Sam Redding, Fcas Email & Phone Number

Denver, CO, US

United States

United States

Greater Denver Area

• Supported multiple business units covering casualty, professional, auto, property and WC lines including programs, public entity, inland marine, garage and surety.
• Influenced underwriting leaders to make data driven decisions.
• Facilitated the sale of contract binding renewal rights as actuarial liaison.
• Collaborated with executive management team, IT, finance and marketing.
• Managed a team of four actuarial analysts ranging from entry level to FCAS.
• Evaluated performance, made new hires, and controlled compensation for direct reports.

Greater Denver Area

• Supported Contract Binding GL & Property, Transportation and Surety underwriting business units
• Extensive use of R to build and develop GLM’s and GBM’s for pricing and elasticity modelling.
• Model implementation in rate quote bind system in collaboration with IT.
• Use of Flask application to deliver modelling results to business via web browser.
• Architected cleansed data sets using Snowflake SQL.
• Built out and automated a Power BI reporting suite for supported business units.

London, United Kingdom

• Model Development: Liaising with underwriters to establish and incorporate appropriate base rates, ILF’s and rating factors; persuading users to make use of pricing models pre-bind. Extensive use of VBA in a number of.
• Portfolio Segmentation: Identifying profitable areas of the current book and performing scenario tests to support business planning and aid risk selection, utilising Access and VBA skills.
• Case Pricing: Burn cost analysis on large binder accounts and motor treaty accounts; selecting development patterns to project claims, applying rate change & inflation assumptions and considering exposure changes. This.
• Parameterisation: Non cat underwriting risk parameterisation for Casualty Treaty, Medical Malpractice and Offshore Energy accounts; in depth discussions with underwriting staff and consideration of emerging risks.
• Motor Rate Study: Use of market data to generate exposure base rates, profile relativities and PPO assumptions for use in pricing model. Output included a full written report. Some exposure to GLM’s using R during this.
• People Management: Line manager to the current actuarial placement student, which includes training, goal setting, communication and planning.

2:1 - Mathematics and Sports Science

• General Assistant to Head of Reserving and Chief ActuaryReserving:
• Experience using ResQ software
• Creation of data templates to improve data translation efficiency between ResQ and ExcelPricing:
• Building and early implementation of exposure pricing tools for property business lines
• Analysis of property portfolio, using Microsoft Access and Excel, which resulted in risk strategy changeCapital Modelling:
• Validation Testing for the company internal model

Horndean, Waterlooville

• Started as a delivery driver before promotion to shift manager
• Experience running a small team and dealing with problems
• Cashing up and stock take

• Working to targets and under pressure
• Ensuring quality in the condition and despatch of products
• Temporary work placements between term whilst at University

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Mathematics And Sports Science

A Levels, Mathematics, Biology, Sports Studies, A,B,A

Gifted and talented funding for high performance in sport and academia