Brian Stroh Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Implemented dagster as Symetra's data orchestration system. -> Partnering with Data Management, analytics engineers, and actuaries to automate data workflows and ingesting data from various policy administration systems. -> Maintaining resources and deployment of new and existing data workflows -> Conceptualized and implemented system to allow for horizontal scaling of automated MG-ALFA and PolySystems models. -> In the first several months since its inception, this data orchestration system has already achieved massive operational efficiencies recognized by dozens of senior leaders at Symetra. Dagster delivers data directly to stakeholders' BI dashboards with unprecedented reliability and frequency compared to legacy systems.- Leading Data & Systems team for modernization efforts related to Long Duration Targeted Improvements implementation: -> Partnering with actuarial leaders to identify key pain-points with data processes. -> Migrating data processes from VBA/Excel/SQL Server to Snowflake. -> Automating all aspects of MG-ALFA and PolySystems models using version-controlled Python and SQL (via dbt). -> Developed data infrastructure in AWS to allow actuaries to centralize and analyze their data in Snowflake. -> Promoting growth opportunities for direct reports by involving them in emerging opportunities and sharing their accomplishments with broad audiences.- Developed and implemented a CI/CD pipeline built on our dbt project to deploy production Streamlit dashboards in Snowflake, adjacent to our data warehouse.

Bellevue, Washington, United States

- Developed and implemented a database-backed Long Term Disability claims dashboard using Streamlit in production.- Built an MG-ALFA Python library to automate processing of model inputs, runs and outputs.- Owner of maintenance, review, and distribution of Symetra's in-house Python library for analysts, actuaries and data science implementations.- Organized and led Symetra's first annual Hackathon, bringing together developers and actuaries across the organization to build tools for long-term operational productivity.- Leads weekly Python Office Hours, fostering an inclusive environment for all actuaries, data scientists and analysts to refine their Python skills- Served as Symetra's shared technical resource, accelerating development in various project by partnering with project owners.

Bellevue, Wa

- Built and automated product illustration workbooks.- Supported implementation of 2017 CSO life insurance products by ensuring actuarial accuracy of illustrations.- Repriced post level term rates using Python based on emerging experience - resulting in $100's of millions of expected present value of profitability.- Developed account value rollforward and policy exhibit systems using Perl, SQL and SAS.

Greater Seattle Area

Automated re-pricing of universal life non-guaranteed elements to maximize profitability.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Developed SAS programs to generate specific data tables• Constructed complex models to identify significant data and forecast futuretrends• Designed sophisticated macros in VBA to simplify the update processes forthese models

Developed and debugged a program to help project leaders communicate and efficiently track their projects.

Master Of Science - Ms, Data Science, 4.0

Actuarial Science & Finance, 3.78

Honors Program