Michael Coppinger
Product Support Manager at Caterpillar Inc.
West Lafayette, Indiana, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Coppinger is a product support and market development leader with over 15 years of hands-on engineering and aftersales experience, currently managing global product health for Caterpillar’s spark-ignited gas engines. He blends field-driven technical insight—from failure analysis on vessels and engines to design improvements—with strategic market development, having led business cases and launched programs to expand gas compression opportunities. Known for translating warranty, service, and VOC data into actionable product strategy, he drives reliability, cost reduction, and aftermarket growth across regions. Comfortable briefing senior leadership and collaborating with dealers, OEMs, and suppliers, he pairs strong interpersonal skills with a track record of influencing design and production decisions. Based in West Lafayette and grounded in a BSE in Product Design from Michigan Tech, he also brings atypical hands-on craft experience from boatbuilding and entrepreneurship that reinforces a practical, systems-oriented approach.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BSE, Engineering, Product Design, BSE, Engineering, Product Design at Michigan Technological University
Github Skills (8)
pygame7
python5
game-engine4
game-development4
reddit2
chrome1
chrome-extension1
youtube1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hollahollabooya/testing_analytics
Jun 2022 - Jun 2024
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
hollahollabooya/GA4-Clone
Jun 2024 - Jul 2024
Contributions:24 pushes, 1 branch in 19 days
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