Gary Bergstrom Email & Phone Number

Dulles, Virginia / Dulles Airport (Iad) / Remote

● Products & Solutions Division. ● Industry Data Standards Department.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Industry work:● Received two industry awards (in 2013 from the JPTC and in 2017 from IATA, signed by the CEO of IATA) for my work improving industry standards. (See photos below and Honors / Award section.)● Current or former member of multiple travel industry work groups including PADIS EDIFACT, PADIS PNRGOV, JPTC, TKTcom, TKTcom Steering Group, TKTWG, Form Code Task Force, NDC Integration Group, EMDWG, EARWG, COG and GMMG. ● Primary editor of several IATA / A4A industry… Show more Industry work:● Received two industry awards (in 2013 from the JPTC and in 2017 from IATA, signed by the CEO of IATA) for my work improving industry standards. (See photos below and Honors / Award section.)● Current or former member of multiple travel industry work groups including PADIS EDIFACT, PADIS PNRGOV, JPTC, TKTcom, TKTcom Steering Group, TKTWG, Form Code Task Force, NDC Integration Group, EMDWG, EARWG, COG and GMMG. ● Primary editor of several IATA / A4A industry standards documents related to ticketing (ET & EMD). ● Proactively work with relevant governing industry bodies and carriers to improve industry systems and processes affecting my company. Corporate work: ● Key liaison between Commercial / Product / Business and the technical team. ● Lead translation of major business requirements coming from Commercial / Product / Business into technical specifications. ● Work at a high level to analyze a client’s business, then recommend and develop solutions to address their business challenges. ● Use my experience as a programmer to interpret how the existing system works and how to accomplish desired functionality requested in business requirements. ● Advise Commercial / Product / Business and work with Architecture and Air Commerce Technology to ensure technical design is fully thought through and documented before hand off to coders. ● Ensure technical specifications are documented in a way that streamlines work for development staff and ensures code developed delivers value expected. ● Effectively communicate in writing and face to face presentations on project status to all levels within organization including C level management, internal and external customers and vendors. ● Analyze customer problem reports to determine problem cause and recommend solutions. Show less

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Create software solutions within a full software development life cycle framework and provide production support and maintenance to existing product lines. Technical point of contact for a single application or sub-system. Primary functional areas of PNR (Passenger Name Record) and ET (Electronic Ticketing) and their related databases. Update technical documentation related to database designs, macros, testing plans, diagnostic and functional entries. Platform OS: TPF (IBM… Show more Create software solutions within a full software development life cycle framework and provide production support and maintenance to existing product lines. Technical point of contact for a single application or sub-system. Primary functional areas of PNR (Passenger Name Record) and ET (Electronic Ticketing) and their related databases. Update technical documentation related to database designs, macros, testing plans, diagnostic and functional entries. Platform OS: TPF (IBM Transaction Processing Facility). Languages: Assembler (IBM Basic Assembler Language (BAL)), TPF C, TPFDF, SabreTalk (migrated to C). Proprietary commands for Apollo, Galileo and Worldspan GDSs. Test Tools: binary/hexadecimal translator, CMSTPF, TPF/GI, Source View, GI/TERM, TPF IDE. Reporting Tools: Microsoft Office, primarily Word, Excel, some Access and proprietary Travelport tools. Other non-TPF work involving Java, SQL, PADIS EDIFACT, and XML Spy. Show less

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Similar to the IT Engineer position but with less responsibility.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Similar to the Programmer/Analyst position but with less responsibility.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

The company name from the date of my initial hire until August 2007 was Worldspan. Worldspan became part of Travelport in August 2007. I'm listing it separately as Worldspan so it shows up in search results. Prior to being known as Worldspan the company was called PARS.

Greater St. Louis Area

Similar to Sales Engineer position but with increased responsibilities. My customers included international engineering and chemical companies in China, France, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States including Anheuser-Busch, Allied Signal, Bayer, CF Industries, Chevron, Delco Remy (GM), DuPont, Farmland Industries, Foster Wheeler, Hoechst Celanese, Samsung and Teledyne. Developed database standards for customer orders allowing repeat and similar orders to be more accurately… Show more Similar to Sales Engineer position but with increased responsibilities. My customers included international engineering and chemical companies in China, France, South Korea, Taiwan and the United States including Anheuser-Busch, Allied Signal, Bayer, CF Industries, Chevron, Delco Remy (GM), DuPont, Farmland Industries, Foster Wheeler, Hoechst Celanese, Samsung and Teledyne. Developed database standards for customer orders allowing repeat and similar orders to be more accurately estimated and also for use as a sales and marketing tool. Developed procedures for ISO 9000 certification and received training as an ISO 9001 auditor. Upon leaving Nooter, as one of 17 Contracting Engineers, I was handling over 125,000 shop hours of work representing 16 percent of our total shop backlog and $16,000,000 in sales for customers in Louisiana, Texas and South Korea. Show less

Greater St. Louis Area

Customer job shop fabricator of ASME Section VIII Division 1 and Division 2 pressure vessels, heat exchangers, processing equipment and precision machined weldments for foreign and domestic customers in the chemical, petrochemical, fertilizer and synthetic fibers industries. Primary materials were carbon steel, high nickel alloy (e.g. Hastelloy, Inconel) and stainless steel, titanium, zirconium and tantalum solid and steel clads. Sales responsibilities included customer development,… Show more Customer job shop fabricator of ASME Section VIII Division 1 and Division 2 pressure vessels, heat exchangers, processing equipment and precision machined weldments for foreign and domestic customers in the chemical, petrochemical, fertilizer and synthetic fibers industries. Primary materials were carbon steel, high nickel alloy (e.g. Hastelloy, Inconel) and stainless steel, titanium, zirconium and tantalum solid and steel clads. Sales responsibilities included customer development, Bill Of Materials (BOMs) and labor costs estimating, quotation preparation, selling our technical capabilities and commercial negotiations. Project engineering responsibilities included coordination and problem solving of design, material procurement, fabrication, shipping and invoicing functions. Served as primary customer contact for all technical and commercial issues while managing multiple projects in various stages of completion. Worked closely with customers to improve the design and reduce the costs of their equipment. Show less