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Farid Mehovic – Sr. Manager, Consultant, Data Warehousing, Information Technology Farid Mehovic _______________________________________________________________________ Highly motivated and well-rounded management and information technology professional. A unique combination of motivating management talent and in-depth knowledge of information technology. Able to leverage advanced computer technology for strategic and tactical business benefits. Focused on enabling business growth through competitive advantage and new market opportunities. Capable of bringing about a substantial benefit to the organization as a mid-to-executive level manager in information technology. Experience: director-level manager, data warehousing and information technology expert, project manager, system architect, expert in large and operational database technology, database and database application design, IT strategy. Skills _______________________________________________________________________ Years of Experience Functional 12 years of Management 20 years of Information Technology Development Database Systems Management Performance Project Management Senior Management Airline CRS & Fares Strategic Leadership Teaching Business Intelligence Data Warehousing Government 18 16 12 9 9 6 5 5 5 5 5 5 Technical Open Systems Relational Client/server Windows AIX RS/6000, pSeries Solaris DB2/AIX ESE Object-oriented Oracle Informix SQL Server 14 14 12 12 10 9 5 5 5 4 3 2 Employment _______________________________________________________________________ EntrePro (6 yrs) Leading Voice Mail Delivery Company, CA, 3/05 to 5/06 – EntrePro Corp. contract Consultant, Chief Architect, Sr. Manager 3/05 to 5/06 1 year Developed IT platform strategy and critical platform components, end-to-end, for a leading vendor in the area of voice mail broadcasting. Managed a team of eight developers and managers between San Diego, Toronto, and Dallas. The system provides a Web interface, robust data processing module, critical data security, and campaign management and accounting modules. Performed database administration and design. Technology: operational database, relational, object-relational, client/server, PC, Windows 2000, XP, SQL Server 2000, IIS, VS .NET, SQL, DOS, ASP.NET, C#. HSBC Auto Finance, San Diego CA, 3/04 to 3/05 Sr. Manager 3/04 to 3/05 1 year HSBC is the third largest banking and financial services organization in the world. As the Head of the Information Management Department (Auto Finance Business Intelligence and Data Warehousing), managed a group of 41 information analysts, developers, and managers between San Diego, Chicago, Tampa, and Bangalore in providing business intelligence services to the Auto Finance business unit of HSBC. Organized the support for the business through Decision Support, Data Support, Data Quality, and Corporate Initiatives groups, reporting to me. Special emphases placed on data quality, which can achieve differentiation in the marketplace in the aspect of information reliability, a critical aspect in all industries, but especially in banking and finance. In the short time span improved the efficiency of the group to 30 projects a month and 60 concurrent ongoing ETL and reporting processes. Supported all functional areas of the business, including finance, risk, marketing, sales, credit and funding, and collections. Proposed corporate-wide configuration and architecture for the new business intelligence platform: massively parallel, multi-terabyte system. Technology: business intelligence, data warehousing, relational, object-relational, federated, client/server, massively parallel, pSeries, Sun E10000, PC, AIX, Solaris, NT, Windows 2003, XP, DB2/AIX ESE, Oracle, SQL Server, SQL, Unix shell, C, ERwin, Cognos Transformer, Power Play. 1 of 3 05/05/17 Farid Mehovic – Sr. Manager, Consultant, Data Warehousing, Information Technology EntrePro State of Illinois, Springfield IL, 4/99 to 6/03 -- EntrePro Corporation contract Data Warehouse, Chief Architect, Consultant 4/99 to 6/03 4 years Planned, specified platform, designed, and implemented a 19-node AIX SP2 Department of Human Services Data Warehouse system and created data management evolution strategy. In addition to the technical leader role, performed many roles of the Senior Data Warehouse Manager, such as data warehouse planning, project management, building the data warehouse department, interacting with the user groups. Technology: business intelligence, data warehousing, relational, object-relational, federated, client/server, massively parallel, SP2, RS/6000, PC, AIX, NT, DB2/6000 EE, EEE, SQL, Unix shell, C, ERwin, Cognos Transformer, Power Play, DB2 OLAP Server, Warehouse Manager, Vality Integrity (now Ascential QualityStage). EntrePro Corporation, San Diego CA, 7/03 to 2/04 – EntrePro Development President, Chief Architect 7/03 to 2/04 1 year Managed a team of 4 developers. Developed a record matching tool, a competing product to QualityStage, with a team of 4 entrepreneurs. Technology: data warehousing, relational, object-relational, federated, client/server, RS/6000, PC, AIX, Linux, XP, DB2/6000 ESE, WebSphere, SQL, Unix shell, C. The SABRE Group, Dallas TX, 8/98 to 8/99 -- EntrePro Corporation contract Chief Architect, Consultant 8/98 to 8/99 1 year Led technical implementation of Sirena-3 Offline Fares Management., with a team of 6 developers. Also performed roles of Development Manager through project planning, recruiting, and project execution oversight. Achieved 75% profitability for the project, assuring overall success of the larger outsourcing initiative. Placed the system in the framework of SABRE's product line. Generalized and enhanced product to meet future customers' demands. Technology: relational, object-relational, client/server, objectoriented, RS/6000, PC, AIX, NT, DB2/6000, SQL, Unix shell, SCCS, C, C++, VB. AMR (4 yrs) The SABRE Group, Dallas TX, 10/94 to 7/98 Manager, Chief Architect, 9/96 to 7/98 2 years Managed a team of 8 developers. Designed and led technical implementation of Sirena3 Offline Fares Management, a multi-million dollar project, from planning to production. Used relational and open systems platform. Enhanced productivity and shortened development time by implementing several software generation tools. Technology: relational, object-relational, client/server, object-oriented, SMP, RAID, RS/6000, Sparc 1000, PC, AIX, Solaris, NT, Informix ODS, DB2/6000, SQL, Unix shell, SCCS, RCS, Perl, ESQL/C, ESQL/C++, C, C++, VB. Manager, Chief Architect, Project Manager 12/95 to 8/96 1 year Developed Airline Fares Offline and Pricing System prototype. Utilized objectrelational and open systems platform, with Informix Universal Server. Managed a team of 8 researchers and developers. Technology: relational, object-relational, client/server, object-oriented, SMP, RAID, Sparc 1000, PC, AIX, Solaris, Windows 95/NT, Informix IUS, SQL, Unix shell, RCS, ESQL/C, C. Manager, Systems Architect, Project Manager 10/94 to 11/95 1 year Managed a team of 5 programmers. Proposed strategic and tactical changes in the SABRE Reservation System computer platform that will ensure the corporation's competitive advantage and enable new major business opportunities in travel industry. The proposal was backed by prototypes which proved functional and performance feasibility of the platform and fast time to market. Proposed distributed multi-layer AMR Information System Architecture and the Migration Path. Benchmarked high-transaction rate (700 TPS) and very large database (300 GB) airline reservation system. Earned 1995 Circle of Gold award given to top 2% company's performers, out of 2400 employees. Filed 3 patents in the area of data management. Technology: distributed, relational, client/server, object-oriented, modeling, 64-bit, VLDB, VLM, cluster, SMP, RAID, Sparc 1000, Alpha 2100/8400, PC, AIX, Solaris, Digital Unix, OSF/1, Windows, Oracle, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Unix shell, ESQL/C, C. 2 of 3 05/05/17 Farid Mehovic – Sr. Manager, Consultant, Data Warehousing, Information Technology IBM (4 yrs) Software Solutions Division, Dallas TX, 1/91 to 9/94 Systems Performance Analyst 4 years Redesigned databases of several products, resulting in multifold improvement of response time and capacity. Developed and implemented an office performance model used for product capacity planning. Led Laboratory’s performance process and substantially shortened the product development cycle time. Received several achievement awards. Technology: relational, mainframes, PC, LANs, MVS, OS/2, Windows, DB2/MVS, DB2/2, SQL, Rexx, C. Education _______________________________________________________________________ UCLA Computer Science Department, Los Angeles, CA, March 1989 Ph.D. in C.S. 3 years Dissertation title: Performance Modeling of Database Concurrency Control. Chairman: Leonard Kleinrock. UCLA Computer Science Department, Los Angeles, CA, December 1985 M.S. in C.S. 1 year Database Systems. Thesis title: Design and Implementation of an Online Service. Univ of Sarajevo School of Electrical Engineering, Bosnia, October 1983 Electrical Engineer 4 years Diploma work title: Design and Implementation of a Text Editor. Publications _______________________________________________________________________ 1. F. Mehovic, M. Kantardzic: "Program Package for Statistical Analysis of Multidimensional Tables," International Symposium Jahorina 80, Sarajevo, March 1980. 2. M. Kantardzic, F. Mehovic, S. Kovacevic: "INDOS: Interactive General Purpose Document Handling System Implemented on Minicomputer," Praksa, Yugoslav Journal for Informatics, Year XV, No. 11, November 1980. 3. M. Kantardzic, F. Mehovic, S. Kovacevic: "Performance Evaluation of Software Packet for Retrieval: INDOS," International Symposium Jahorina 81, Sarajevo, March 1981. 4. F. Mehovic, M. Kantardzic, S. Kovacevic: "Implementation of Inverted Lists in Document Handling System INDOS," International Symposium Cavtat 81, September 1981. 5. S. Alagic, M. Kandic, F. Mehovic, D. Jurkovic: "EQUAL: Language Specification and Application Guide," Institute for Control and Computer Science Technical Report, Sarajevo, 1985. 6. F. Mehovic: "Design and Implementation of TeleWeb On-line System," M.S. Thesis, UCLA, December 1985. 7. A. Barber, F. Mehovic: "Information System of UCLA," International Seminar University Today, Dubrovnik, August 1986. 8. F. Mehovic: "Performance Modeling of Concurrency Control," Ph.D. Dissertation, UCLA, Computer Science Department Technical Report CSD-890011, March 1989. L. Kleinrock, F. Mehovic: "Poisson Winner Queues," Performance Evaluation, 14, pp. 79-101, 1992. 9. Contact _______________________________________________________________________ Address: EntrePro Corporation, P.O. Box 1393, La Jolla, CA 92038 Telephone: 858-551-4224 office, 858-551-4024 fax [email protected] 3 of 3 05/05/17