Derek Bracy Email & Phone Number

Bellevue, Washington, United States

Bellevue, Washington, United States

• Responsible for leading a team of analysts and data scientists capable of delivering incredible insights to stakeholders across the company.
• Develop and deploy source controlled, tested and well documented SQL models to our data warehouse using an open-source development framework called dbt.
• Contribute to the company wide Python monorepo for actuaries, analysts, data engineers and data scientists by following a test-driven development approach to design, develop and deploy effective Python software to meet.
• Create curriculum for and host internal training and development sessions on Python, SQL, Git, Azure Dev Ops, and dbt.
• Partner on intense, project-based 1:1 mentoring initiatives to help other teams solve business problems while learning new skills.

Bellevue

• Responsible for overall success of Symetra’s Actuarial Modernization Initiative
• Work closely with senior management to drive planning and implementation for Actuarial Modernization thinking 3-5 years out to create the vision and roadmap
• Implement actuarial, finance data, and system architecture in partnership with Finance Transformation and Data & Analytics COE
• Lead and execute special organizational projects
• Coordination with other large scale enterprise initiatives such as the strategic planning process, Finance Transformation, Data & Analytics COE, and Customer Experience Project
• Founder of the Data Science Club: an interest group focused on learning the theory behind data science and applying that theory in creative ways to solve business problems

Bellevue

• Led aggregation of several financial models into one enterprise level model
• Leveraged enterprise model to stress test total company impact of tail risk (1 in 200) events including:o 2008-2009 Financial Crisiso 1918 Spanish Flu
• Led project management efforts across Actuarial and IT (Data Management and Software Development) teams to build an internal tool to pro-actively report on and manage concentration risko Presented results to senior.
• Prepared decks and key risk metrics for quarterly Enterprise Risk Committee meetings which include executives and senior leaders across the company
• Founder of the Data Science Club: an interest group focused on learning the theory behind data science and applying that theory in creative ways to solve business problems
• Graduate of FLITE: Future Leaders in Training Experience, a leadership program involving a cross functional project with an increased focus on cultivating soft skills necessary for effective leadershi

Bellevue

Bellevue, Washington