Beginning of September I have been travelling with my wife in Southern France. This was an opportunity to say hello to Ruedi Bebie, a long time friend and colleague who lives in the nice city of St Remy de Provence. We went to a restaurant in St Remy and had a lot of exchanges, including of course memories and considerations about SITA and all the more lively as Cornel, Ruedi’s son, could also join us. Ruedi has now completed the donation of his collection of old scientific books, which also went to the Musée Berbard d’Agesci in Niort (France)which also holds his collection of scientific objects. Ruedi presented us the now printed version of the catalogue of these scientific objects. I went through this book with much pleasure: it is indeed a very beautiful publication and an interesting read with gorgeous photographs of scientific objects. The evening went on, focussing on another interesting collection, nice Rums which Cornel, with a warm smile, kindly offered us to taste at his place! A memorable moment in St Remy de Provence!
Ruedi and myself with the catologue of scientific objects of the Ruedi Bebie collection from the Bernard d’Agesci museum
Ruedi, Antoinette and Cornel
The catalogue of the Ruedi Bebie collection (you can order a copy of it from the Bernard d’Agesci museum)
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!
