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Washington, DC, US

Alexandria, VA, US

• Responsible for managing ASTA’s Industry and Consumer Affairs functions including monitoring and influending industry issues and trends affecting travel agency businesses. Additionally, advocates for and represents.
• Member Education / Communications
• Member Engagement
• Industry/Government Representation
• Consumer Affairs Oversight

Brussels, Brussels, BE

Brussels, Brussels, BE

The World Travel Agents Associations Alliance, also known as WTAAA, was incorporated in 2008 as an international non-profit trade association in Brussels, Belgium. The association maintains an Articles of Association, which is governed by Belgian law.WTAAA’s board of directors meets twice a year to discuss issues that impact the global travel agency.

• Capabilities / Specialties:
• Account Director - The Taproot Foundation: Leads, mobilizes and engages professionals in pro bono service driving social change
• Program Management Office (PMO) Leadership: Drove complex airline, travel agency project / product initiatives for major airlines and travel agencies in US and 25 Asia-Pacific markets. Led multifaceted migrations.
• Strategic Market Direction-Setting: Evolved corporate strategy and process. Introduced airline, consumer and corporate Web strategies for Asia. Identified growth opportunities in multichannel markets. Innovatively.
• Global Customer Ownership / Sales: Acted as strategic global account owner and joint-venture manager over partners providing distribution and technology solutions for 10,000 travel agency locations in Asia-Pacific.
• Organizational Leadership: Served in functional COO capacity, successfully directing international organizational teams and operational mergers and transitions. Profitably integrated acquired European companies in.

Arlington, Virginia, US

• Headquartered in Arlington, Virginia, ARC is an airline-owned data aggregation and solutions company supporting the travel industry by providing transaction settlement and data information services. ARC serves the.
• Corporate Strategy: Developed multi-tiered strategy, which focused on airline ticket settlement, data, new market connections (merchandising) and core platform improvements to company systems and technology.
• Product Marketing: Evolved new business opportunities for company, with focus on product, price, placement (distribution), promotion and people (support).
• New Business Development and Sales: Monetized ARC data by leading and directing sales opportunities and ensuring annual corporate sales goals were met or exceeded.
• Data and Analytics: Focused on innovation and creation of new initiatives to monetize data with team of highly skilled data analysts.
• Partnership Strategies: Evolved new opportunities for company through partnerships with key industry players.

Chicago, IL, US

• Based in the United States, one of the world’s major and largest airlines, United is a subsidiary of United Continental Holdings with corporate offices in Chicago. In May 2010, Continental Airlines and UAL Corporation.
• Establishing an Enterprise PMO: Ensuring consistent Program Management Office (PMO) processes, practices and related transformational activities are defined, aligned and adopted within the United Airlines IT.
• Change Agent: Driving change in resource management, communications, process development, tools, technology and vendor management at an enterprise IT level, standardizing and implementing needed processes across.
• Defining an Outsourcing Framework: Defining and progressing an enterprise-wide strategy to streamline end-to-end project outsourcing so as to ensure quality and rapid delivery of key merchandising, e-commerce and.

• To land an influential leadership or consultative role requiring a combination of his extensive operational, program management, customer relationship management, sales and global marketing leadership experience.
• To use his skills to inspire teams to deliver exceptional results while aligning the most cost-effective use of technology with business strategy, strengthening the bottom line and enabling an organization’s success.

• Senior Sabre Europe Leader Responsible for:
• Setting strategic market direction: Drove strategy development for key markets in Asia. Led initiative to redefine multichannel marketing opportunities, capitalizing on airline Web concept for travel agencies.
• Leading multiple international organizations: Facilitated linkage, alignment and business process improvements between Dublin, Kraków, Bangalore, Hamburg and Hounslow technology centers. Served as site leader for.
• Directing technology teams: Leveraged local development and marketing for European and global initiatives, driving airline Web portal development and travel agency point-of-sale tools using agile methodologies.
• Driving regional direction and priorities: Provided regional and operational leadership, articulating company’s direction and priorities to foster strong communications, team development and growth.
• Developing savvy global leaders: Optimized skills as well as provided training, tools and enhanced processes for key leaders in multiple geographic locations.

Southlake, Texas, US

• Senior Asia-Pacific leader, with responsibilities for:
• Managing joint-venture accounts, partnerships and project management in Asia: Drove complex product migrations and integrations. Simultaneously directed product marketing, strategy and distribution initiatives.
• Directing complex product migrations in Japan: Drove product migrations and integrations as change agent and project management leader. Directed product marketing, distribution initiatives and business strategies..
• Managing relationships with Japan Airlines and All Nippon Airways: Introduced airline solutions to Japanese airline market.
• Leading regional account directors and managers: Capitalized on product life-cycle management and process alignment for all joint-venture products and services. Led team of 20 people.
• Possesses in depth Asia/Pacific business culture experience & expertise: strong proj mgt & leadership capabilities ensured Sabre’s success in the region

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, US

Senior Sabre Headquarters Leader for Sabre Product Marketing- Directed core ticketing, fulfillment and settlement solutions, as well as other core Sabre products connecting travel buyers and sellers and supporting the global travel agency environment: led a Product Marketing team of >100 (Sabre spun off from American Airlines as a Fortune 500 company in.

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