Matthew Mcdermott, Fcas Email & Phone Number

Bloomington, Il, Us

Us

· Manage a team of up to four direct reports. As part of this, I develop tailored strategies to help direct reports achieve their development goals. To accomplish this, delegate targeted work, and highlight their accomplishments to senior leadership.· Guide team in setting financial plans for future years and monitoring existing year for drivers of variance-to-plan. · Take ownership of several portfolios. These portfolios are spread across Professional Liability, Auto Warranty, and Healthcare. I work hand in hand with business partners to guide the strategy and pricing of these portfolios.· Lead a cross departmental team to build an always up to date aggregate indication dashboard that showcases profitability across the entire E&S portfolio at any level of granularity. · Lead development, and enhancements of the “Universal Pricing Indications Tool”. As part of this, I was able to speed up runtime by 75% for parts of the process and create a framework to automate underwriting communications using R Markdown. I continue to lead a team in developing enhancements for this tool.· Manage relationships with external partners and lead the build of Actuarial opinions on new opportunities. · Develop and refine calculations to monitor the program’s rate. This includes creating a new methodology to calculate Workers’ Compensation rate changes that assist Underwriters in assessing future portfolio health.

Northbrook, Il, Us

· Developed tools and reports to increase automation of actuarial analysis. · Developed and maintained expense provisions by working across the enterprise to determine future expected outcomes. · Assisted in planning and documenting of Esurance process to facilitate transition into Allstate brand.

Bloomington, Illinois, Us

· Developed new rate segmentation opportunities for the auto line of business. As part of this responsibility, I took the lead on developing State Farm’s rating response to COVID-19. Additionally, I monitored the effectiveness of rate actions via retrospective metrics monitoring. · Lead the indications work for personal auto lines. This included but was not limited to:1. Developing companywide indications guidance to lead the team in the development of state indications.2. Preparing communications for the companywide auto line of business that includes final Actuarial recommendations. I was then involved in the discussion of this report with the Actuarial Vice President.

• Taught students in the areas of Mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Accounting, and Physics.• Assisted students in using Microsoft office, R, C++, and VBA. • Helped special needs students develop their study and notetaking skills.• Work with students outside SIUE to help prepare them for the ACT, CLEP Exams, and AP exams. Several students obtained 30+ scores on their ACT because of this tutoring.

Boston, Ma, Us

· Build an Excel tool that streamlines data aggregation from various sources and uses that data to suggest and inform loss trend selections for commercial property indications. · Develop presentation skills and regularly present findings to peers and management.· Attend formal trainings to learn key concepts about various actuarial areas and functions. Main areas include reserving, pricing, and modeling.· Perform weekly research to study current events that are relevant to Liberty Mutual.

• Provided quality housing space for residents• Cooperated with coworkers to ensure all deadlines are met.• Completed service request in a fast-paced environment. Ensured all service request are processed and completed in 24 hours or less.

Godfrey, Il, Us

• Tutored college math at all levels including Calculus 1-3. Successfully helped 10 Calculus 1 students bring their grades up to A/B’s mid semester.• Worked to help determine individualized learning approaches for students with special needs.