Experience

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  Aon

  Jan 2008 - Sept 2012

  Advanced actuarial student

  § Served as day to day client contact for smaller pension funds§ Used pension modeling software to perform stochastic forecasts of pension assets and liabilities§ Presented annual actuarial results to client’s Finance and HR departments

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  Willis towers watson

  Sept 2012 - Dec 2017

  Actuarial consultant

  § Served as strategic advisor to clients for Pension Risk Transfer transactions§ Led a team of junior actuaries for office’s largest client, a $4 billion pension fund§ Served as Actuarial Exam Program Leader for the St. Louis office§ Managed all actuarial aspects of pension funds including: demographic experience studies,annual valuations, model development and production, as well as US GAAP and tax filingrequirements§ Implemented and monitored hedging strategies for well-funded pension plans Show less

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  Voya financial

  Dec 2017 - Aug 2018

  Actuary manager

  § Performed cash flow testing using Prophet actuarial models for life insurance products§ Determined economic capital amounts for life and annuity products§ Partnered with investment management to set investment mandates for life and annuity products§ Performed equity and interest rate stress tests to determine the impact on US GAAP financials§ Designed option greek tracking tool for variable annuity business using VBA§ Reduced error in call option modeling for indexed universal life products Show less

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  Massmutual

  Aug 2018 - now

  Head of annuity pricing

  § Manage a multi-layered annuity pricing organization of 11 actuaries and $10B+ in annual sales§ Regularly present to C-suite on complex annuity pricing initiatives such as new product launchesand profitability optimization for existing products§ Successfully negotiated with ERM, Corporate Oversight, and ALM to launch a variable annuitywith a lifetime income rider in an ultra-low interest rate environment§ Voting member and active participant on multiple cross-enterprise risk & pricing committees§ Ensured staff had exposure and presentation opportunities with senior management Show less