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- Developed a new worksite underwriting program for a Fortune 100 company to include Accident, Critical Illness and Whole Life coverage. Including underwriting practices, governance, reporting, renewal guidelines and marketed underwriting limits.- Created a training program and change management effort to grow a young worksite underwriting team to support the release of new product offerings.- Represented underwriting as the lead subject matter expert for the development of new worksite product lines and customer experience efforts.- Lead project efforts end to end for underwriting from cross department developmental phases, sign off with senior leadership, through to implementation and communications.- Provide consulting on complex case review by analyzing discovery data, technology, and compensation to deliver creative solutions to balance profitability and sales.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

- Leader, developer, coach and continuous improver of multiple teams to include high level professionals, Entry level operations and technical support staff.- Delivers profitable results by coaching a team of professionals to assess risk, profitability and the negotiation for an 18 state territory of accounts from 3-10,000+ lives.- Bring a proactive and innovative approach to problem solving with limited resources.- Develop, lead and implement large change management and product development efforts to provide greater departmental efficiency using Agile methodologies.- Excel in the development of strong working relationships with both customers and business partners by delivering high quality and high impact results.

Columbia, South Carolina Area

- Provide operational Management of a team of technical support staff to include the development of metrics, time studies, assessment of task and priority.- Lead a cross functional effort to increase efficiency and reduce growth. Efforts resulted in reduced turnaround time by 63%, reduced required workload by 35% and allowed the avoidance of additional headcount.-With additional capacity implemented multiple proactive efforts that provided efficiency gains for 3 additional departments.

Colonial Life Insurance

- Delivered profitable sales results using risk assessment skills, profitability and the negotiation of benefits and rates for accounts from 3-10,000+ lives.- Detailed product, risk and competitive intelligence knowledge on a 10 product portfolio. - Provided market data, industry and underwriting expertise to the development of underwriting guidelines and consult on product needs for new voluntary benefit products specializing in Critical Illness, Cancer and Hospital Indemnity product lines.- Developed a training program to develop new Risk Managers skills in risk assessment, product knowledge and negotiations skills.

- Provide underwriting review of critical illness policies to include: reviewing health, insurability, suitability and mortality.- Assist company sales representatives with customer service needs, underwriting training and product requirements on 5 insurance product lines.

Columbia, Sc