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New York, Ny, Us

United States

Driving business and technology platform innovation through Verisk’s insurance SaaS model by helping insurance and annuity carrier clients achieve significant budget and time savings needed to implement policy administration and distribution management systems.Lead workshops focused on Agile delivery, organizational change management, and digital transformation for life insurance and annuity clients; advising on program strategy and structure, implementation execution methodology and program roadmap. Help client executives identify and refine strategic organizational goals and translate those into actionable objectives for Verisk to deliver for their client programs.

Founded a consulting company focused on digital transformation and business process innovation.Led a combined team of 7 business analysts based in Hong Kong and Philippines in a scaled Agile framework defining a new pension operations workflow system leveraging ServiceNow to achieve cost savings and higher business processing accuracy through an automated rule engine. Led regular platform requirement design, grooming and elaboration workshops with business users, technical team leads, testers and the product owner, and documented requirement specifications in the JIRA backlog.Co-led a series of corporate workshops to corporate clients and universities on enterprise applications of distributed ledger technology aimed at identifying new business models and opportunities for growth. Consulted to clients regarding the competitive landscape for new proposed product offerings, providing market research reports and market entry strategies.

Hong Kong

On-site consultant at HSBC focused on Agile business transformation and digital initiatives.Helped to plan and track the budgets of select Hong Kong insurance IT projects. Managed vendor relationships, and tracking and reporting of resource utilization and pipeline to management to facilitate planning across the insurance IT project portfolio in Hong Kong. Coordinated multiple Agile development workstreams associated with HSBC’s implementation of new regulatory requirements from the Insurance Authority across HSBC’s insurance product portfolio within Hong Kong. Communicated business requirements to software development and testing teams and development constraints to business stakeholders within an Agile development framework

Hong Kong

Co-founded Parle, an Internet company which provides a PDF document and website annotation platform that facilitates collaboration within enterprise settings. Led a 4 person team awarded 1st Place Presidential Prize, Best Presentation Prize and Student Team Prize in Hong Kong University of Science and Technology’s One Million Dollar Entrepreneurship Competition in June 2015. Developed strategies for marketing, monetization, capital raising and product development based on requirements gathered from customers. Devised digital content strategy to attract new users to Parle exploiting its annotation features.

Hong Kong

Sep: Strategy intern for Standard Life InvestmentsJune - Aug: Sales/Marketing intern for SL Capital

Hong Kong

Hong Kong

New York And Hong Kong

Research Manager, Asia PacificResearch Associate, TMT

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Entrepreneurship, Strategy And Finance

Recipient of HKUST Merit Scholarship

B.A., Economics, International Studies

Activities and Societies: Students In Free Enterprise (SIFE), Model U.N., Cross Country