Blair and Associates welcomes Senior Consultant Brian Rogers and IT Systems Development Manager Ramy Nahhas

Beginning in December 2007, Brian Rogers and Ramy Nahhas join Blair and Associates.

Brian has an exceptional background in IT management and consulting for both providers and recipients of IT services. He has done major work consolidating and managing data centers. These days, his interests are ITIL (international IT service management standard) and CobiT (standard for IT governance and audit).

Ramy has built a career in project management on a strong basis of technical skills. Much of his work has been in the banking industry, as Technical Operations Manager for BankWare and a Meta Group consultant involved with banks and government agencies in the Middle East. Ramy is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP).
 

"A project cannot be 'closed' until the team gathers for a look-back at the project experience. You were mentioned as one of the team’s success factors. Thank you again for your work." - Project Manager
 

The job was presented as a database project, but Dr. Heumann soon found that the problem was actually workflow integration. He interviewed people in all major areas of the company, mapped the core business process, and recommended four priority areas for automation. [more...]

"It was what we needed: a way to go forward." - Jean Falk, President, Ozark Regional Arts Council
 

The purpose of the conference was to guide FCAC through the process of defining its vision, goals, and strategies. What the group needed was help in focusing their energies on providing arts access to the people of north central Arkansas and south central Missouri. [more...]

The assessment began in March 2005, with demographic research conducted by Senior Consultant Dr. Mark Heumann. After identifying FCAC's likely service area--Baxter and Marion counties in Arkansas, Ozark county in Missouri, and parts of other counties--Dr. Heumann described the population in terms of age, education, income, residence, and lifestyle, and the region's prospects for growth. [more...]