CADJPro Payroll Solutions | A Fearless Leader | Garcia Hanson-Francis

Garcia Hanson-Francis

CEO

Garcia Hanson-Francis is the owner of CADJPro Payroll Solutions. A business payroll, virtual outsourcing, and bookkeeping business. Garcia recently joined BACD’s Expert Network, and as such, we want to share their expertise with you. Her qualities include problem-solving, proficiency with industry software, communication with clients and employees.

“Most people don’t know that I work behind the scenes like a back-office person and that gives the idea that I am not upfront and pushy and sometimes business owners see that as a setback to do work with me.  decision,” says Garcia.

I am passionate about payroll and I enjoy connecting with all businesses but I won’t push to make a decision,” says Garcia.

Garcia has spent over a decade in the industry, perfecting her skills and understanding the intricacies of small business pay before launching a business of her own. CADJPro strictly operates under Canadian payroll laws to ensure accuracy and reliability, and proper certification is key when hiring our payroll professionals. The company is a privately owned, female-run business to help other businesses run smoothly and efficiently through virtual payroll.

According to Garcia, “It is a fundamental human right that every single person gets paid properly for their hard work.

 

From over a decade of experience working in human resources, payroll, benefits, and accounting, I have seen time and time again the importance of both the trust between employee and employer and the necessity for a smooth payment process within a company.

A trusting and efficient work environment is critical for any functioning business.

That’s where the idea of CADJPro came from.

At CADJPro, we value honesty, tolerance, and transparency between every client and employee. They have a vision for unproblematic and error-free payroll systems that help businesses operate as usual by offering virtual outsourcing and constant contact.

From helping small businesses get off the ground to supporting female entrepreneurs, we are dedicated to strengthening the trust between employer and employee while implementing a stress-free payment process.

Payroll doesn’t have to be hard; reach out to my experienced team of passionate helpers to ensure that your business runs smoothly.”

Overcoming Barriers & Becoming a Mentor

Garcia had to overcome numerous obstacles to culminate into today’s leader. From financial support, balancing responsibilities, inadequate support system, timidity- shy about touting her accomplishment and being afraid of being labeled as proud and boastful! But she successfully overcame them and made a mark in the industry.

“I participate in mentoring women who are in up-and-coming business, I celebrate and acknowledge other female owners accomplishments and I help other female owners to get started with their business. I also buy products made by women to help financially,” explains Garcia. “I acknowledge their strengths and potential contributions. Wherever I see weakness I work with team members to empower them and help them grow away from the weakness.”

The steadfast leader is still looking for ways to be more successful. It took years for her to go to school, work for different organizations, and participate in workshops to understand failures. “Advice to share is don’t give up, it looks hard and no one can stop you but God and yourself. You are who you make yourself to be, not what others think or say about you,” elucidates Garcia. Armed with this willpower, she has taken the company to new heights.

Providing Exceptional Services

CADJPro helps business owners maneuver the economic complexities of running payroll and remain compliant while avoiding the intricacies involved. Their focus is to provide a positive experience, error-free payroll, thereby allowing organizations to focus on what they do best!

CADJPRO’s core values are Efficiency, Reliability, and Accuracy. They want to make sure your employees are paid correctly and on time, every time. Their clients tell CADJPRO that they “take care of it.” They are reliable, and their expert team is known for being accurate – a crucial factor in payroll!

When clients outsource to CADJPro Payroll Solutions, they take the right step to reduce processing, minimize payroll errors and streamline their operational processes.

The company provides a positive experience, error-free payroll, allowing organizations to focus on their day-to-day business and enjoy fewer employee complaints about incorrect payroll. They take pride in their work. “We analyze every client’s situation and see what stage they are at, and we don’t just set up their payroll and leave them. Before every pay run authorization is done to triple check any known errors. To provide error free payroll, we don’t try to be right, we apply the rules and we assess and we follow up,” adds Garcia.

Payroll processing requires professional payroll experts and their time which can be very costly. CADJPro Payroll Solutions allows clients to keep their current software or implement a new system and manage their payroll virtually. CADJPro allows organizations to bring their administrative payroll task through an agreement while the company can stay fully operational in the ever-changing “expanding economy.”

The services being offered include:

  • Virtual Payroll Outsourcing
  • Employee Benefits
  • HR Services
  • Year-End & Personal Services
  • Workers Compensation

When clients outsource to CADJPro payroll, you take the right step to reduce processing, minimize payroll errors and streamline their operational processes. Outsourcing services include:

  • Setting up new hires, Terminations, Leave of Absence, etc.
  • Direct Deposit and electronic pay statements for employees
  • Payroll calculations, cheque printing, remittances to external agencies and delivery of client reports
  • Processing of Federal/ Support payments, external garnishment and remittance to third party vendors
  • Management report processing
  • General Ledger uploads and payroll account reconciliations
  • Administration of rejected and replacement cheques, stop payment procedures and earning & deduction codes update

They provide many cycles and year-end services once the payroll is processed. These services include:

  • Full online access to your payroll software, EFT deposits, custom & standardized reports and service charges
  • Payroll register displaying employee earnings & deduction breakdown
  • Job Costing report if applicable
  • Payroll Processing calendar
  • Remittance details for employee and employer taxes to be remitted
  • Payroll Audit Administration if applicable

Year-End Services

  • Pension Adjustments
  • T4’s and RL’s
  • WSIB, CSST, EHT reconciliation

Benefit Services

  • Process and maintain employee benefit coverage changes
  • Administer applicable payroll deductions
  • Monthly Billing payment submission to vendor
  • Employee benefits analysis quotes

For the company, the biggest achievement has been winning the award for payroll ByBlacks in the accounting category and being recognized as a company that spends the time to volunteer and help out in the community.

For the company’s future, Garcia plans to launch more automated services, grow the client base and hire more employees. “As for myself I plan to focus on building a great team, grow more educationally and empower females.”

The Unique Solutions

The company offers powerful Systems on Chips (SoCs) and a software suite for creating customized solutions. And the current flagship is HyperX Midnight, a radiation-hardened supercomputer class SoC designed for use in LEO, MEO, and GEO (low-, middle-, and geosynchronous earth orbit) satellites.

HyperX Midnight, soon after its release, became the most advanced space processor available, with roughly four times the computing throughput at half the power demand of competitive chips.

“This is a significant step, as performance and power consumption control the magnitude of a satellite. We put enormous performance in a small package with low power obligations, so our customers can use much smaller satellite busses (chassis) which conserves millions in launch budgets,” says Walt. Another key feature of Coherent’s HyperX multi-chip modules compared to its competitors is that its chips are C-programmable and use familiar tools and debugging processes. “The solutions can be built on our chip in about 6 months whereas competitive FPGA offerings usually require 24 months of development time using complex hardware development languages and a very difficult process called timing closure,” he adds.

Coherent Logix’s SoCs are also completely reprogrammable, even in space, and can modify tasks in less than 50ns (nanoseconds). These two elements combine to create a huge advantage. Coherent Logix can make four products in the time our competitors take to build just one, and we can continuously enhance those products even if they are in orbit around the Earth.

These attributes herald back to Coherent Logix’s patented invention: the HyperX fabric. And this fabric is common to all Coherent Logix’ chips – both Space-qualified and terrestrial – so these advantages are available whether users are building a satellite, 5G cellular, secure networks, AI platforms, or 8K video encoders. Coherent Logix has served the Space 2.0 and Defense markets for 15 years. High-performance computing (HPC) with low power draw, on-orbit programmability, and ease of modular multimodal MCM design are the keys to success in these markets according to Walt.

The Leader who Makes the Difference

Walt Gall, Ph.D. serves as CEO on Coherent Logix’s executive management team. He is a business leader who builds world-class AI teams, products, and strategic partnerships for top-tier start-ups (Saffron, Intel acquisition) and large corporations (Amazon Devices, Meta (formerly FB).

As CEO of Coherent Logix, the leader in low-power, high-performance C- programmable processors for the embedded systems market, he recently helped guide the company through a funding initiative that raised $85 million.

Under Walt’s leadership, in early 2023 Coherent Logix launched HyperX Midnight, the world’s most advanced space processor, with roughly four times the computing throughput at half the power demand of competitive chips. Coherent Logix is currently in its fourth generation of HyperX processors for Space 2.0 and Defense, Connected Devices, and Media & Communications industries. The company has been granted more than 375 patents and 125 patents are pending.

Over the past decade, Walt has held various leadership roles on executive teams, including Amazon Alexa AI, Meta’s AR/VR and AI divisions, and Intel AI, with responsibilities for annual operational planning, developing a 3-year strategy, and managing more than $500M R&D and production budgets. He led product launches on conversational AI voice assistants on industry-leading consumer and social media devices with cloud-to-edge embedded applications and the development of several enterprise decision-support AI/IOT solutions in wellness, health, hi-tech, and insurance sectors.

Walt’s leadership style is centered on the customer and making data-informed, timely decisions. This customer-centric team approach is critical as the company scales its products and continues to expand its channel partnerships. “I’m referring to our direct customers and strategic partners, our leadership team and employees, and our Board of Directors,” he adds. “We have a collective interest in growing revenue and partnering on developing and commercializing products that have a meaningful impact on society.”

Armed with this mindset, Walt and the rest of the leadership team have skillfully guided Coherent Logix into hypergrowth markets: Space 2.0, cybersecurity, connected devices, media and communications.

Towards the Future

Coherent Logix is adding a cloud-based capability for new customers, universities, and the Maker/open-source community to work with their development tools and hardware. With older von Neumann microprocessor architecture designs and today’s programmable hardware, the software development process is so tedious that it can take 24-36 months for a customer to develop a solution e.g., a WiFi router. Coherent Logix microprocessors, however, have C-programmability and use standard software development processes. They also offer a cycle-accurate simulation platform. These advantages enable Coherent Logix to build solutions in just six months and continue to reprogram or reconfigure as needed to support their product and customer roadmaps with new software-defined functions or as standards evolve. This, combined with the hardware/software co-design process the company uses to build their System on Chips (SoCs), brings the power of digital transformation to the design and use of digital processors – amplifying both the pace of innovation and the competitive advantages of Coherent Logix.

For the near future, Walt is striving towards building highly functioning, distributed teams to bring the most disruptive products to market he has worked on, i.e., a new class of low-power, reprogrammable, high-performance computing devices. Coherent Logix is enabling customers to “redefine hardware as software” (which is also the company’s tagline) to meet the market demand for the flexibility, extensibility, and scalability of software-defined hardware systems and their small SWaP requirements, ranging from space satellites to consumer devices. Coherent Logix’s HyperX architecture provides a paradigm shift in hardware-software co-design from embedded systems to the cloud and delivers a more cost-effective and scalable software-defined device strategy. With its compute and memory co-localized, an event-oriented, parallel processing fabric, low power profile, and C-programmability, this has a 2-4x improvement in the time it takes to develop and launch products. This multi-faceted value proposition extends product customer lifetime value economic models, increasing the ROI for its ODM and OEM partners and customers. Accomplishing these product revenue growths and customer-centric goals will lead naturally to the longer-term goal of positioning Coherent Logix for a successful market exit for its shareholders.

“The future requires low-power, high performance computing for next generation connected devices – it will be everywhere we find a sensor, a camera, a robot, or smart device. As large as the Space 2.0 revolution is, the terrestrial edge and embedded devices will eclipse it by orders of magnitude,” concludes Walt. “We must be as efficient with power as possible. It has a cost to our planet to produce, and it turns into heat when you use it. If we want to preserve our planet, smart everything must become smart, efficient everything.”

" I am passionate about payroll and I enjoy connecting with all businesses but I won’t push to make a decision. "

Garcia Hanson-Francis

CEO