eos Consulting LLC
Home About Us Practice Areas Contact Us 
> eos consulting   > about us   > our team   > craig murphy  
About Us Our Team Byron Winn John Murphy Hamed Omar Kim Patrick-Gerra
R. Craig Murphy

R. Craig Murphy

Craig Murphy has over 33 years experience in engineering and technology. His career encompasses a mix of senior technical positions and management positions, including senior management. He is a technically savvy thought leader capable of both strategic vision and project execution.

His leadership positions include:

  • CTO, Sabre Holdings, for 6 years – responsible for enterprise architecture, research, innovation, and overall technical strategy at Sabre
  • Senior Vice President, Sabre Applications Development, The Sabre Group (part of AMR), including the Next Generation Sabre project
  • Vice President of Infrastructure and Technology, Galileo International, including architecture & engineering, systems programming, database admin and research
  • Senior technical positions at United Airlines and Covia Partnership in systems architecture, systems engineering, software performance and capacity planning, and application development.

Major projects led by Craig include:

  • Led Sabre’s first true DR project, introducing hot-warm recovery with RTO = 12 hours, tested successfully
  • Led the creation of Sabre’s Integrated Computing Environment to replace legacy vertical system controls with distributed horizontal components on open systems supporting service-oriented architecture
  • Led a major offload of legacy technology to Linux and MySQL on Opteron boxes, cutting unit costs by over 90% in shopping and pricing functions at Sabre
  • Led the creation of customer-centric systems at Sabre to migrate passenger profiles and reservations from flat files to relational databases
  • Shifted availability and schedule processing at Covia from batch to real-time, significantly improving data updating capabilities, reducing a 20+ hour cycle to 45 minutes, with no degradation in real-time response time

Craig has a BSME from The University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in mineral economics from Colorado School of Mines. He is a Professional Engineer (now inactive), a certified Project Management Professional and a Certified Business Continuity Professional.