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Diya (Dylan) Ahir

Westlake

Summary

Hardworking and highly dedicated professional committed to achieving excellence in both my career and personal goals. I am always eager to learn, embrace new challenges, and continuously grow through every opportunity. Known for my strong work ethic, adaptability, and positive attitude, I strive to contribute to team success while building meaningful relationships with clients and colleagues. Passionate about continuous improvement and determined to work toward achieving my dreams.

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Surplus Lines Business Analysis - Producing Underwriter

Specialty Insurance Company
05.2025 - Current
  • Underwrite Commercial General Liability, Liquor Liability, Property, Business Auto, and Workers' Compensation policies for both premise-based and construction risks, with a primary focus on construction accounts. Analyze exposures, evaluate risk, and determine pricing and coverage terms for complex classes, including asbestos abatement, EIFS and stucco contractors, roofing contractors, solar contractors, tunneling contractors, and premise-based operations ranging from bars & taverns to manufacturers.
  • Collaborated with underwriting lead to develop Excel-based property underwriting tools for replacement cost estimation, addressing underinsured limits and improving catastrophe exposure visibility, thereby preventing cost shifting to insureds at time of loss.
  • Supported development and implementation of exposure/experience excel rating worksheet with actuarial team to enable underwriters to evaluate expected claim severity for commercial auto risks, calculating credibility-weighted ground-up cost per vehicle and quantifying deductible impacts through gross indemnity and net savings estimates.
  • Assisted senior actuaries in developing internal commercial property facultative reinsurance pricing tool, enabling underwriters to estimate expected losses, allocate premiums across layers, and utilize data sources for informed pricing decisions.

Graduate Teaching Assistant

State University
01.2024 - 01.2025
  • Instruct forecasting, regression, and risk management modeling to 45+ students each in 4 classes. Create case studies, quizzes, and team projects to foster collaborative learning within the Business Analysis domain, leading to a pass rate of 98%.
  • Assisted professors in preparing course materials and lesson plans.
  • Conducted review sessions to clarify complex topics for students.
  • Graded assignments and provided constructive feedback to enhance learning.

Education

Actuarial Ambassador Program

New York Life Insurance Company
07-2026

Oliver Wyman's Actuarial Summer Bootcamp
08-2025

Master of Science - Actuarial Science

Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business
05-2025

CAS Actuarial Summer Program
08-2024

Bachelor of Business Administration - Applied Statistics

Narmad South Gujarat University
04-2023

Skills

  • R
  • Python
  • SQL
  • VBA
  • Excel
  • Tableau
  • Predictive Risk Modeling
  • Data Analysis
  • Exposure Rating
  • Underwriting
  • Theory of Risk Sharing
  • Mortality Modeling
  • Reinsurance Operation

Project Work And Leadership Activity

  • CVS Health (Case Competition - Aetna College Day), 04/24, Collaborated on enhancing the risk adjustment model by integrating missing plan-level factors, Induced Demand Factor and Actuarial Value by metal level to better capture variations in plan richness and utilization patterns, improving the accuracy of risk scores and cost projections across different plan types Recalculated enrollee risk scores by analyzing medical diagnoses, age, and plan attributes; examined age and health condition coefficients across metal tiers to identify trends affecting model accuracy, and simulated the chart retrieval process for high-risk enrollees to update scores and evaluate the resulting financial impact on plan performance
  • Georgia State University (Actuarial Life Contingencies Project), 03/25, Constructed the Standard Ultimate Life Table leveraging Makeham’s model to extrapolate survival probabilities at advanced ages and implemented standard actuarial premium calculation methodologies under the discrete model by integrating present value factors, mortality, assumptions, and policy parameters to deliver precise and efficient life insurance product valuation Developed robust VBA add-in featuring intuitive dropdown menus for dynamic input of interest rates, policy types (whole life, term, endowment),terms, issue ages, and premium payment frequencies, enabling instantaneous calculation of premiums and reserve values across multiple scenarios

Timeline

Surplus Lines Business Analysis - Producing Underwriter

Specialty Insurance Company
05.2025 - Current

Graduate Teaching Assistant

State University
01.2024 - 01.2025

Actuarial Ambassador Program

New York Life Insurance Company

Oliver Wyman's Actuarial Summer Bootcamp

Master of Science - Actuarial Science

Georgia State University, J. Mack Robinson College of Business

CAS Actuarial Summer Program

Bachelor of Business Administration - Applied Statistics

Narmad South Gujarat University
Diya (Dylan) Ahir