Meet the BookingCenter Team

Jeff Tweddale co–founded BookingCenter, enabling it to rapidly become a leading online reservations solution for the travel industry. Prior to founding BookingCenter, Jeff created the The InternetCorps to deliver innovative e-commerce and e-marketing solutions to such market leaders as Sun Microsystems, Visa USA, and LaserLine. In the early days of the Internet, Jeff served as Product Manager for one of the first Internet businesses, America Online’s Global Network Navigator (GNN).

While there, he supervised the software development of AOL’s first internet programs (email, chat, publishing, etc) while overseeing the service’s Web community of more than 300,000 users.

Jeff also served as Technical Consultant and Developer at AOL’s Consulting Services Group, leading the technical research, development, and implementation of a wide variety of new media projects for Fortune 500 clients.

He brings extensive multimedia, networking, and advertising experience to BookingCenter. Jeff holds a B.A. in Telecommunications from California State University at Chico and served in the US Peace Corps from 1991–1993.

Jeff is a  member of the Northern California Association of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, and a CASA volunteer. When he’s not building BookingCenter, Jeff is mountain biking, kayaking, skiing/snow/kiteboarding, or playing acoustic guitar.

Steve is co-founder of BookingCenter and heads the IT department.

As President of HTS Software (www.hts.com.au), an Australian software company, he brought over 18 years programming experience, presented software seminars to computer resellers, was manager of the Australian Apple Programmers and Developers Association for two years, and has worked extensively as a consultant.

Steve lives in Australia and believes life is simply too short for cheap wine 🙂

Dave is one the original members of BookingCenter, joining us after working in the design industry for 15 years.

As a top notch designer, he has worked most of his life to make things easier and more intuitive for the people that use them. This focus on the details, and the patience to get it right, have made Dave’s leadership in support operations and product management very effective.

He has worked on projects of all size and scope from the Tech Museum of Innovation to Mead – Office Products division, and most recently for Bell Sports, the market leader in innovative, protective gear. Dave has helped establish these companies as market leaders in their respective categories.

Dave graduated from San Jose State University with a BA in industrial design.

Dave has been an avid cyclist for most of his life and when he is not helping our customers you can most likely find him on his bike. He lives with his wife and three children to Bend, Oregon where the mountain biking is superb and he can snowboard on a volcano.

Jesse delivers systems management and QA dedication to our software and hardware systems. After working for 7 years with Jesse at our Co-Location facility, he became a Partner in BookingCenter.Prior experience includes customer support, LAN and WAN administration, network architecture, and hardware maintenance and repair.

Jason came to BookingCenter with a sales background in the supply chain management, technology and service industries.  Being in solution sales for over 15 years, he has consulted with fortune 500 executives, small business owners, and property managers on how to make their daily work environment and goals more manageable.

With a focus on operational efficiencies and his ability to help customers with technology, Jason has empowered BookingCenter Customers and Resellers to succeed in the global marketplace.

In his free time, Jason is out photographing with an empathetic eye the world around him.  He also enjoys playing soccer, golf, running in the hills and competing internationally as a highland snare drummer.

Jason graduated from Saint Mary’s College with a BA in Business Administration, and he  enjoys spending time with his children and wife in the San Francisco Bay Area