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Wyeth Raws

Milford,CT

Summary

Experienced Actuarial Developer with background in software development, proficient in delivering high-quality code and collaborating on innovative projects. Successfully contributed to multiple agile teams, enhancing product functionality and user experience. Demonstrated expertise in problem-solving and debugging complex issues.

Overview

18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Lead Actuarial Developer

IPipeline Inc.
02.2014 - Current
  • Responsible for coding and maintaining illustration calculations and rates for key strategic partner’s term, GUL, and IUL products.
  • Expertly identify root causes and corrective actions to meet short and long-term business goals.
  • Improved defect containment to be well below internal metrics of 0.25 per day while meeting all production deliverables.
  • Work closely with external stakeholders to define requirements and test activities, and effectively communicate these requirements with internal developers and testers so that they clearly understand their tasks and priorities.
  • Business analyst for an integral product line that enables comparing illustrations across multiple scenarios and multiple products for CAUL, GUL, and IUL.
  • Debugged complex software issues, leading to a more stable product release.
  • Participated in regular code reviews, ensuring high-quality standards were consistently met across all development efforts.
  • Corrected, modified and upgraded software to improve performance.

Senior Professional Actuary

DXC Technology
06.2022 - 01.2023
  • Designing an illustrations system in VPMS to be used as the standard for new customers and is integrable with current DXC platforms.
  • Adding illustration calculations and rates for first client in VPMS.


Actuarial Assistant

Transamerica
12.2007 - 02.2014
  • Valuation
  • Created, updated, and maintained Sarbanes-Oxley binders for quarterly and annual reporting.
  • Annual IFRS reporting for various schedules and footnotes.
  • Maintained the Valuation Systems (ArcVal, Excel, and AXIS) from the ground-up which includes extract management, new assumption reviews/updates, new version upgrades and audits.
  • Converted current ArcVal plans to GGY Axis.
  • Risk Management and Modeling
  • Financial modeling: create, test and maintain financial cash flow models for P&L analysis, Embedded Value and Economic Reporting. Experience working with TAS (Tillinghast Actuarial Software) and GGY AXIS.
  • Provided technical assistance to audit teams during annual reviews of actuarial assumptions and methodologies.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Elizabethtown College

Master of Science - Applied Statistics

West Chester University

Skills

  • VBnet, Crystal Reports, Visual Studio, JIRA, Microsoft Office, ArcVal, GGY Axis, Team Foundation Server, GitHub, SQL, SAS
  • Agile Workflow, Scrum, Sharepoint, Salesforce

Certification

Society of Actuaries Exams completed: P, FM, MLC, MFE, C and FAP Interim Assessment

Timeline

Senior Professional Actuary

DXC Technology
06.2022 - 01.2023

Lead Actuarial Developer

IPipeline Inc.
02.2014 - Current

Actuarial Assistant

Transamerica
12.2007 - 02.2014

Bachelor of Science - Physics

Elizabethtown College

Master of Science - Applied Statistics

West Chester University

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