PATRICIA SCHMIDT
East Hampton CT 06424
Tel: 860-***-****
Email: **********@*******.***
Summary
Associate consultant with extensive technical expertise in relational
databases, claims management, and risk control reporting. Have extensive
experience in technical support in the insurance brokerage industry in
property loss control, risk consulting, and claims advocacy.
Skilled in many insurance carrier claims systems such as Travelers e-Carma,
AIG Intellirisk, ACE-ESIS RiskAdvantage, etc., and brokerage industry
systems such as Marsh-STARS, and Aon RiskConsole. Also very familiar with
Microsoft Office products, including Word, Powerpoint, Excel and Outlook;
Adobe Acrobat, PaintShop Pro, R&R Report Writer, dBase, Freelance Graphics,
Lotus 1-2-3.
My expertise in these various claims management and risk control tools have
assisted clients and internal consultants in developing claims benchmarking
and trending analytics, and property loss control recommendation analysis.
Career History
MARSH INC., Hartford, CT 2004 - 2009
Associate Claims Consultant
Processed FinPro (Executive Risk), General Liability, and Excess
Liability claims for clients and internal consultants using required
carrier/internal company database systems, performed follow-up
diagnostics, responded to questions raised by clients regarding
outstanding claims, and developed custom report formats.
Served as site coordinator between global clients and internal
consultants for internal web-based collaboration system (e-room), which
is similar to Microsoft Sharepoint, to effectively communicate with each
other.
Provided staff and users with assistance solving computer related
problems, such as malfunctions and program problems.
Provided technical assistance to computer system users for company
products and operating systems.
Answered questions or resolved computer problems for internal and
external clients in person, via telephone or from remote location.
Tested, maintained, and monitored internal and external computer
applications and provided feedback and documentation to
managers/programmers.
Partnered with casualty brokers to assist in compiling data from workers
compensation claims and developed custom graphics/charts to convey claim
trends to clients.
MARSH INC., Hartford, CT 1997 - 2004
Associate Consultant
"Gatekeeper" of technical information for consolidated client location
information needed for marketing of property global renewals; maintained
client information, specifically construction, occupancy, protection and
exposure data, tracked changes, created different reports from database
for marketing submissions.
Involved in testing and troubleshooting problems with internal database
used to house COPE data, and worked with project manager/programmers to
resolve any issues.
Provided input for design of custom client-driven software used to manage
COPE (construction, occupancy, protection and exposure) data, along with
development of custom report criteria.
Effectively utilized Freelance, R&R Report Writer, and Power Point to
create various types of charts to represent client exposures in a
graphical format.
MARSH INC., Hartford, CT 1988 - 1997
Technical Assistant
Assisted property loss control consultants in their day-to-day consulting
efforts. Included answering phones, typing various letters and
correspondence to clients, using IBM system 34 for initial setup of
client locations and COPE (construction, occupancy, protection, exposure)
info;
Assisted in development of database system that maintained client
information necessary for insurance renewals and internal analysis.
JOHNSON & HIGGINS, Hartford, CT 1987 - 1988
Word Processor
Created/edited documents using IBM word processor for internal/external
clients with precision and accuracy.
Education
Various internal company sponsored insurance courses, which included
classes for different Microsoft products and databases.
Basics of Employment Liability Practices, Internal Company Course
Reading a General Liability Policy, Internal Company Course
Central CT State University
Computer Science
Introduction to Property and Casualty Insurance
Morse School of Business - Hartford, CT [pic]