Life Insurance Project
Resume:
Robert W. Bryant **** *th Ave N
Saint Petersburg, Fl
33710
727-***-**** (Home)
727-***-**** (Cell)
ablb8j@r.postjobfree.com
Objective Skills
To obtain a dynamic position that will allow me to utilize Business Analysis
my skills and experience while making a significant -Elicitation
contribution to the organization's success -Liaising
-Interpersonal Skills
-Requirement gathering
-Requirement
documentation
-Requirement management
-Enterprise Modeling
-Process Modeling
-Use Cases
-Modeling diagrams
-Solution documentation
-Solution verification
-Solution validation
- User Acceptance
Testing
Life Insurance &
Annuities
-Actuarial Systems
- Illustrations
Platforms
-Policy Administration
Systems
-Policy Calculations
-System Validation
-IRS Codes 7702/7702A
Technologies Used
-CICS and TSO
-Policy Administration
Systems
- Illustration
Platforms
-CSC's VP/MS
-Visual Basic 2005 &
6.0
-Visual Basic for
Applications
-MS Excel
-MS Access
-MS Office Suite
-MS Project
-MS VISIO
-Corel Draw
-HTML, XML, CSS, DHTML,
ASP
Experience
Senior Actuarial Business June 2003 to
Analyst/Consultant Present
Actuarial Systems Group
SUBO Corporation, Saint Petersburg,
Florida
I was responsible for maintaining client accounts for 4
major Insurers, acting as a liaison between the client
business users and IT departments, identifying client
issues, problems or opportunities. Documenting client
requirements, business needs and business cases, and
developing solutions and tools needed to address these
issues, problems or opportunities.
Projects include:
Indentified an issue with the Guideline Premiums on a
converted block of policies. I was responsible for
documenting and developing the solution for the remediation
of this Guideline Premium issue. The Solution involved
data mining Policy Records, automating the access and
organization of these records and producing an automated
method for rebuilding the policy's Guideline Premium
history. This effort resulted in the client avoiding a
possible regulatory audit.
Managed a team of analyst and developers to design, build
and implement a set of tools aimed at automating and
standardizing the In Force Illustration capabilities for a
Closed Block of business. This project allowed the client
to focus their technology needs on active business and
provided them the ability to deliver outstanding service to
existing business.
I played an integral role as part of a conversion team that
successfully converted 300,000 Life Insurance policies from
the Life 70 Policy Administration System onto the Cyber
Life Policy Administration System. Successful completion
of this project enabled the client to make significant
upgrades to their technology
Developed a methodology to automate the testing process for
an implementation of the external calculation engine VP/MS
for a Vantage Conversion. Was responsible for identifying
data needs, tools development, calculation verification and
ongoing support in a challenging onshore/offshore
environment.
As a key member of the Fusion Vantage conversion team, we
were responsible for the successful conversion and
unification from multiple platforms onto a single instance
of Vantage 20.0.
Lead Actuarial BA for a client's Definition of Life
Insurance Project, 15.4 policy administration conversion
and Legal Ops data base development.
Lead Actuarial Programmer/Analyst February 1996 to
Actuarial Systems Department June 2003
AEGON Financial Group, Saint Petersburg,
Florida
As the lead Actuarial Programmer/Analyst I was responsible
for managing the development team of the Actuarial Systems
Department. Duties of this area involved creating tools to
perform various actuarial functions, system validation,
Product Support, Marketing Initiatives and ad hoc request
form the Legal Department
Accomplishments Include:
Planning, designing, developing, implementing and
maintaining the first ever In Force Illustration Platform
developed at AEGON.
Instrumental in establishing the Actuarial Systems
Department as a business unit within the Actuarial
Department.
Developed the strategy to address the IRS Procedures 99-27,
2001-42 (Inadvertent MEC process). This analysis and
automated method resulted in AEGON saving in excess of $8
million in toll charges, interest and penalties
Devised a reverse engineering strategy to conduct a
competitive markets study using competitor's sales
illustration software and product documentation to measure
AEGON's product feature's comparability with other insurers.
Developed numerous tools to validate system calculations for
Surrender Charges, Loan activity, Guideline Premiums
Calculations, TAMRA Premium Calculations, monthly processing
among other.
Provided superior production support to the IT and Policy
Service areas
Clients
AEGON Financial Partners
Lincoln Financial Group
ING Financial Services Division
Mass Mutual
AVIVA Life
Education
Bachelor of Science in Education Awarded December
University of South Florida 1994
Major: Education Minor: Mathematics Final GPA 3.57
Associations, Certifications & Awards
Member International Institute of Business Analyst (IIBA)
Awarded Outstanding Scholastic Achievement Award June 1993,
December, 1993, June 1994 and December 1994
Listed as WHO's WHO among American Colleges
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