Andy Sprague
Technology Lead
Petaluma,CO
Summary
Motivated by meaningful work that improves the world we live in. Proven success as a technology lead in the climate (re)insurance space, with over 10 years of experience achieving ambitious goals in a challenging environment. Led delivery and development efforts for 5 internal trade execution and risk-management products to market in the last 3 years. Diligent, forward-thinking and adaptable to dynamic company, customer and project needs.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
3
3
Certificates
Work History
Climate - Head of Technology
Nephila
09.2021 - Current
- Establish a clear strategy and plan for technology; elevating the approach over time so that we are viewed as a leader in technology amongst our peers/by investors
- Build a sourcing strategy that balances internal and external resources to deal with our changing needs
- Effectively lead and manage all resource types
- Build a software delivery process that delivers consistently and with quality; appropriately trading off business capability and technical debt - Ensure business units are engaged and expectations communicated in both the strategy and the delivery of solutions.
Lead Developer
Nephila Climate
02.2018 - 09.2021
- Successfully owned the creation of a clear technology strategy and gained trust in my ability to execute on it, delivering meaningful technology change within a fast-growing business
- Delivered a replacement of our core transactional system to significantly reduce operational risk
- Reduced the effort required to calculate PnL on our books by 80% through increased automation of in-house pricing/valuation systems.
Analyst Developer
Nephila Advisors – Technology
06.2015 - 02.2018
- Successful green field delivery of RiskStore data warehouse, a big-data solution to aggregate risk across all portfolios, and the first cloud-based solution for Nephila
- Reduced runtimes from 2 hours to 5 minutes
- Successful green field delivery of UPA using Spark/Cassandra, a big-data system to process, validate and store monthly submissions from our 3rd party MGAs.
Developer
UBS Investment Bank IT
09.2014 - 06.2015
- As part of the GED core development team, I was responsible for managing the overnight processing of all IB risk positions
- The technology was Oracle/Java with a Data Synapse grid of 10,000 nodes for parallel processing.
Business Analyst
UBS Global AM IT, Production Services
09.2012 - 09.2014
- Responsible for reducing support costs through improvements in resolution rates of support tickets and production incidents - I achieved a 13% reduction in incidents escalated to app development teams in 2014
- Responsible for co-ordinating migrations from unsupported vendor technologies
- UK business contact for Windows 7 desktop upgrade, where I achieved 100% completion before the deadline date.
Education
Master of Science - Physics
Oxford University
Christ Church College 09.2008 - 09.2011
Skills
Languages: dotnet, Python, Scala, nodeJS
undefinedCertification
CFA level 1
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