Consulting Skills and Capabilities

Project Abstracts

Project: Transactional Website Design, Development and Implementation
Client: Fortress Financial Securities Corporation

Project Synopsis:

Start-up broker/dealer, specializing in self-directed 401k plans, required the design, development, and implementation of a website for retail investor clients and their client's employers offering the 401k plan. Performed the following consulting roles:

Project: Employee Stock Option Plan Processing Automation
Client: WR Hambrecht + Co, Corporate Services Division

Project Synopsis:

Hired by the employee services division of an investment bank to evaluate options to automate Employee Stock Option Plan and Employee Stock Purchase Plan account management and transaction functionality. Completed the following consulting services:

Project: Website "Single Sign-on" Project
Client: WR Hambrecht + Co, Technology Services

Project Synopsis:

Hired by the IT division of an investment bank to design and manage the development of a single sign-on web security system. Prior to the project, website functionality provided by different application service providers (ASPs) required customers to login using different user Ids and passwords. Performed the following consulting roles:

Project: Customer Compliance and Marketing Automation
Client: WR Hambrecht + Co, Retail Brokerage Division

Project Synopsis:

Hired by the Retail Brokerage division of an investment bank to complete the database design and applications development for a new system that would integrate with their existing clearing system. The application would allow them to complete quarterly compliance mailings for clients meeting defined compliance parameters (active traders, penny stock traders, etc.). It would also allow them to complete direct mailings and electronic mailings for various market segments of their account base. Completed the following consulting tasks:

Project: Retail Brokerage Applications Development for South American Markets
Client: Sanchez Computer Associates, Inc.

Project Synopsis:

Hired by a financial services software development company to manage the development of a new brokerage processing system for a broker/dealer specializing in South American and Latin American markets. Performed the following consulting tasks:

Project: Portfolio Accounting Applications Service Provider Interface Development
Client: WR Hambrecht + Co, Retail Brokerage Division

Project Synopsis:

Hired by the retail brokerage division of an investment bank to design and build an XML interface to a portfolio accounting application service provider (GainsKeeper). This XML interface transports the daily account position and transaction data necessary for the ASP to maintain tax lot accounting records and tax reporting records for the brokerage accounts. Performed the following consulting tasks:

Project: Integrated Underwriting, Policy Issuance, and Claims Management System Development
Client: Elite Underwriting Services, Inc.

Project Synopsis:

Hired by a Managing General Underwriter (MGU) providing front office underwriting, sold case, policy issuance, and claims management services for a stop-loss medical insurance product. This product is marketed to large corporations who self-insure their employee medical plans. The client needed to convert four "stove-piped" applications into one integrated system. Once the project was completed, the client was able to process 50% more policies each year without hiring additional staff.

Project: Web-based employee benefits eligibility, enrollment, and human resources management system
Client: The Elite Group, LLC

Project Synopsis:

Hired by a regional employee benefits broker to design, develop and implement a web-based employee benefits and human resources management system that they could sell to there employer clients. The system allows employees to manage their benefits, provides employers with access to employee information and government compliance reporting, and allows the benefits broker to administer the benefits programs.