Blake Miller, PMP

Experience

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  Wisconsin Lutheran College

  Aug 2010 - May 2011

  Vice President of Finance

  While serving as a member of the Student Senate, I regulated and approved budgets for the clubs, organizations, and student sponsored activities throughout the entirety of the campus.

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  Xanterra Parks & Resorts

  May 2011 - Oct 2011

  Night Auditor

  As an auditor for the Old Faithful Inn in Yellowstone National Park I input and balanced the sales from the several revenue centers within the Inn.

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  Northwestern Mutual

  Feb 2012 - Mar 2014

  Life Underwriting Specialist

  Evaluated unique medical and financial data as a part of the elite Large Case underwriting division in order to provide optimal coverage while maintaining the company’s underwriting standards.►Progressed through training courses at an accelerated pace ahead of a class of fifteen individuals to achieve an early release into an independent underwriting role.►Earned position on the Large Case underwriting team in order to provide exceptional and efficient services to the top agents across the nation.►Frequently analyzed unique medical information by making logical judgments for data that differed from the medical underwriting standards.►Participated in the annual divisional meeting by presenting updated educational information to hundreds of fellow coworkers. Show less

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  Monitor Liability Managers (a W. R. Berkley Company)

  Mar 2014 - Dec 2015

  Liability Underwriter

  Sole underwriter in a six-state region for three key insurance products: D&O, EPL, & Fiduciary. Responsible for obtaining sufficient data for the underwriting process and utilizing complex data analysis to create a customized quote to include optimal pricing and coverage for client and employer.►Promptly developed necessary knowledge for the industry in order to accurately communicate policy language and policy details to counterparts in the field.►Displayed evolving aptitude for technical proficiencies during upgrade of underwriting computing system through personal testing of new systems.►Performed in-depth risk and financial analysis of clients’ policies, procedures, and relevant financial data in order to discover outlying trends differing from the actuarial model. ►Pursued further education opportunities by passing multiple tests towards RPLU (Registered Professional Liability Underwriter) designation.►Created efficiencies and optimized task handling in order to increase received premium by >10% within assigned six-state region for both years at employer. Show less

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  Northwestern Mutual

  Jun 2016 - Jun 2017

  Senior Life Specialist

  Underwriting representative in Greater Denver Area for Northwestern Mutual's groundbreaking New Issue Relationship Team, working first hand with counterparts in the field. Performing exceptional risk analysis practices while building relationships with select network offices around the country, with emphasis on the top-performing Denver Theodore Office.►Perform risk assessments on a high volume of cases, including policy amounts of up to $2,000,000.►Constantly deliver and gather knowledge of practices in order to bridge the physical and information gap between the home office in Milwaukee and field counterparts around the country.►Works with management in order to eliminate inefficiencies in daily practices in order to increase team production efficiency.►Established independent underwriting presence in Denver area while maintaining strong bond to home office in Milwaukee, WI. Show less

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  RevGen Partners

  Jun 2017 - Sept 2021

  Versatile leader serving in large spectrum of roles and industries. Experience leading Agile-focused training sessions, collaborative brainstorming sessions with clients, QA testing, retrospectives, and daily stand-ups. ►Member of philanthropic branch, RevGenerosity, as lead of the bi-annual Financial Giving Cycle. Responsibilities include education and promotion of the process, intake and review of applications, presentation of recommendations to Senior Leadership, and communication of grant approval or declination back to applicants.►Helped draft project SOW and Charter while serving as SME of project aimed at facilitating the prioritization and improvement of >100 identified issues across several departments. Project aided the client in moving towards a more efficient monthly accounting close process, a major milestone for the Fortune 500 company.►Created presentation to provide an in depth analysis and an easily digestible story that was presented to the client CEO and other Sr. Leadership. Presentation served vital role in building trust between RevGen and client to encourage sale of future work.►Led regression testing effort to ensure applications developed by RevGen. This included creating a regression testing form as well as the coordination of both internal and external testers.►Helped lead project to provide real-time reports to client. Personal efforts included leading training of new software, holding regular help sessions to ensure fluency in new reports, organizing and running QA testing and load testing, and creating video training with an SOP tailored for mass consumption.►Served in Scrum Master role for team of 10-15 leading daily stand-up sessions as well as sprint planning and retrospective (lessons learned) meetings in cadence with bi-weekly sprint schedule. Show less

  • Senior Consultant

    Apr 2019 - Sept 2021

  • Consultant

    Jun 2017 - Apr 2019
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  Metropolitan State University of Denver

  Sept 2021 - now

  • Manager, Technical Project Management

    Apr 2023 - now

  • Technical Project Manager

    Sept 2021 - Apr 2023