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Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

• Managing and leading high performing actuarial functions supporting key schemes• Assisting the GM on redesign of the delivery of eligibility services to residential building industry and other industry reforms• Delivering high quality actuarial analysis and advice to business ensuring scheme sustainability• Managing key stakeholder relationships and writing submissions for government stakeholders (including SIRA and DCS)• Delivering ILVRs and FCRs for HBCF• Delivering and reporting budget scenarios, COVID-19 and financial projections, five year business plans and annual premium filings

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Actively contributing on many projects that have direct implications on Cover-More and significance for the broader insurance industry:* faster and more accurate valuations of uncertain claim costs, and impacts to underwriting (e.g. profit loss sharing with partners)* the transition to and acquisition by Zurich (across multiple jurisdictions)* importing and exporting technical capabilities between Zurich/Cover-More (e.g. insight sessions)* supporting existing and new pricing opportunities backed by Zurich's size and scale (e.g. new partners)* applying Machine Learning techniques and capabilities for predictive analyses on 'big data' (e.g. GBM to predict losses)* leveraging behavioural science to critically understand and assess the role of human behaviour in the areas of sales, conversion, retention, underwriting and claims (better purchase and claim paths that are cognitively easy)* redesign of claims lodgment and management processes to minimise leakage (reduction of moral hazard)* cross departmental collaboration on potential cognitive automation applications* building a strong network of relationships into the Claims, Finance, IT and Sales departments* building a strong cross industry network with senior leaders* leading share and learn session for peers and cross departmental colleagues* promotion of team collaboration using desktop and mobile based applications* driving cross departmental information sharing and innovation using internal and external resources* publishing industry insights on online forums and industry print mediaHave a passion for learning the theories and applications of behavioural science and machine learning.

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Accomplishments in areas of leadership and management:* leading an actuarial loss reserving team and reporting analysis to the COO* running the shop in the GM's absence (on actuarial and product matters) and reporting to the COO* taking the lead on significant cross departmental projects (to resolve data integrity and quality matters)* collaborating with the senior leadership team (on matters of commerciality)* working on due diligence and M&A opportunities* successfully completing a Diploma of Management (over a six month period)

North Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Accomplishments and contributions toward Cover-More evolution from a privately held company to a listed organisation, in various disciplines:* operational knowledge of claims processes and management* detailed knowledge of source and workflow systems* expertise and experience in loss reserving via standard and sophisticated techniques* automated data extraction, processing and cleansing* commercial acumen and knowledge in assessing portfolio performance and profitability* critical assessment of underwriting deals* comprehensive product benefits and rate reviews* effective due diligence of M&A deals* assessment of FX exposure* evaluation of tax treatments* evaluation of new business opportunities and tender processes

Sydney, Australia

Accomplishments include:* supported AA roles and timely year end statutory reporting (to APRA)* development of robust loss reserving framework for multi year earthquakes (NZ)* automated data transformations in SAS (various)* automated commercial lines loss reserving framework (client)* assessment and refinement of market share analytics tool (in house)* refinement of quote collection tool (in house)* active service in mentoring roles* training of peers and undergraduates

Sydney, Australia

Accomplishments across various actuarial disciplines: * competitive risk based motor and home pricing (national and state based)* robust stochastic peril modeling (of cyclone and wind damage)* effective loss reserving framework and timely quarter end reporting (for reinsurance captives)* assessment of reinsurance treaties (non-proportional and proportional)* successful year end statutory reporting (APRA)

Bachelor Of Commerce (Bcom), Actuarial

Bachelor Of Economics (Bec), Economics