People manager for four early career actuaries responsible for onboarding, project allocation, and fostering career growth; valuation of UHC and Optum medical cost savings initiatives; development and maintenance of hurricane impact forecasting and valuation pipeline; maintenance of Rx forecasting process I designed; development of deductible factors for production trend forecasting; maintenance of macroeconomic model I designed; development and maintenance of R assets and training for broader team

Analysis of ROI of UHC Population Health savings initiatives; Development of brand new weekly surveillance process for OptumRx's formulary, as well as training a new individual to manage it on a day-to-day basis; Maintenance of forecasting pipeline for OptumRx's formulary I designed; Development of forecasting pipeline for genomics CPT codes for UHC's Medicare and Retirement line of business, as well as training a new individual to manage it on a day-to-day basis; Maintenance of macroeconomic forecasting model I designed; Assistance developing and delivering an Analytics in R module for the University of Minnesota actuarial science program; Ad hoc analysis in support of quarterly health care trend forecasting for UHC's Commercial line of business

Ad hoc analysis in support of quarterly medical cost trend forecasting; development of new, state-of-the-art modeling techniques to extend team forecasting and analysis capabilities, including the building of a full forecasting pipeline for OptumRx; maintenance of production cycle for macroeconomic forecast model I designed; ongoing support COVID-19 impact analysis and forecasting, both with respect to UHG costs and national healthcare spending.

Ad hoc analysis in support of quarterly medical cost trend forecasting, including identification of previously unknown trend driver and new method of quantifying the impact of hurricanes on medical costs; development of new, state-of-the-art modeling techniques to extend team forecasting and analysis capabilities, including development of in-house macroeconomic trend forecasting model to replace externally-contracted model; contributing member of winning team in company-wide Kaggle-style machine learning competition

Quarterly calculation and communication to management of Economic Capital Business Scenarios for Fixed, FIA, Variable, VIA, and FIUL products by means of Monte Carlo modelling; Design, use, and maintenance of tools for preparing data used in Economic Capital Business Scenarios models; Design, use, and maintenance of tools for data preparation and analysis; member of multi-year model change project group to accommodate new reporting standards and update company systems; Management of tri-annual team modeling systems updates; Ad hoc analysis, including modeling for American Academy of Actuaries RBC Task Force and developing an internal residential mortgage loan credit risk model for IFRS 9 reporting

Supported end of year and beginning of year Economic Capital Business Scenarios reporting; presented in-depth look at internal model for longevity trend risk

Developed best practices for handling high volumes of regulatory compliance data; volunteered for extra data analysis duties in Excel to improve team efficiency

Collected research for and edited projects for publication in peer-reviewed publications under the auspices of a Templeton Grant; created and maintained marketing, budget, and research databases in Excel; developed cost projection module for conference planning

Assisted in the development of a pilot Ethics in Science program that is now taught regularly; communicated complex topics to students to enhance their understanding of material

Managed accounting and subscriber information in Excel