheleire’s Contact Settings
Interested In:
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- reference requests
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