Elmer Alinsog

Current

Founder | Managing Partner: Business Architect, Product & Business Development & Partnership at TravelStrategyBusiness.Com

Past

Founding Partner - EVP, Sales, Marketing & Partnership at International Travel Group
VP, Business Development at Fareportal/CheapOair
Business & Technology Strategist, Private Jet Charter Broker at Freelance Consulting

Solutions Architect - Business Development Manager at Qwest Communications
Material Science Process Engineer at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Process Application Engineer at Hoya Optics. Inc.
Sr. Process Application Technician at Newport Thin Film

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Leisure, Travel & Tourism

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Elmer Alinsog’s Summary

Elmer Alinsog - Founder | Managing Director

Mr. Alinsog has an extensive technology R&D and technology transfer background from Semiconductor, Flat Panel Display to Enterprise Software Architecture & Automation Design, with positions at Hewlett-Packard Labs HQ in Palo Alto, CA, as Thin Film Process Engineer. Mr. Alinsog is also the primary architect of a Fabricated Pixelation of Organic Light Emitting Diode display U.S. patent and co-author of numerous Field Emission Display white papers while at HP Labs; Qwest Communications as Business Development Manager in New York City's Wall Street corridor. Prior to architecting the Buy-Side and Sell-Side business model of AgentFactor (an International Travel Group Holdings Company), Mr. Alinsog held the title of Vice President, Business and Partnership Development at Fareportal and was responsible for business growth in the technology, corporate and consumer markets. Mr. Alinsog brings wealth of knowledge base in private aviation charter, scheduled commercial travel and luxury travel sector. Most recent notable milestone of Mr. Alinsog contribution to travel industry is automating the availability and book-ability of private yacht charter in real-time. To bring this type of product to the mainstream market, to making it affordable to charter a yacht by extending the availability of per cabin charter and a marina based lodging as alternative to hotel accommodation. Two of next on Mr. Alinsog’s project pipeline is (1) automating the availability to charter a private jet; with air taxi model spin through shared flight charter-by-the-seat-sell sponsorship program by tracking dead-legs aircraft availability in real-time; (2) building a Travel XML Registry, an Open API Marketplace for business-to-business to buy/sell travel products, similar to how NASDAQ trades financial instruments and services.

Elmer Alinsog’s Specialties:

Travel & Tourism Technology Mashups, Wholesale Products Aggregation and Distribution Strategist; Online Marketing Expert; Enterprise Scale Business Development, Partnership and Product Development Expertise - Fortune 500 & Global 2000 Experience.

Elmer Alinsog’s Experience

Founder | Managing Partner: Business Architect, Product & Business Development & Partnership

TravelStrategyBusiness.Com

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

October 2002 — Present (6 years)

ONLINE TRAVEL & TOURISM BUSINESS, TECHNOLOGY & DISTRIBUTION EXPERT.

COMPETENT. RELIABLE. CONSISTENT. 20 years experience working in Silicon Valley and Wall Street corridor with Fortune 500 and Global 2000 corporate executives. Trend spotter, extremely resourceful, early adopter, dedicated, energetic and self-motivated solutions provider with creative approach to problem solving, catalyst for initiating positive change and excellent mental thought process, vendor/customer relations negotiating and leadership skills with a proven track-record on identifying key areas for improvement. Successfully meeting or exceeding sales goals and objectives and extremely knowledgeable with today’s market makers, movers and shakers.

The Travel 2.0 | Strategy + Business team is a network of global travel & tourism domain experts on business & technology architecture, business development and marketing.
Founding Partner - EVP, Sales, Marketing & Partnership

International Travel Group

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

July 2006 — February 2008 (1 year 8 months)

- International Travel Group by leveraging various dynamic packaging booking engine and XML/API web services based automation tools to create buy-side and sell-Side travel content aggregation, distribution and contact center reservation protocols & processes. Responsible for identifying Travel 2.0 and Web 2.0 API Mashup integration possibilities as well as Web Analytics, which relates to travel technology and airlines automation. It includes the creation of real-time yacht charter distribution system and aggregation of 120 + Adventure/Experiential Tours through XML/API direct connectivity.
- Selected clients and partners that were consummated include Amadeus, Sabre Travel network, NexGen Travel, XYKA, SkyBird, Skylink, TransAm, Travel Holdings, Rearden Commerce, Wyndham Vacations Ownership, YachtBooker, YachtStore, Adventure Engine, etc.
VP, Business Development

Fareportal/CheapOair

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

September 2005 — June 2006 (10 months)

- Responsible for overall business and partnership development of Jen Travel Equity Group of Companies; Fareportal, Inc. – technology entity, Travelong – a corporate division, Farebuzz – a B2B division and Cheapoair – a business to consumer division.
- Formulate strategy of operation – ticketing, contact center reservation protocols & processes, negotiating & structuring partnership deals, online marketing initiatives that include PPC, SEM/SEO, Organic Search, Banner Advertising and Affiliate Programs. Conduct campaign quantitative analysis. Successfully closing small, medium to enterprise scale accounts that could possibly double or triple the group of companies’ revenue size at the end of 2007.
- Extensive knowledge in providing travel technology automation, aggregation of third-party negotiated airlines contracts and wholesale travel contents via GDS/ATPCO, net fares. With emphasis to expand fulfillment distribution channel using pull/push OTA compliant XML/API direct connect.
Business & Technology Strategist, Private Jet Charter Broker

Freelance Consulting

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

November 2002 — August 2005 (2 years 10 months)

- Provided general business consulting to SMB market and being a private jet charter broker while architected and designed a real-time Private Jet Charter and Air Taxi GDS Automation. Developed a business plan and financial projection to raise $5M to develop the technology platform – still an on-going endeavor.
Solutions Architect - Business Development Manager

Qwest Communications

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Q; Telecommunications industry)

March 2000 — September 2002 (2 years 7 months)

- Gather business requirements’ analysis, RFP/RFI proposal response and management.
- Perform business, user requirements gathering and analysis. Instrumental for establishing protocols and standard operating procedures within various delivery groups, identifying demarcation- points between stakeholders, product development, business modeling, identifying and conduct initial due-diligence on major vendors for strategic partnership and facilitate in creating marketing related collaterals.
- Provide e-Business Process Consulting for internal and external clients.
- Global 2000 Companies portfolio includes; Bausch & Lomb company, Bank of New York, Anheuser Busch, Brylane, Columbia House, Comedy Central, Swatch, MetLife, Heidelberg, IBM, Sony, EMI Music, Louis Vuitton, Liz Claiborne, Deutsch Bank, Merrill Lynch, etc.
Material Science Process Engineer

Hewlett-Packard Laboratories

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Computer Software industry)

September 1992 — February 2000 (7 years 6 months)

- Establish goals, objectives, and policies. Develop and implement programs to ensure process efficacy of manufacturing Flat Panel Display devices, applications, market research trends and practices, cost analysis, price structuring, and capital equipment purchasing.
- Involved in life cycle process (new and continuous processes and automation) of wearable miniature display for Department of Defense application and LED -- technology transfer.
- Process engineering for various high-vacuum deposition of phosphor and thin film for EL, OLED, FED and Cathodoluminescence for Flat Panel Display applications.
- Co-author of paper submitted in Berlin Germany at the 1998 EL International Workshop.
- Designed vacuum deposition using multiple sputtering targets utilized for phosphor deposition on various Flat Panel Display applications with full-cycle systems integration.
- Patent lead author-designer of a Method for Fabricating Pixilated Polymer Organic Light Emitting Devices.
Process Application Engineer

Hoya Optics. Inc.

(Semiconductors industry)

February 1991 — March 1992 (1 year 2 months)

- High-Vacuum deposition of thin film, and supervision of optics division in a production environment.
- Produced $1.9 million a year in additional profits as a leader in the creation of Thin Film Department.
Sr. Process Application Technician

Newport Thin Film

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

July 1988 — December 1990 (2 years 6 months)

Additional Information

Elmer Alinsog’s Websites:

Elmer Alinsog’s Interests:

Travel 2.0 Technology Automation, Aggregation and Distribution

Elmer Alinsog’s Groups:

Aviation Professionals
Travel & IT Industry
GAMING & HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY PROFESSIONALS GROUP
Travel 2.0: Interactive Travel Industry Professionals
Tourism 2.0
THAT's Professional (Travel, Hospitality, Aviation & Tourism)
Airline Suppliers
Travel Technology Experts
Aviation IT
Online Travel Technology
OTA, Online Travel Agents, Travel Portal, Portals, GDS, IDS, CRS, RFP, Global, Internet Distribution