FARID MHEIRa visual resume

(514) 867-7720www.mheir.com

For 20 years I have been involved with technology, first in microelectronics, then with Internet eCommerce.

I am now an independent consultant, playing interim CTO roles in organizations, small and large alike.

I help business leaders understand technology and put it to use to deliver results.

For a large government ministry, my technical audit helped determine investment levels for a 10M$ BPM case management solution.

I try to see through technology and understand its pain points for users.

Aligning business and technology is most often the first issue I tackle.

I AM AN E-COMMERCE PIONEERFirst release in production of an e-commerce solution for IGA Canada to sell groceries on the web, in 1996.Released similar solutions for Shoprite (USA), Loblaws (Canada), Intermarché(France) and others

1996

Selling groceries online is difficult: low margins, 20-40 items per cart, repetitive buys, fulfillment (think “produce” or “ground beef”), etc.

If you make it there, you can make it anywhere...

E-COMMERCE EXPERIENCE PAYS

As a technology consulting professional, I have been involved with Standard & Poor’s to help put their market research in the hands of financial planners…

FINANCIAL INDUSTRY

…and was laureate for the 2004 Computerworld Smithsonian award.

With CGI, I spent 3 years as VP Enterprise Architecture with the National Bank of Canada.As part of the management team, my objective was to best deliver the value that IT outsourcing promised.

IT OUTSOURCING

I leverage software engineering frameworks and methodologies, like the Rational Unified Process, to manage projects and deliver them in an iterative fashion.Risks are lowered and progress is more visible.

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

I bridge business and technology using Business Process Management techniques, tools…

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT

… and reference models.

EA is now my specialty.

I leverage its frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman, to help define and model SOA and eCommerce solutions.

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE

I often start my work close to the trees…

… and use EA to rise, see the forest and deal with complexity.

I use visual diagrams and images to help make sense of complex issues or large datasets.

I learned to deal with complexity early on, as a microelectronics engineer.With only 9 months to design microchips containing 10 million + transistors, engineers must deal with complexity head on.

MICROELECTRONICS

Contact me and we will see how I can help you make sense of it all.

(514) 867-7720www.mheir.com