Drear Friends,
I am sorry to announce that Chris Redford just informed us of the sad news that our friend and former Sita Aircom colleague Ulf Hallmann unexpectedly passed away on 11 February. He was around 50 years old. Chris wrote about Ulf:
” He had been quite ill in his younger days requiring dialysis treatment but during his time in GVA his illness was in abeyance, although it appears only temporarily.
After GVA Aircom he moved back to his home country and worked for Airbus in Hamburg, but was working in the submarine electronics industry in that city when he died.
He was a well-liked member of the GVA Aircom team during 2002 / 03. He was an extremely clever technical guy but his constant humour, in English, hid the fact.
I have informed many of his ex-colleagues in the Aircom family, who have expressed shock and sent their condolences.”
About Jean-Michel Kaliszewski
I joined SITA Paris in June 1978 as an engineer in the Technical Studies department which was then managed by Georges Giraudbit. After developping planning tools for the HLN and later the DTN, I led the design and implementation of the new routing algorithm of the DTN. Later my team delivered the strategy and specification for migrating the network from airline specific protocols to open standards, and whichalso served for the RFP for the MTN. After working on developing projects for non-airline customers, I moved to SITA Geneva in 1999, in marketing and later fiance departments. In 2004 i left SITA to join IATA in Geneva. With IATA I first worked on launching and developing a new business based on providing credit card payment services to travel agencies. Then I moved to IT, in charge of all data management for successfully.implementing SAP at IATA. Once that project was over I joined the Cargo department at IATA, in charge of Technical developments. Having worked both at SITA and IATA has been a very unique experience for me!
