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Farid Mehovic – Sr. Manager, Consultant, Data Warehousing, Information Technology
Farid Mehovic
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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Contact
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Address:
EntrePro Corporation, P.O. Box 1393, La Jolla, CA 92038
Telephone:
858-551-4224 office, 858-551-4024 fax
[email protected]
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