Kittipong Techapanichgul, a technology enthusiast and evangelist, has been helping Thai Pet Industrial Company Limited (TPI) to achieve a radical enterprise transformation through technologies and innovations. With the company mission to become one of the most inspiring plastic packaging manufacturers for foods and beverages in ASEAN, he has been working with the board of directors to take the company to the next level by devising company strategies and leading key implementation projects, mostly focusing on how to leverage technologies to empower employees at all levels to work effectively and efficiently.
Before joining TPI, he was a graduate student of the System Design and Management (SDM) program at MIT where he expressed a great interest and a strong passion for leveraging technologies to revolutionize the way humans learn through his master's thesis focusing on students' motivation to learn. He not only proposed the fundamental system architecture of learning systems in which the objective is to raise motivation to learn in high school students but also developed a software prototype to test the practicality of his proposed design. During his last academic semester at MIT, he was appointed as a Research Assistant in Engineering Systems Devision for the Guided Learning Pathways (GLP) research project to design and develop a prototype of a socio-technical system that illustrates alternative learning pathways in a non-linear learning space.
Prior to MIT, he has served various positions in the United States' leading organizations. For example, a system programmer at the University of Pittsburgh, an IT service administrator and a business line application analyst at ExxonMobil. His expertise primarily lies in web application design, development and integration. He also has professional experience in customer service, technical support and technical consultation. In addition to his professional experience, he was selected to work as a team-building committee and a master of ceremonies of the annual team-building event at ExxonMobil (Thailand) in 2008.
He received his bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Chulalongkorn University in 2003, a master's degree in Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh where he obtained a research assistantship from the School of Education in 2005 and a master's degree in System Design and Management from MIT in 2011. |