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Vancouver, Canada

PBI Actuarial Consultants is an established financial services consulting firm with offices in Vancouver, Montreal & Toronto. My role is primarily as Benefits Consultant which include the following responsibilities Extended Health and Dental plan design, financial modelling and experience monitoring Short Term Disability/Weekly Indemnity benefit design and pricing Long Term Disability benefit design and pricing Actuarial valuations of Extended Health and Benefit plans Financial modelling and projections including budgeting for Extended Health and Benefit plans

Centurion, South Africa

Point of Care Technologies (POCT) is a young, dynamic firm specialising in providing actuarial, business intelligence and analytics services to their clients. Acted as primary consultant on various key client accounts in various industries including Life Insurance, Health Insurance and Medical Schemes, Retail Analytics and Hospital Networks Maintain client relationships as key account manager Manage the Actuarial, BI & Analytics team Experience in project management using both agile and waterfall-based approaches*Actuarial Consulting* Design and pricing several benefits of healthcare insurance products on behalf of clients, individual & group Design and pricing several benefits of life insurance products on behalf of clients Experience in data warehouse design for multi-benefit, multi-peril insurance products to facilitate statutory reporting (IFRS17) Experience in the use of GLMs for pricing insurance products Experience in calculating IBNR reserves for short term risks using known actuarial techniques based on run-off triangles Experience in financial modelling and allocation-based pricing techniques Perform experience investigations including but not limited to Lapse Investigations, Mortality Investigations and Loss Ratios Performed Post-retirement medical valuation (PRML) work (IAS19)*BI and Analytics* Design, Develop & implement data warehousing, business intelligence & reporting solutions to clients, this included report automation solutions Experience in integrating data from disparate sources i.e. operational system, accounting system, sales system & off system targets at a data level to provide consolidated business insights Experience in the use of advanced statistical and analytical methods for problem solving Experience in using source control tools – GIT Key technologies include Microsoft SQL Server (T-SQL) , ORACLE SQL (PL/SQL), Power BI, Qlikview, QlikSense, Tableau, YellowFin and R

Centurion, South Africa

This position was very dynamic, Wellnicity only started at the end of 2009 and I played a key role in building the business from ground up. From the beginning I was actively involved in product/solution development as well as marketing to prospective clients. Wellnicity has since grown considerably and now offer products in the medical schemes and long term insurance industries. My primary duties included Medical Scheme data warehousing including storing and aggregation of clinical records using ICD-10, RPL and CPT4 coding standards Data visualization and management dashboards for various customers (QlikView) Medical Scheme Benefit Design including updating and enhancing current benefits as well as pricing,implementing and monitoring of new benefits added to scheme options Long term valuation of medical liability – as part of my duties we were appointed as actuaries to a fund that provides long term medical benefits not tied to any structure or limits, our duty was to use past data to estimate the present value of future cash flow from this obligation Performed Post-retirement medical valuation work for several clients (IAS19) Assisting in the financial evaluation of alternative healthcare funding models. Key technologies include Microsoft SQL Server, Qlikview, Advanced MS Visual Basic and R

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) (Hons), Actuarial Science

Winner of the FNB Award for the best Bsc (Hons) Financial and Actuarial Science research project

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Financial & Actuarial Mathematics

Matric (Grade 12)

High school education with 7 core subjects - passed with distinction