Twin Trees, LLC

Doing IT Better in Hospitality

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IT Services and Consulting for the Hospitality Industry since 2006

Summary of Expertise

Background

• Twin Trees serves the hospitality industry with well-qualified personnel. Pean Lim (Principal; LinkedIn) has deep experience in hotel IT with four- and five-star properties including six years as VP of IT with Kuala Lumpur-based Hotel Equatorial Management S.B. (www.equatorial.com). Other credentials include a solid technical underpinning (MIT BS & MS) and hospitality industry IT certification (CHTP Emeritus attained in 2025).
  
  
• Twin Trees has broad experience in the Seattle-area hospitality industry.
  
  
• Pean also has 11 years experience in software development.
  

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 Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) whenever possible because access to source code:
  • allows for deeper understanding of system components
  • enables multi-vendor integrations and avoids vendor "lock-in"
  • enables longer-lived, adaptable solutions
  • enables multi-platform solutions (Windows, MacOS, GNU/Linux, Android)

• we understand that sometimes "less is more", therefore:
  • we are wary of the "bleeding edge"
  • we are more willing to trade-off "bells and whistles"
  • we are mindful of end-to-end arguments in systems design

Associations

• Hospitality Financial & Technology Professionals (HFTP) - 2004-2025
  • HITEC Advisory Council - 2010-2012
    
  • Greater Puget Sound (Seatttle) Chapter - 2004-2025; director 2006-2008; secretary 2017-2019
    
• 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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