Owner of Gianfranco Ristorante, a small southern Italian style restaurant in downtown Snoqualmie Washington.

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Responsible for developing and delivering competitive intelligence and recommendations for managing the product portfolio of Zurich's life insurance operations in the US (Farmers Life and Zurich American Life Insurance Company). Provided internal consulting support for various projects including developing and facilitating a functional strategic offsite. Member, Group Strategy Task Force (2016): 40 member team selected from over 2,200 applicants. Under the direction of the Group CEO and Group Head of Strategy, the team was tasked with developing Zurich Insurance Group's strategy and to act as ambassadors in execution. Personal area of focus was developing the Retail strategy.

• Head of Market and Competitive Insight, with regular reporting to executive team• Market research support for Zurich global intelligence network• Conduct market research for new and refreshed propositions• Work with Product Development to develop and deliver propositions to the field• Provide internal consulting support for Farmers and Zurich North America• Support annual strategy review and strategic planning process

(Product Development) June 2011 - August 2012(Reinsurance) May 2010 – June 2011(Guiding Coalition) - Selected by CEO and senior management for small cross functional team tasked with supporting company transformation initiatives(Modeling and Analytics) February 2008 – May 2010(GAAP Financial Reporting) July 2006 – February 2008

- Performed hardware and software support and installation for multiple offices- Installed and maintained Active Directory for group of 100+ employees- Software development in C/C++, Java, VBA

Worked with Professor Oscar Vilches studying helium and nitrogen adsorption on carbon nanotubes at low temperatures.Assisted in the design and implementation of computer systems that automated testing and increased the number of testing cycles available