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Chicago, Il, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Coherent’s technology helps insurers break through the constraints of legacy systems with a suite of platforms powered by our Spark technology.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Leading an expert team and engagements to accelerate key strategic and Insurance Industry partners with Azure, the Azure Marketplace, and GTM jumpstart to help them grow. I lead the Insurance Industry category for Microsoft cloud platform, AI, and Azure Marketplace. I leverage my deep understanding of Insurance industry problems to identify/enable innovative ISV that accelerates the use of Azure services and increases Azure consumption while delivering impactful solutions to the overall ecosystem.I work in close coordination with engineering, sales, marketing, and business development stakeholders, to categorize and select solution providers across the entire ecosystem that generate the greatest combined impact on Azure growth and Marketplace sales.I leverage my lengthy professional relationships with industry-leading solution providers (Moody’s Analytics, FIS, WTW, and Milliman) to help guide and grow transformation opportunities to utilize Microsoft services, cutting-edge Azure resources, and new sales channels.I have been asked to present, in-person and virtually, at multiple Industry conferences and professional events on Microsoft technologies and industry trends, including blockchain solutions, cloud security, AI’s impact on the insurance industry, cloud adoption, and current trends.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Represent business with internal and external computing partners in planning, delivery and maintenance of cloud-based actuarial compute environment (Microsoft Azure running GGY Axis)• Led the Migration from locally based Compute Grids to an all cloud based compute on MS Azure for GGY Axis for select Business Units• Provide cloud-based actuarial modeling support for business units and IT providers, acting as subject matter expert• Establish cloud based infrastructure for Life Insurance Capital Adequacy Test (LICAT) for business units across Asia (including China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore)

New York, Ny, Us

IT relationship manager for the Life & Retirement Actuaries.• Built and led a team of Actuaries and IT professionals to support mission-critical applications used to establish reserves and projections, supporting Actuarial functions across AIG • Established the GGY AXIS platform at AIG and re-platform SunGard iWorks Prophet• Support Statutory, Tax and GAAP reserve calculations utilizing ArcVAL/CASE, PolySystems, MoSes, TAS and GGY AXIS • Support Cash Flow Testing, Assets Liability Modeling, and Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review (CCAR) projections using SunGard iWorks Prophet, MoSes and GGY AXIS• Establish and manage large calculation grids leveraging internal server farms, externally hosted server grids and calculation bursting, incorporating Cloud-based resources• Identify and evaluate multiple vendors and service providers, negotiate contracts and implement engagement models; providers include Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, and IBM SoftLayer• Act as liaison between Actuarial leaders and IT leaders to effectively convey Actuarial issues and concerns, including future needs, throughout IT for timely and successful prevention and resolution of problems including but not limited to project status, monetary issues, and anticipated outcomes• Work with outside consultants and solution providers on multiple and varied business issues• Manage all phases of software development lifecycle including change management, testing, and documentation • Coordinated budgeting, planning and estimating work for the actuarial support team• Managed a team of 14 (managers, subject matter experts, and contractors)• Prepared presentations for the team and senior management status reporting meetings

Technical and Actuarial Support for Policy, Research and Analysis Department (PRAD) of the Pension Benefits Guarantee Corporation (PBGC) for Pension Insurance Modeling System (PIMS). Pension Insurance Modeling System, is designed to quantify the risk facing PBGC’s single-employer and multiemployer insurance programs under a variety of future financial scenarios. The input database for the model includes extensive, detailed data of some of the nation’s largest pension plans, including key financial variables from companies sponsoring these plans, and details on the PBGC’s current assets, benefit payment obligations and recent history of key financial market returns. • Led a team of C++ developers and a DBA • Responsible for the underlying architecture for the software program• Serve as technical adviser to the client for the current projects as well as future planning• System support for a stochastic and deterministic modeling system using distributive processing across 100 CPU cores• Act as a mentor for new or lower-level software developers, as well as for all members of the development team• Create and maintain documentation associated with the programs and applications developed Develop new code in C++, C# and VB.Net

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

ARCVAL is a comprehensive, integrated system for valuation, financial reporting, financial forecasting, experience analysis and earnings analysis for business. • Design and development of valuation system for the calculation of statutory, tax, and FAS 60 GAAP reserves for any health product using claim costs or continuance/termination rate tables (C++, Access) • Direct, extensive client contact, including on-site visits, to assist in identification of individualized client needs, on-site training and promotion of client satisfaction through development of customized software applications including specialized interfaces, calculation engines and report generation to meet specific client needs• Creation and execution of test plans and test cases into the overall QA process • Team Leader, Prophet Library (SunGard(FIS) iWORKS Prophet), developing forecasting models for Long-Term Care, Long-Term Disability and Critical Illness using experience data, standard incidence and severity tables and stochastic methods to project cash flow and future liabilities. • Head Developer, PrintVAL, a powerful report generator that produces a series of exhibits that can be incorporated into your actuarial report. • Development of custom application for the Principal Financial Group to calculate participating products, including valuation of annuity payments • Proven ability to manage multiple projects independently and work collaboratively with a software development team; understand and anticipate needs of clients and team members to promote an effective work environment; worked diligently to complete projects meeting stringent quality standards within strict deadlines

Washington, Dc, Us

Plan, organize, develop and implement compensation and benefits surveys; collect and analyze extensive, detailed data from multiple sources; perform data reviews and quality control processes; design and development of specialized computer applications for data capture and manipulation in Clipper and PowerBuilder.I wrote the CADLET manual for computer-aided data collection. Train and mentor new staffMember, EIQI Regional Technology Advisory Group and National EIQI Group for Computer-Aided Data Collection; multiple Regional Achievement Awards

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

I ran a vocational school.