Homesite Insurance, Boston, MA, Oct 2020 – Present
Catastrophe Risk Manager
• Provide insights and pricing recommendations to state managers for the severe convective storm peril. Analyzed the impact of a new wind deductible strategy in Minnesota. Compare profitability for different operating companies located in the same state.
• Team lead for reporting, analytics, and automation for the Property Center of Excellence.
• Upgraded all reporting from excel spreadsheet-based distribution to Google Data Studio dashboards and design SQL procedures and database infrastructure for reporting.
• Led initiative to incorporate a new vendor model, Karen Clark & Company, into our modeling process and manage the business relationship with the vendor.
Velocity Risk Underwriters, Nashville, TN Jan 2018 – Oct 2020
Senior Product Manager
• North Carolina Product Manager: Conducted competitor analysis in North Carolina to build HO3 product. Built rate structure, coordinated forms and submitted filings to the NC department of insurance.
• Worked with development team to launch the first product (North Carolina HO3) in new policy admin system. Provided strategic field support to sales team to find areas and product features that they could sell to agents.
• Developed Non-Admitted HO3 products in Florida and Texas. Leveraged catastrophe experience to develop rating structure and wind pricing based on AIR model. Worked with technology team to test and implement these rates. Successfully launched these two products as alternatives to our admitted products. After launch, monitored sales and profitability, made price adjustments accordingly.
• Subject matter expert for PL team on CAT modeling and portfolio optimization. Built product raters in Python. Helped to automate CAT modeling reporting. Trained PL team in SQL, Python and QGIS mapping.
AIG, Boston, MA Jun 2013 – Dec 2017
Portfolio Team Lead, Global Property (Nov 2013-Dec 2017)
• SME Global Portfolio Modeling Lead, managed portfolio modeling for SME book of business.
• Managed live CAT event response, portfolio team in India, and 2 regional modelers.
• Report and data visiualization generation, processes automation for CAT modelers, underwriters and business leaders.
Underwriting Support Manager (Jun 2013 – Nov 2013)
• Developed manuals of account and portfolio modeling procedures for the transfer of responsibilities to the India Center of Excellence.
• Trained 32 new analysts in CAT modeling process at the Center of Excellence for 8 weeks to enable the team to successfully meet deadlines to go live for account and portfolio modeling.
• Tested a new proprietary modeling software as part of a software development, that would be used by the team at the Center of Excellence for cleaning of modeling data and to produce blended model cat results.
Lexington Insurance, Boston, MA Nov 2009 – Jun 2013
Senior Catastrophe Analyst
• Oversaw the binding of accounts and modeling of the United States and Canada Commercial Property and Energy portfolios with 3,000 accounts and 2 million locations monthly using RMS RiskLink.
• Developed SQL scripts to help automate the monthly portfolio modeling process and to improve accuracy of data.
Insight Catastrophe Group, Dec 2007- Jan 2009
Modeling Analyst
• Performed RMS and AIR Hurricane catastrophe modeling. Implemented reinsurance structures in excel and SQL for web-based risk management software.
Epana Networking, New York, NY May 2006 - Nov 2007
Product Analyst
• Developed and implemented new card products, analyzed sales, profit and lossfor a nationwide prepaid calling card company.
Gaming Laboratories International, Lakewood, NJ Aug 2003 – Apr 2006
Mathematician
• Calculated the return on investment, and optimal strategy for slot machine, and table games using spreadsheets and computer programming. Tested games and random number generators for compliance with state regulations.
EDUCATION
Lehigh University, BS, Mathematics, Minor: Computer Science
SKILLS
Cat Modeling: RMS, AIR, KCC
Databases: SQL, Google Cloud Platform, BigQuery
Programming: Python, JavaScript
Geospatial Mapping: QGIS, ArcGIS
Data Visualization: D3, Google Data Studio, Tableau