Kiel University

Agile Coach and Trainer at Deutsche Versicherungsakademie (DVA)

Stein-Experte

Ecommerce Business Owner

Deutsche Versicherungsakademie (DVA)

Agile Coach and Trainer

Scrum Coach
Kanban Coach
Agile Project Manager

Freelancing (Self Employed)

Agile Methods Coach and Agile Project Manager

Multi Project Management with Web Trading, Infrastructur, Online Brokerage

Repsonsibility for a bunch of projects

- Implementation of new trading functionality
- Implementaion of new infrastructure
- Integration of brokers

Onvista Bank AG

Senior Project Manager

Project Management
Programm Management
Scrum Master

Global Investment Bank

Freelancing Senior Project Manager

Multi Project Management with Software Developement, Interface Building, Technical Infrastructure, Valutation Infrastructure, Grid Computing

Repsonsibility for a bunch of projects

- Implementation of new interfaces
- Implementaion of new valuation architecture / Grid computing
- Behavioral risk computation
- Test management

DZ BANK AG

Senior Project Manger / Programm Manager / Business Analyst

Multi Project Management with Software Developement, Infrastructure, Order Systems

project responsibility for a bunch of projects
•	project budget responsibility 1,5 Mio EUR
•	project management according to CMMI principles
•	coordination of different project teams
•	communication to project board
•	coordination of test activities
•	negotiation of SLAs, contracts with software vendors, market data providers and infrastructure providers

projects
•	Introduction of a web call back mechanism
•	Change of a data modelling tool 
•	Enhancement of the network infrastructure 
•	Enhancement of data recovery systems 
•	Introduction of Windows 7 client platform

comdirect bank AG

Senior Multi Project Manager

project responsibility for multi project  ‚Ultra Low Latency Trading’ of trading desk “Delta Equity One”
• project budget responsibility: 3,5 Mio. EUR
• coordination of project managers
• coordination of development team 
• communication to project board
• coordination of test activities:  Front Arena, SOKOMA, BSP, UBIX, TREMA
• negotiation of SLAs, contracts with software vendors, market data providern and infrastructure providers
• negotiation of membership with connected exchanges
• implementation of new products via new product process ( NPP ) 

project tasks 
• connection of exchanges SIX, ÖTOB and Borsa Italiana with native adapters
• development of market making platform for trading & quoting
o proprietary quoter & order router
o autohedger
o position keeper 
o trade collector
o market data server
• optimization of the technical infrastructure
o availability
o stability
o efficency
• implementation of the order routing platform  “Reuters Order Routing / Tradepoint / RTEx”
• implementation of TradeLink connection
• process optimization
• feasibility studies for connection of LSE, CHI-X and EuroNext
• implementation of News Server / Alphaflash / Eurex / Xetra Releases

DekaBank

Senior Project / Programm Manager / Business Analyst

Tasks
- Project Management
- ISTQB Certified Tester
- Programming AEL functions and ASQL Queries 
- Performancetuning
- Testmanagement
- Front Arena Support

activities	
team lead of the Front Arena Development

integration project *Interface for SAP loans'
project management
technical and integration conception 
test conception and realisation for the systems SAP, FERMAT / ALM,  Front Arena
quality assurance
problem- und changemanagement

integration project *Portfolio separation for public finance'
project management
business conception 
test conception and realisation

Commerzbank AG

Senior Expert Trading Systems

Tasks
- Programming AEL functions and ASQL Queries 
- Introduction of Equity Index Derivatives with PRIME 3.0.1
- Migration of several Asset classes to Summit
- Test organisation and concept writing, test organisation
- technical analysis of implementation projects
- Migration of several Asset classes to Front Arena
- Front Arena Support 

migration project *Summit EH'
technical conception of position separation
test conception and realisation 
technical analysis and migration

migration project *ZGT Migration'
technical conception of reconciliation and market data upload 
technical analysis 
project coordination
test conception and realisation 

migration project *Hypothekenbank Essen integration'
test management 
project coordination
technical analysis 

project *Introduction of SBA Pool transactions' 
technical conception 
test conception and realisation 
introduction in production

project *PGFM Position separation'
technical conception of position separation
test conception and realisation 
going live planning
conception of pre - studies for Front Arena Release Upgrades
conception of pre - studies for introduction of Equity Futures and Bondindices
software development with AEL/ASQL
technical support 




technology	Front Arena AEL, Front Arena ASQL, Front Arena Prime

Eurohypo AG

activities	
project Murex introduction "Connection of modelserver-libraries" 
Creation of a C++ - Library for connection to MxG2000 3.x
serialization and deserialization of business objects with Boost serialization algorithms
introspection and reflection of business objects
boost unit test class creation
software development and programming 
XML Serialization 
XML Archive Building
Technical Documentation
Objcect Modelling
Interface Building with Murex MXML
Risk Factors/Products CDS,IDS, CDOs 

technology	C++, Subversion SVN Repository, Eclipse 3.2.2, Make
Compiler: GCC-XML 0.6.0, GCC 3.4.6
Libraries: Boost 1.33.1, Quantlib 0.8.1, Reflex 5.08

HVB Systems

Project Basel II 'Interest and Liquidity Management'

- testing and documentation
- bug- and changemanagement
- reconciliation Cashver/Kondor+
- project management
- implmentation ‚Reuters ALM Tool’
- programming:
    Reuters Kondor+ Stored Procedures
    Reuters DealGen
    Perl
    Oracle procedures

Sachsen LB

Senior Application Expert

activities	business consulting project "introduction of a risk management system" 
business conception and creation of a pre - study

MPC Capital Concepts / MPC Capital AG

activities	key account management
business analysis and system analysis
business and technical conception  
support of the trading system Digitec D3	

technologies	Sybase Transact SQL, Sybase Stored Procedures

Digitec GmbH

- Java 5.0 Programming
- Examan SCJP 5.0 archieved
- AWT, Swing, Generics, aso.

GFN Training Center

SCJP Java 5.0 Programming Specialist

activities	equity sales project &quot;depot-a tool for savings banks&quot;
programming of C++ software with the Sophis Toolkit 4.5 
business and technical conception 
application support of the trading systems Sophis Risque 4.5 and MxG2000	

technologies	Visual C++, Sophis Toolkit, PL/SQL

HSH Nordbank

Senior Specialist Trading Systems

activities	programming of applications with scripting language AVS
functional and technical conception
application support of the trading system Endur Openlink 7.0
technologies: Openlink AVS, Sybase Stored Procedures

Vattenfall Trading System Services

IT Trading System Specialist

activities	introduction of a real-time interface Eurex/Xetra - Sophis Risque for shares and stock exchange derivative products 
budget planning and project responsibility
technical conception and test conception 
database migration of the trading system MxG2000 to Sybase 12.5 
technical conception and test conception
emergency and recovery conception
introduction of new structured capital market products in Sophis Risque 
product definition 
budgeting of the conversion costs 
process optimization with the business units in front/middle /backoffice 
test coordination and -execution, integration test 
communication with the software vendors Sophis and Murex
application support of the trading systems Sophis Risque and MxG2000	

technologies	PL/SQL, C++; time	11/2004 bis 02/2005

Senior Application Specialist for Trading Systems

activities	project *introduction of the trading system Sophis Risque for Equity Derivatives' 
programming of an C++-interface for reconciliation between Sophis Risque and Kondor+ 
PL/SQL programming of the Value of Risk - reporting 
project *SAP Sem Profitanalyzer' 
functional and technical conception 
programming of the valuation data interface between Kondor+ and SAP SEM with Sybase SQL and Awk 
project *FX-migration', task *migration of the trading limits from Devon to Kondor+' 
functional and technical conception 
programming of the migration interface with Sybase SQL and Awk 
integration an functional test 
migration	

technologies	Transact SQL, Awk, Unix-Shell-scripting

Specialist Trading Systems

Implementation of the Trading System MxG2000' 	

activities	project and budget responsibility
release upgrade 
functional software test
upgrade of the trading system Currency+ 1.16 to MxG2000 
business data migration 
process analysis 
conception of technical and migration concept 
programming of the migration interface with Sybase SQL and Awk 
integration test 
technical migration
implementation of the processes for Front Office, Back Office and Middle Office 
training of the operational units 
set up of the end of day reporting 
creation of the reporting for profit and loss and market risk 	

technologies	Transact SQL, Awk, Unix-Shell-scripting

Project Manager

introduction of trading system Sophis Risque for front/middle/back office, risk management and legal reporting
- project management: introduction of trading system MxG2000
- trading system support of Kondor+, Reuters Global Limits, Sophis Risque 4.5/5.0 and MxG2000
- coordination of implemenation of financial innovations of HSH Nordbank
- business specification
- prgramming with C++, PL/SQL, Transact SQL, Kondor+ Stored Procedures

Senior Application Specialist

- Trading system support of Front Arena Atlas
- trader helpdesk for bond, equity, credit trading
- ASQL/AEL Programming
- business specification

Karsten Schulze