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E-mail: gratacos 'at' alumni.sims.berkeley.edu

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Professional Interests

I graduated from the School of Information Management and Systems at UC Berkeley in 2003. My main interests are XML vocabularies, business processes, B2B, and User Interface analysis. Currently I work as an XML Specialist at the International Swaps and Derivatives Association (ISDA) in New York. ISDA is the global trade association representing participants in the privately negotiated derivatives industry, a business covering swaps and options across all asset classes (interest rate, currency, commodity and energy, credit and equity). At ISDA, I am helping to develop FpML (Financial products Markup Language), the industry-standard XML vocabulary for complex financial products.

Prior to attending SIMS, I was a consultant at PriceWaterhouseCoopers Consulting, developing Siebel applications. I earned my undergraduate degree in Economics at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona.

Feel free to contact me at gratacos "at" alumni.sims.berkeley.edu.

Resume

Projects

(Coming soon) FpML and XMLBeans
(Coming soon) FpML support in native XML databases
(2006) XAC (Catalan Multimedia Network) from the i2cat Foundation, helping with XML technologies (XMLBeans and Schema)
(2004) FpML and Microsoft InfoPath (with Ira Fuchs, Microsoft) - Presented at the 2004 ISDA FpML Conference; issues with type substituion; my conference review
(2001-2003) Here is a list of projects I developed at SIMS, with a brief descriptions of each. They include work in areas such as Document Engineering and XML, Technology Strategy, User Interface Design and Evaluation, Business Processes, Systems Analysis and Design

Courses

Courses I am currently teaching in New York and London:

Courses I took:

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Last updated: June 2008