R ima El-Kadi
**** **** **** ***, *****, Houston, TX
Telephone No: 443-***-**** E-mail: r *********@*****.***
Summary
Multi-dimensional administrator, and product development, with planning and
o rientation experience, primarily in health insurance. Proven to effectively research and
develop products to maximize business development. Versatile leader, creative thinker with
s trong communication and excellent interpersonal skills, extremely determined, self-
motivated and self-disciplined.
Professional Experience
Med gulf Insurance & Reinsurance, Beirut, Lebanon
5/1999 - 8/2011
Senior Underwriter
• Supervised a 5-7 persons’ team that was responsible for supporting over 70
employees with retention, promotions, and insurance claims.
• Ensured daily, weekly, and monthly projects were met and improved work
submission from 1 day to 5 days.
• Managed service team for quality assurance at the medical department responsible
for job management, adequate processes, and performance.
• Managed contract for health, t ravel, and life insurance policies.
• Trained around 100 new employees during my tenure on company’s computers,
software programs & insurance products available.
• Safeguarded and updated over 5 company programs and informed employees of new
departmental regulations by email, bulletin board, and weekly briefings
• Screened, assigned, and evaluated various companies’ requests such as assessing
r isks, pricing and contract administration; medical conditions, and sub limits in
order to retain the f low of business.
• Analyzed and investigated over 500 applications/month for fraud and abuse, which
resulted in saving the company around $300,000 in insurance claims
• Developed and t rained 100 employees from 10 departments on various insurance
p roducts such as health, t ravel, and life insurance which saved the company over
$25,000.00 annually.
• Managed implementation project of a new company system called I MS which cost the
company around $ 1,000,000.
• Provided support to the sales, branches, and claims departments to solve issues such
us client’s conflicts which resulted in zero civil lawsuits towards the company.
• Reported, planned, analyzed development, and designed procedures to meet
deadlines and to maximize business and work f low
Arab Universal Insurance, Beirut, Lebanon
2/1996-5/1999
Junior Underwriter
• Designed and implemented establishment plan and administered work flow
• Planned work to meet departmental policies and managed procedures to meet
deadlines
• Conducted research and collected information for new applications analysis
• Provided support to other department
Heliopolis Diet Center, Beirut, Lebanon
3/1994 - 2/1996
Assistant Manager
Responsible for designing and executing all levels of service development, by supervising of
a ll activities in the Diet Center, designed to fur ther business development
• Conducted market research and developed Marketing Plan for new market segment
• Managed service team to ensure quality
• Designed and marketing strategy to increase sales
• Launched of different marketing and initiatives, resulting in new market penetration
• Designed events supporting business objectives
• Constructed strategic reports by overseeing and evaluating returns on all marketing
initiatives
• Developed strategic plan to drive growth in market share
Academic Background
August 2011-June 2013 Masters Degree of Business Administration (Concentration
Health Care Management) from Keller Graduate School of Management -Houston-United
States of America
July 1994 Bachelor Degree of Science major Nutrition & Dietetics from the
American University of Beirut-Beirut-Lebanon
July 1989 Lebanese Baccalaureate in Experimental Sciences Patriarchal
College-Beirut-Lebanon
Skills
• Leadership ability and excellent communication and in terpersonal skills
• Computer Skills In ternet Research, Email, M icrosoft Word,
M icrosoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint and Microsoft Outlook Express
• Languages English, French and Arabic
References
• Available upon request