Matthew Johns
Principal Data Scientist
Roseville,CA
Summary
Principal data scientist with 9 years in the P&C insurance industry, with a focus on building end-to-end solutions and completing projects. Achievements include 11 data science project implementations while in a lead role and managing 4 teammates within a within a Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment environment. Also started and developed an internship program, which led to the hiring and training of 3 permanent hires. Practices a rigorous statistical
approach and works strictly within the Reproducible Research Paradigm. Highly skilled in project design, statistical modeling, machine learning, data wrangling, cost-benefit analysis, risk quantification.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
Work History
Associate Director
Willis Towers Watson
04.2023 - 08.2024
- Responsibilities include Technology Director, Project Lead, Stakeholder Communication
- Technology Stack Overhaul (to Azure-hosted Posit Enterprise): Taught and led by example “git at the command line”
- Actuarial “AI”: code-named REVEAL and computed an extensible set of parameters critical to corporate risk management
- Data Warehouse Architecture: Responsible for migrating to Git-backed version control
- Started the Actuarial Technology Internship Program: Three students selected for 2024
Career Break
Full-Time Parenting
07.2021 - 04.2023
Principal Data Scientist, Team Manager
Brown & Brown Inc
04.2018 - 07.2021
- Engineered numerous concurrent machine learning solutions for California Workers Compensation, Commercial Auto, Catastrophic Wind, Lawyers Liability, Social Security Disability Insurance, Medicare Set-Aside
- Set Forth Team Policies with respect to Work Quality and Software Best Practices with personally written examples
- Designed Solutions, Drafted Proposals, and Presented evidentiary support for their expected viability and ROI
- Implemented cloud-hosted solutions via API, SSH, and exchange server
- Managed a team of five
- Started an internship program and developed all three interns into permanent employees
- Engineered an automated pricing system for Workers Compensation
Lead Data Scientist
Atlas General Insurance Services
02.2016 - 04.2018
- Engineered 3 machine learning solutions for California Workers Compensation and Commercial Earthquake
- Assisted the actuarial department by porting computation deliverables from their spreadsheets into proprietary R script (e.g. GLM-based multivariate pricing targets)
- Modeled the catastrophe portfolio with respect to things like Probable Maximum Loss at differing return periods
- Engineered a portfolio optimization system for quoting Commercial Earthquake submissions
Underwriting Assistant
Atlas General Insurance Services
06.2015 - 02.2016
- Served as the human processing node for Writing Commercial Earthquake Insurance Policies, which included submission intake and clearance, data entry and processing, policy collation
Education
Master of Science - Statistics
San Diego State University
San Diego, CA 08.2012 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
UC Santa Cruz
Santa Cruz, CA 09.2006 - 06.2009
Professional Certificate - Data Engineering
IBM
05.2001 -
Skills
R / RStudio Connect
SQL
Python / sklearn
Azure DevOps
Spark / Databricks
Neural Nets / Tensorflow
Bash Scripting
Actuarial Pricing
Loss Development
Relational Database Administration
Actuarial Exams
2023 - 03 CAS DISC 3 (Intro to Data and Analytics)
2017 - 07 Exam MFE (Models for Financial Economics)
2016 - 08 Exam FM (Financial Mathematics)
2015 - 07 Exam P (Probability)
Timeline
Associate Director
Willis Towers Watson
04.2023 - 08.2024
Career Break
Full-Time Parenting
07.2021 - 04.2023
Principal Data Scientist, Team Manager
Brown & Brown Inc
04.2018 - 07.2021
Lead Data Scientist
Atlas General Insurance Services
02.2016 - 04.2018
Underwriting Assistant
Atlas General Insurance Services
06.2015 - 02.2016
Master of Science - Statistics
San Diego State University
08.2012 - 05.2016
Bachelor of Arts - Economics
UC Santa Cruz
09.2006 - 06.2009
Professional Certificate - Data Engineering
IBM
05.2001 -
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