Mark Funke

Mark Funke

Actuarial Intern

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Owner of Little Ember Co

  • Education

    • University of Wisconsin-Madison

      2009 - 2012
      Bachelor of Business Administration Actuarial Science, Risk Management and Insurance
  • Experience

    • Milliman

      Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
      Actuarial Intern
    • Milliman

      Feb 2013 - Jan 2018
      Actuary

      Medicaid Managed Care-Developed capitation rates for the Statewide Medicaid Managed Care (SMMC) program in the state of Florida-Managed and trained six professional staff members in completing various SAS and Excel projects, focusing on financial data processing and modeling of multiple terabytes of dataMedicare Advantage-Headed the Part A/B side of the data processing and rate modeling teams while completing a total of 64 MA-PD bids in six states for two clients

    • Bouldering Project

      Apr 2018 - Jan 2020
      Marketing Manager

      -Founded marketing and data analytics department for start-up rock climbing, yoga, and fitness facility-Increased annualized membership growth from 16% before joining the team to 75% in 2019 -Increased average daily check-ins by 77% from 2018 to 2019-Proposed business expansion plan that is being used for 2 new Bouldering Project locations-Leveraged current and past customer data, Google API, and market demographics to model potential membership in various cities around the country Show less

    • Self Employed

      Feb 2020 - Jun 2020
      Data Analytics Consultant

      -Develop monthly budget and financial projections for local publishing company-Built drug adherence study for alternative pharmacy network, estimating potential long term cost savings from decreasing drug copays

    • Metis

      Jun 2020 - Sept 2020
      Data Science Fellow

      - Completed 12 week intensive Data Science bootcamp- Topic modeled the last 50 years of L.G.B.T.Q New York Times articles using Natural Language Processing, Latent Dirichlet Allocation, and Non-Negative Matrix Factorization- Created 2-year recidivism analysis for defendants in Broward County, FL with logistic regression and transformed features to remove racial bias found in popular recidivism risk score tools.

    • Milliman

      Oct 2020 - Jul 2021
      Data Scientist
    • Little Ember Co

      Oct 2021 - now
      Owner

      Founded mobile sauna delivery business serving the Minneapolis/St Paul area.Own and operate 3 mobile sauna rental units.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Associate of the Society of Actuaries

      Society of Actuaries
      May 2016