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Cleveland, Ohio, US

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US

• Leading the effort to build a retail lending sales funnel across multiple residential asset classes
• Monitoring regional performance of Home Equity products
• Initiated effort to improve data quality for collateral valuation data received from third party vendor
• Leading the effort to migrate the existing Residential Real Estate data-mart to the Hadoop big data platform
• Successfully rebuilt the Residential Real Estate Data Development team consisting of 3 SAS/SQL developers. This including resume reviews, interviewing, negotiating terms and onboarding
• Managing mortgage and home-equity data-mart used for CCAR, Basel, analytics and statutory reporting

Mayfield Village, OH, US

• Managing a team of six pricing analysts. This includes training, setting annual objectives, allocating and reviewing work assignments, performance evaluation and planning for their career development
• Generate quarterly forecasts of losses and premiums for the prospective 12-18 months to determine profitability ($1.5 billion annual premium). This information is used by senior management to plan pricing structure.
• Coordinated a cross-functional team (analysts, process consultants and IT) to ensure that all processes across various groups are seamlessly integrated which helped reduce recovery events by about 10%
• Led the successful transfer of the price simulation activity from the Product Specialist group to the Pricing group resulting in overall efficiency and improved analytical insight

Mayfield Village, OH, US

• Built a pricing structure, analyzed the impact on the business and deployed the updated pricing structure which resulted in an additional profit of $0.8 million
• Integral team member working on rebuilding the existing auto insurance pricing structure which led to an increase in annual premium of $42 million
• Recommended a new product segmentation idea for the auto insurance product based on commercial credit data obtained from third party vendor resulting in a potential annual revenue increase of $0.5 million
• Developed a management dashboard to monitor new product introductions

Mayfield Village, OH, US

• Built a pricing structure, analyzed the impact on the business and deployed the updated pricing structure which resulted in an additional profit of $0.8 million
• Integral team member working on rebuilding the existing auto insurance pricing structure which led to an increase in annual premium of $42 million
• Recommended a new product segmentation idea for the auto insurance product based on commercial credit data obtained from third party vendor resulting in a potential annual revenue increase of $0.5 million
• Developed a management dashboard to monitor new product introductions

Mayfield Village, OH, US

• Leveraged a customer behavior study and developed a new metric to track retention which is at 88%
• Monitored growth and profitability of insurance products in Texas and Oklahoma ($170 million annual premium)
• Led a cross-functional team for the successful roll-out of new pricing structures in four states ($225 million annual premium)
• Developed a reporting packet to analyze the results of rate changes made for a state. Resulted in reduction of time required for preparations by about 80%
• Re-created competitor pricing structure and studied the effect of competitor pricing structures on the existing book of business to determine potential opportunities and threats
• Led a team of 4 analyst to improve the management information systems for the product management group

Mentor, Ohio, US

• Led the financial analysis and capital budgeting for four distribution centers ($30 million annual revenue)
• Led the execution and compilation of the Annual Operating/Financial Plan ($800 million annual revenue)
• Served as a team lead in the testing and training for the PeopleSoft Financial Accounting system implementation
• Streamlined the month-end close process which resulted in reducing time to 3 days (from 5-6 days)

• Performed operations analysis of production equipment leading to $200,000 annual savings
• Responsible for designing and implementing the Sales and Operations Planning process resulting in improving forecasting accuracy by 5%-10% points
• Developed a supplier performance portal showing key supplier metrics. This helped the division track supplier schedules and was used for negotiating annual contracts
• Implemented an ERP system module to automatically date sales orders leading to improvement in the on-time-in-full (OTIF) order fill rate by 8%-10% points
• Developed user instructions, conducted training on the MfgPro MRP system and developed tools to ensure system integrity

Mentor, Ohio, US

• Designed and implemented an activity based cost analysis system
• Assisted in the execution and compilation of the Annual Operating Plan ($50 million annual revenue)
• Used Visual Basic macros to improve accounting and operational efficiencies

Master’S Degree, Mba

Master’S Degree, Masters Of Commerce, Banking And Finance Concentration

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelors Of Commerce, Accounting Concentration