Gino Goossens

Current

• Member: Web Steering Group at TUI Travel PLC
• Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Cheqqer Headquarter (TUI Travel PLC)
• Founder, CEO at Trip Essentials. Plan and Go!

• Internet TechCritic at Twinkle

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Gino Goossens’s Summary

At TUI Travel PLC I am responsible for driving the global (technology) innovation and vision for a new social travel community role out in all TUI source markets named Cheqqer. Prior is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Cheqqer members globally.

Specialized in select E-Commerce industries:

- Retail (Travel, Sports, Brands, ...)
- Consumer Packaged Goods (Coca Cola, Unilver, ...)
- Branded Manufacturing & Services (HP, Microsoft, UPC, ...)

Specialized in Web Analytics:

- Omniture (Site Catalyst, HBX, Visual Science, ...)
- WebTrends (Visitor Intelligence, Analytics, Score, ...)
- Google Analytics
- Web Analytics Vendor Selection (RFP, Requirements, KPI's, ...)

I have authored articles and spoken at several conferences, most of them on innovation, semantic web, recommendation systems technologies, industry innovation and social intelligence for E-Commerce/ Travel industry and service orientated systems.

Gino Goossens’s Specialties:

- Social Communities/ Media
- Innovation (Online)
- International/ Multilingual Online initiatives
- Technology vision
- Recommendation systems
- Enterprise computing
- Cloud computing
- Functional web architectures
- Service oriented systems (Travel)
- Web services, social intelligence
- Machine learning
- Information retrieval strategist

Professional expertise and specialties:

- Grey Area Diagnosis
- RPR Problem Diagnosis (Rapid Problem Resolution)
- Remote diagnostics

Gino Goossens’s Experience

• Member: Web Steering Group

  TUI Travel PLC

  (Public Company; TTP; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  June 2009 — Present (2 months)

  Web steering group acts with a key focus on further development of web platforms and applications which make inventory available to TUI businesses (hotels, car hire, content, flights and travel extras), creating efficiencies from aligning contracting activity, improvements around usability, web conversion, commercial steering and traffic generation.

• Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

  Cheqqer Headquarter (TUI Travel PLC)

  (Public Company; TT.L; Internet industry)

  February 2009 — Present (6 months)

  At TUI Travel PLC I am responsible for driving the global (technology) innovation and vision for a new social travel community role out in all TUI source markets named Cheqqer. Prior is to continuously enhance the innovation on behalf of Cheqqer members globally.

• Founder, CEO

  Trip Essentials. Plan and Go!

  (Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

  September 2008 — Present (11 months)

  Tripess.com stands for Trip Essentials and is an intelligent online Travel service for everyone!
  
  The service lets you, while surfing different Travel websites, save your favorite accommodations on one single page. Once you saved your favorite accommodations you can; -sort, compare, forward, create a guest passport for (fellow) travelers or family at home. But the service will also mark coincidences ("3 other people also visited this hotel") and not to forget: you can easily book your next vacation through Trip Essentials (online or with a local travel agency). Add services like insurance, car rental, transfers and many more. Last but not least: it synchronizes your (online) agenda and matches your contacts with all your favorite social networks (Hyves, Facebook, MySpace etc..).
  
  You can use Trip Essentials on your PC at home or on your mobile phone. Trip Essentials is the first online intelligent Travel service that allows you to use all the services on a single website.

• Internet TechCritic

  Twinkle

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Publishing industry)

  May 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

  Twinkle in the #1 Internet magazine in The Netherlands since 2005. My role is to read and write about (international) developments within the Internet industry with a core on Webintelligence and Technology.

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