My professional resume - in a visual format. I have upudated this recently to be more visual http://bit.ly/1bb5uvc

1. FARID MHEIR
a visual resume
(514) 867-7720
www.mheir.com

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 1996
I AM AN E-COMMERCE PIONEER
First 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

6. E-COMMERCE
EXPERIENCE
PAYS
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...

7. FINANCIAL INDUSTRY
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…

8. …and was laureate for the
2004 Computerworld
Smithsonian award.

9. IT OUTSOURCING
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.

10. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
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.

11. BUSINESS
PROCESS
MANAGEMENT
I bridge business and
technology using Business
Process Management
techniques, tools…

12. … and reference models.

13. ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE
EA is now my specialty.
I leverage its frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman, to help define and
model SOA and eCommerce solutions.

14. I often start my work close to the trees…

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

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

17. MICROELECTRONICS
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.

18. Contact me and we will see how I can help you make sense of it all.
(514) 867-7720
www.mheir.com