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KENNETH CRUZEN

Lafayette,CO

Summary

Four years of college-level business, finance and accounting courses, along with experience working in Pension Analysis and Security Management have provided me with skills of identifying and evaluating a variety of processes for continued improvement and have prepared me to take on many new challenges.

Overview

16
16
years of professional experience

Work History

Pension and Retirement Analyst

Willis Towers Watson
02.2021 - Current
  • Perform and review pension calculations using Microsoft SQL and Excel for multiple Fortune 500 clients
  • Setup participants and beneficiaries of pension plans into payment, using multiple databases and Trustee systems
  • Generate and reconcile monthly reports for on-going data collection of participants approaching retirement and/or going into payment
  • Run queries in SQL to maximize client team efficiency and limit calls to our call center for calculation requests
  • Conduct trainings for new colleagues on systems and tools across multiple lines of business, including data analysis and calculation interpretation
  • Assist with data cleanup project and reports to map out anomalies in participant and beneficiary information with our systems

Security Officer

Seagate Technology LLC
02.2021 - 06.2022
  • Provide support for multiple Security posts at Seagate site, including Shift Lead, Photo Clerk, Key Control, SOC, Patrol & Lobby - across first, second and thirst shift hours.
  • Daily monitoring of authorized access of 700+ employees, clients, business contractors and visitors via video surveillance of lobbies, interior offices and exterior of facility.
  • Provide critical documentation of business operations, incidents and potential hazards.
  • Patrol interior and exterior campus grounds to identify potential hazards and abnormalities in operations.
  • Secure company assets and ensure employee compliance with safety policies and procedures.

Security Lead Supervisor & Badge Controller

Seagate Technology
09.2016 - 02.2021
  • Responsible for team training, scheduling, direction and delegation of duties for staff up to 13 team members.
  • Lead controller of badge access for all Seagate lines of business, including employees, business contractors and vendors.
  • Provided customer, administrative and technical support for security equipment audits and maintenance reports, using Microsoft O365, Genetec Security Center software and various offline programs.
  • Worked collaboratively and individually on several department projects.
  • Applied attention to detail and critical thinking skills for Incident Report writing for on-site events requiring thorough documented chronology.

Licensed Life Insurance Agent

New York Life Insurance Company
12.2019 - 08.2020
  • Offered varieties of products that helped clients meet multiple insurance and financial needs, including, but not limited to: retirement, college funding, lifetime income strategies and managing costs for extended periods of care.
  • Managed 20 clients' Life Insurance portfolios.
  • Analyzed needs of clients and recommended appropriate solutions.
  • Specialized in Term, Whole Life, Custom Whole Life & Long-Term Care products.

Security Ops Control, Reception, Patrol Officer

Seagate Technology
11.2007 - 04.2016
  • Daily monitoring of authorized access of 700+ employees, clients, business contractors and visitors via video surveillance of lobbies, interior offices and exterior of facility.
  • Provide critical documentation of business operations, incidents and potential hazards.
  • Patrol interior and exterior campus grounds to identify potential hazards and abnormalities in operations.
  • Secure company assets and ensure employee compliance with safety policies and procedures.

Cash Office Associate

Mall of America
09.2014 - 04.2016
  • Handled and distributed cash to retail employees for use in cash transaction sales.
  • Maintained proper cash levels for Money-in/Money-out (MIMO) machines for retail employees, and repaired machine jams and performed troubleshooting for machine errors.
  • Balanced daily internal vault counts using equations in Excel spreadsheets.
  • Prepared and reviewed daily cash, credit and deposit reports for company bookkeeping.
  • Performed regular MIMO machine maintenance.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Finance

Metropolitan State University
Saint Paul, MN
04.2018

Associate of Science - Business Management

Minneapolis Community And Technical College
Minneapolis, MN
05.2015

Skills

  • Balance Sheets Knowledge
  • Client Support & Services
  • Database Management
  • Life Insurance Products & Policies
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office O365 (Including OneDrive & SharePoint) & Offline Products (MS Office)
  • Retirement Benefit Calculations / Analysis for Participants & Beneficiaries
  • Security Team Management, Staffing & Scheduling
  • Systems Batch Calculations & Analysis

Timeline

Pension and Retirement Analyst

Willis Towers Watson
02.2021 - Current

Security Officer

Seagate Technology LLC
02.2021 - 06.2022

Licensed Life Insurance Agent

New York Life Insurance Company
12.2019 - 08.2020

Security Lead Supervisor & Badge Controller

Seagate Technology
09.2016 - 02.2021

Cash Office Associate

Mall of America
09.2014 - 04.2016

Security Ops Control, Reception, Patrol Officer

Seagate Technology
11.2007 - 04.2016

Bachelor of Science - Finance

Metropolitan State University

Associate of Science - Business Management

Minneapolis Community And Technical College
KENNETH CRUZEN