Patrick Roupin P R

Design Thinking professional with over

14 years of international, multi-industry
and multi-disciplinary experience.
Patrick is an expert of digital
transformation, organizational
behavior, entrepreneurship and CONTACT
+32 493 979 100
creativity. patrick@kovent.com
www.kovent.com

Work Experience
Kovent Core Competencies
Design Thinking Consultant •Business Design
•Human Centered Design
• Visiting faculty at Rubika, DYPDC, IBS, L'ecole de design de
Nante, Welingkar, ESC Rennes, Raffles International & •Innovation Strategy
University international of Rabat. •Organizational Culture
Subjects taught: Design thinking, business design, innovation, •Systemic Design
online marketing, user experience, usability engineering,
ethnography, user research, intellectual property.
• Organizational transformation workshop for Olayan
Financing Company (Coca-cola, Toshiba). Happiness and Self
Skills
Awareness at the work place. Branding, Marketing
• User research for Welingkar. Study on alternate sources of Change Management
energy for India rural market in collaboration with Design Thinking
ChangeLabs - Stanford University. Ecosystem Design
• Contextual innovation design workshop for CavinKare. Entrepreneurship
Training in user research as part of the Blue Ocean Strategy Facilitation
program given by INSEAD. Graphic Facilitation
• Design research for Ingersoll Rand. Social and cultural Product Design
insights on consumer durable for India rural market. System & Service Design
• Branding and corporate identity for Quasars Vision, Prospective & Foresight
Palmforce, SBM, Sigaram, Nijam, Future Vision and Micar. Semantic
Strategic Visioning
Usability Engineering
ES Consulting User Experience
User Research
Director, Design Innovation Services
• Facilitation strategy for General Entertainment Authority,
General Presidency of Youth affairs, King Salman Youth Education
Center and Olayan Financing Company.
1999 - Institut Supérieur de Design -
• Innovation strategy for Modon.
2004 RUBIKA, FR
• Service design for Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Municipal
and Rural Affairs and Ministry of Transportation. Masters in Engineering Design
• Graphic recording and storyboarding for HRDF, Ministry of Management
Finance and Ministry of Labour & Social Development.
• Main consulting subjects: Youth empowerment, 1996 - Academy of Fine Arts, BE
Entrepreneurship, Organizational development and Women 1999 Degree in Fine Arts
economical inclusion.

• Training development and facilitation for ELM, Almoosa

Specialist Hospital, King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz University Awards & Editions
Hospital and King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University.
Facilitate Business Innovation
Book publication in co-authoring with Bassam
• Publication of Facilitate Business Innovation
Alkharashi - Michael Allen & Michael Wilkinson.
• In co-authoring with Bassam Alkharashi, Michael Allen &
Michael Wilkinson. BEST OF 3D
Virtual Product Design Edition MONSA
Design product publication.
Araamis
Design for the Real World - Victor
Senior Consultant, Service Design PAPANECK
Prize Chamber of Commerce - RUBIKA
• Collaboration design strategy development & Strategy map Jury: Philips design, Seb-Tefal, Volvo, Sony
implementation proposal for Ministry of Labour. Ericsson, CDN International.
• Design management platform for the Office of H.E. Adel M.
National Trophy ACROPOSE
Fakeih.
Awarded 8th place for Urban furniture
• Service design - National patient referral program for the designing.
Ministry of Health.

Human Factors International
Senior Human Factors Specialist
• Head of training material development in French for website
and application designing. Usability, methodology and
vocabulary translation. Research on localization for the
French speaking market.
• Euroclear finance services: Usability testing and wire frame
for Euroclear websites. Data gathering and usability testing
for Euroclear settlement application.
• Eskom energy: corporate website evaluation.
• Onegame, Poker Room online: pre-sell evaluation for business
proposal.
• Wal-Mart: expert review and "how to do" for the redesign.
• Fidelity International: wire frame designing for the corporate
website.
• Sony Orris, intranet: user interface structure.
Certificates
University of Happiness at Work, UBATX
Managing a millennials workforce.
Organizational transformation. Quality of life
and stress management at work.
Graphic Facilitation - The Grove
Execute graphic recording and graphic
facilitation. Organize discovery workshop based
on the techniques of graphic recording.
Usability Analyst-Human Factors
International
Expertise in usability engineering following a
user-centered design approach.
Service Design - Global Service Jam
Design-based approach to problem solving and
creativity.

User Centric Design - IDEO University

Challenge of accomplishment: How might we
Decathlon reduce the gender earnings gap?
Fashion and Product designer

• Designing of the climbing and trekking products for Quechua
Winter 2004.
• Decision making tools for Quechua brand benchmark.
• Product development for Advanced Design department of
Decathlon.
Selected talks
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University
5th Cultural Program - Business Design
Visualization using LEGO Serious Play

Excellence Dayz
Persona: Key tool for user experience
Digital Skills Languages
Society of Technical Communication, STC
Dreamweaver English [TOEFL 70.83%]
Social Trends and innovation
Illustrator French [Native]
InDesign Journée du numérique, RUBIKA
MS Office Entrepreneurial journey in Asia
Photoshop

Others Interest Recommendations

• Born on the 5th March 1980 Enthusiast about all forms of Available on LinkedIn:
• Nationality: Belgian contemporary art. Art maker.
• Married, 1 Son be.linkedin.com/in/patrickroupin/
• Driving licenses

Patrick Roupin