Twin Trees, LLC

Doing IT Better in Hospitality

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IT Services and Consulting for the Hospitality Industry

Summary of Expertise

Background

• Twin Trees serves the hospitality industry with well-qualified personnel. Pean Lim (Principal) has 11 years experience in hotel IT with four- and five-star properties including six years as VP of IT with Kuala Lumpur-based Hotel Equatorial Management Sdn.Bhd. (www.equatorial.com). Other credentials include a solid technical underpinning (MIT BS & MS) and hospitality industry certification--CHTP (Certified Hospitality Technology Professional).
  
  
• Twin Trees actively participates in Seattle-area hospitality industry associations.
  
  
• Pean also has 11 years experience in software development.  TWINTREES.COM was registered in 1994.
  
  

Philosophy

• we favor loosely-coupled/modular systems over highly-integrated/monolithic ones, because:
  • modularity enables longer-lived, adaptable solutions
  • monolithic solutions create single-vendor dependencies

• we favor Open Source / Free Software where ever possible, because access to source code:
• allows for deeper understanding of system components
• enables longer-lived, adaptable solutions
• enables multi-platform solutions (Windows, MacOS, Linux)
• helps avoid vendor "lock-in"
  
  
• we understand that sometimes "less is more", therefore:
• we are wary of the "bleeding edge"
• we are mindful of end-to-end arguments in systems design

Associations

• Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) - Greater Puget Sound (Seatttle) Chapter - member since 2004; director '06/'07, '07/'08
  
• Washington State Hotel & Lodging Association (WSH&LA) - member since 2004
  
• Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) - member since 1988; Senior Member since 2008
  
• Engineering Honor Societies: Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, Chi Epsilon

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