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Craig has consulted with clients in several areas: bidirectional data replication, business intelligence statistics, legacy conversion, troubled project evaluation, IT strategy formulation and technical staffing. Craig specializes in weaving his engineering background, mathematical maturity and deep experience into useful, actionable, effective business solutions.

Craig retired from Sabre Holdings in May 2007. At Sabre he held several executive positions over a 10+ year period, including CTO for 6 years. During this time he oversaw the introduction of Unix and Linux (and other open source software) to the Sabre distribution systems, culminating in Sabre’s Air Travel Shopping Engine. ATSE reduced the unit costs for shopping and pricing by over 90% and enabled a large expansion in shopping capabilities at Sabre.

Craig spent over 10 years at Galileo International (now Travelport) where he rose to VP of Technology in 1996. He was introduced to travel management IT at United Airlines, on the Apollo distribution system. He led the implementation of branch-and-bound implicit enumeration in Apollo’s shopping applications in 1987, jumpstarting his career in travel.

Craig was also a petroleum production engineer, a drilling engineer and a licensed professional engineer (now inactive) in the 1970s; and an instructor of microeconomics, macroeconomics, FORTRAN, and the IBM PC while in graduate school in the early 1980s.  He has a BS in mechanical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in mineral economics from Colorado School of Mines.

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