Janice Graefe
Senior Business Systems Analyst

Janice Graefe is a senior systems consultant with extensive experience in the design, development and management of complex software projects. She has competence in the full range of multi-tier system technologies, including enterprise data modelling, business object services, and Windows/web-based user interfaces. Ms. Graefe has over 20 years of experience designing systems for major corporate clients, over ten of which were spent working in Europe and Mexico on electronic trading and back-office accounting systems for stock exchanges, brokerage firms, and other financial institutions.

Skills

• Business Analysis
• Business Process Re-engineering
• Project Management
• System Design
• User Interface Design & Development

Carl Paul
Senior Systems Architect

Carl Paul is a senior systems architect with over 20 years of experience in the financial services industry. Mr. Paul specializes in core enterprise technologies necessary for mission-critical and reliable messaging applications with special emphasis on Microsoft products such as the .NET framework, SQL Server, MSMQ and Web-Services. Mr. Paul has worked on a wide range of consulting assignments including ten years designing and building queue-driven wholesale funds transfer systems for New York money center banks.

Skills

• System Architecture
• Technical Leadership
• Project Management
• Business Services Connectivity
• Enterprise Integration Design

Clients / Projects
For the past 15 years, Carl Paul and Janice Graefe have collaborated as a consulting team to provide business and technical leadership on the following projects:

• Stockholm Stock Exchange (Stockholm, Sweden)
  Trading workstation for electronic market with real-time update of order books from message feed.
   
• Barcelona Stock Exchange (Barcelona, Spain)
  Institutional order routing system with simultaneous delivery of orders to broker firms and trading floor.
   
• Spanish Futures and Options Exchange (Barcelona, Spain)
  Derivatives portfolio management system distributed by exchange to member firms to post trades from real-time market feeds and generate daily electronic settlements to clients.
   
• Société Générale, Crédite Agricole, GAESCO (Madrid, Spain)
  Integrated back-office system developed as joint venture project for three retail securities firms to handle all brokerage functions, including interfaces to multiple markets, trade clearing and settlement, dividend and corporate action posting, cash and securities accounting, general ledger summaries, and customer reporting.
   
• Charles Schwab (San Francisco, CA)
  Mutual fund portfolio rebalancing and order generation system for Schwab institutional clients.
   
• Investor IQ (Irvine, CA)
  Subscription-based Web site providing independent research on technology and Internet stocks.
   
• Robeks Corporation (Manhattan Beach, CA)
  Enterprise-scale web site for quick-service restaurant chain and nutritional supplement provider. Functions include customer relationship management, rewards tracking, on-line product sales, and database-driven content management and publication.
   

Carl Paul and Janice Graefe have also provided independent consulting services for the following projects:

• Citibank, NA (New York, NY)
  Wholesale funds transfer systems. Separate systems provide real-time interfaces between CHIPS, Fedwire and SWIFT networks; linked into larger corporate network via reliable messaging queues.
   
• Chase Manhattan Bank, NA (New York, NY)
  Fedwire wholesale funds transfer system, linked into larger corporate network via reliable messaging queues.
   
• Swiss Bank Corp (New York, NC)
  CHIPS and SWIFT wholesale funds transfer system, linked into larger corporate network via reliable messaging queues.
   
• Casa de Bolsa Carlos Trouyet, S.A. (Mexico D.F., Mexico)
  Integrated brokerage management system for automating all aspects of firm's activities including trading, portfolio management, operations and accounting.
   
• Wells Fargo Bank, Trust Division (San Francisco, CA)
  Back-office stock brokerage system adopted to banking trust and fund management operations. Design of subsystems to handle processing of income and corporate actions, including complex tax lot accounting required for management of trust portfolios.
   
• Barclays Global Investors (San Francisco, CA)
  Analytical reporting module for third-party position reconciliation system based on data extracted from multiple stock record systems.
   
• VISA International (San Mateo, CA)
  Extranet system for status tracking of batch file transfers between mainframe processing centers.
   
• Jamba Juice Company (San Francisco, CA)
  Cash and sales management system for quick-service restaurant chain, with daily collection, auditing, and accounting of all store POS transactions.