Independent Catatastrophe Management Consultant Resume Chicago, Illinois - Hire IT People

SUMMARY:

Twenty eight years of property and casualty insurance industry experience focused during the last sixteen years on catastrophe risk management and corporate accumulation control and mitigation.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SKILLS: RMS, EQECAT, MS Access, SQL Server, MS Excel, VBA

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Independent Catatastrophe Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

Provide consulting services to re/insurance companies on catastrophe risk policies, cat modeling procedures and software as well as technical system integration and data quality issues.

Confidential, Chicago, Illinois

Catastrophe Management Consultant

Responsibilities:

Provided system expertise and to the catastrophe risk management departments in North America and Munich.

Confidential

Global Head of Catastrophe Risk Management - Chief Risk Office

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities included catastrophe risk management and accumulation control of the multi-national industrial insurance portfolio of Confidential . Global management of resources and projects in Germany and the US. Additional responsibilities included the annual top down and bottom up assessment of catastrophic and accumulation risk as well as the quarterly reporting of significant catastrophe risks to the Board of Management.

Confidential

Head of Accumulation Risk & Security - Group Risk Controlling

Responsibilities:

Responsibilities included the development of a Group accumulation risk limit system framework, coordination and administration of a Group license agreement with Risk Management Solutions, development and implementation of a Group Catastrophe Risk Management policy and coordination across Group Center departments on a centralized natural catastrophe risk capital protection program.

Confidential, Burbank, CA

Assistant Vice President - Reinsurance & Catastrophe Management

Responsibilities:

Instituted natural catastrophe portfolio and per account loss modeling with Risk Management Solutions catastrophe loss modeling software under budget and ahead of schedule.
Developed the infrastructure and managed the centralized modeling of the AGR property portfolio for the placement of the AGR Re retrocessional catastrophe reinsurance programs and realized a savings of 21% over the expiring agreements.

Confidential, Schaumburg, Illinois

Manager - Natural Hazard Risk

Responsibilities:

Coordinated and supported the Group’s US commercial operations catastrophe loss modeling efforts. Also provided consultation on the development of an underwriter workstation to integrate catastrophe loss modeling in the underwriting and pricing of individual accounts.
Prepared the information necessary to save over $5,000,000 in property catastrophe reinsurance costs.
Provided catastrophe loss modeling to Group world-wide affiliated business units.
Recommended licensing of additional catastrophe loss model for comparative analytical purposes.

Confidential

Project Leader

Responsibilities:

Evaluated and recommended a mid-range platform alternative to support client computing that saved over $250,000 annually in mainframe costs.
Confidential /Home Insurance Company transaction of 1995.
Project leader in the development of a new corporate premium and loss reporting system. Project was completed on time and under budget.

Confidential, Long Grove, Illinois

Designer/Analyst

Responsibilities:

Joined company as a programmer and quickly progressed to a systems analyst with project leader responsibilities including project estimation, cost/benefit analyses as well as analysis and design.