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, information technology expert, project
manager, system architect, expert in large and operational database
technology, database and database application design, IT strategy. 

Expertise

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Strategy

Strategic Business and Technology

Business/MIS

Business process analysis, MIS enhancements analysis, streamlining
business/MIS applications, new business opportunity evaluation, setting
MIS strategy and direction, MIS development / business intelligence
guidance, process performance troubleshooting.

Information Technology

Technology direction analysis, leveraging current customer base, IT
benefits analysis, IT direction planning, expansion/redirection of product
line, introduction of new IT products, product development guidance.

Skills

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Years of
Experience

7 years
of management
experience

20 years
of experience
in Information
Technology

Functional

18 Development
16 Database Systems
 9 Performance
 9 Project Management
 7 Management
 5 Airline CRS & Fares
 5 Strategic Leadership
 5 Teaching
 5 Business Intelligence
 5 Data Warehousing
 5 Government 

Technical

14 Open Systems
14 Relational
12 Client/server
12 Windows
12 AIX
 5 RS/6000, pSeries
 5 Solaris
 5 DB2/AIX EE, ESE Object-oriented
 4 Oracle                  
 2 SQL Server                                   

Employment
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EntrePro (6 yrs)

Leading Voice Mail Delivery Company, CA, 3/05 to present - EntrePro Corp. contract

Consultant,
Chief Architect
3/05 to present
1 year

Developed IT platform strategy and critical platform components,
end-to-end, for a leading vendor in the area of voice mail broadcasting.
The system provides a Web interface, robust data processing module,
critical data security, and campaign management and accounting modules.
Technology: operational database, relational, object-relational,
client/server, PC, Windows 2000, XP, SQL Server 2000, IIS, SQL, DOS
scripting, ASP.NET, C#.



EntrePro Corporation, San Diego CA, 7/03 to 2/04 -- EntrePro Corporation 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.





State of Illinois, Springfield IL, 4/99 to 6/03 -- EntrePro Corporation contract

IT Advisor,
Chief Architect,
Consultant
4/99 to 6/03
4 years

Advised on using object-relational technology in the implementation of the
Department of Human Services Data Warehouse. Lead the design, development,
and physical architecture of the 1.7 TB, 19 node SP2 system, and created
data management evolution strategy. 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).



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.
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, object-oriented, RS/6000, PC, AIX, NT, DB2/6000, SQL, Unix
shell, SCCS, C, C++, VB.

HSBC (1 yr)

Auto Finance, San Diego CA, 3/04 to 3/05

MIS Director
3/04 to 3/05
1 year

HSBC is the third largest banking and financial services organization in
the world. 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.

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 Sirena-3 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
object-relational 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, Unix shell, ESQL/C, C.

Univ of Dallas

Graduate School of Management, Dallas TX, 5/92 to 3/95

Adjunct Professor
3 years part time

Developed and taught a graduate-level database management systems course
for Information Systems Department. Technology: relational, RS/6000, AIX,
Oracle, SQL.

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

Thesis title: Design and Implementation of TeleWeb Online Service. 

Univ of Sarajevo

School of Electrical Engineering, Bosnia, October 1983

Electrical Engineer
4 years

Diploma work title: Design and Implementation of Text Editor D.I.P.S.Y. 


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. 
9. L. Kleinrock, F. Mehovic: "Poisson Winner Queues," Performance
Evaluation, 14, pp. 79-101, 1992.

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: mehovic@entrepro.com