Senior Defined Benefits Technical Analyst Resume
Little Falls, NJ
COMPUTER SKILLS:
Languages: Microsoft Visual C, Oracle Pro*C for Windows, IBM 370 C, PL/1, REXXPC - REXX, EXEC2, EXEC1, FORTRAN, VSBASIC, PC-BASIC, SAS, BenXL, COBOLAssembler, Korn Shell, DEC BASIC, Visual Basic in Microsoft Excel
Hardware: IBM 360/370, TELEX Terminals, IBM Compatible PCs, VAX, DEC ALPHA
Software: Novelle Netware, Microsoft LAN Manager, Lotus 123 (MACROS), Oracle SQL*Plus, Microsoft Outlook/Exchange, Microsoft Office, Lotus NotesReach, PROFS/Office Vision, Mercury Test Director, Sybase Rapid SQL
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows/XP, Open VMS, VM/CMS, MS-DOS/DOS, UNIX
EXPERIENCE:
Confidential, Little Falls, NJ
Senior Defined Benefits Technical Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Managed all aspects of Initial and annually recalculated Required Minimum
- Distributions for 20 plus Defined Benefit (Pension) plans and operations support.
- Quality Assured administration and illustration systems calculations and enhancements for Pension Protection Act and 409(a) non - qualified Pension plans.
- Coordinated numerous large volume conversion data clean-up and research projects.
Confidential, Bridgewater, NJ
Senior Product Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Managed all aspects of Individual and Multi - Life (Group) Long-Term Care insurance illustrations projects including release coordination, running weekly status meetings, serving as liaison between business partners and vendors and managing
- Quality Assurance staff to introduce new products to Windows Desktop and World
- Wide Web-based illustration systems.
- Developed specifications for Graphic User Interfaces, calculations and reports for Annuities, Long-Term Care and Life insurance products including automated
- GUIs written in Visual Basic in Excel.
- Quality assured illustration systems calculations, developed actuarial calculations testing spreadsheets in Excel.
Confidential, Verona, NJ
Assistant Actuary
Responsibilities:
- Maintained source save library of Executables, Sub - Routines and COM files.
- Created search and fix programs for administration system data problems.
- Created, maintained, enhanced and updated actuarial calculation programs written in DEC
- BASIC utilizing indexed files in Datatrieve for Traditional Whole Life second-to-die and
- Variable and Universal Whole Life second-to-die and single Life Insurance products as well as supplementary benefits and riders for these products in several transaction- based administration systems.
Confidential, Somerset, NJ
Systems Engineer
Responsibilities:
- Performed the system liaison function between programmers and end users to develop systems requirements and specifications that met client plan needs.
- Designed, coded and maintained Pension administration and illustration systems for various client organization applications using BenXL (a proprietary object - oriented C-like scripting language) in the Windows NT environment.
- Developed and helped implement testing procedures and documentation procedures for all actuarial programming. Designed Oracle Database tables and maintained (time based) actuarial rates and values on these tables.
- Performed verification of final Pension plan benefits through hand calculations and worksheet design for various types of Pension plans for various client organizations.
- Scripted, flow-charted and helped implement Voice Response Systems for these plans.
Confidential, Parsippany, NJ
Consultant
Responsibilities:
- Designed, coded and maintained Pension administration, valuation, voice response and illustration system actuarial calculations Confidential Libraries for various client plans using Visual C and Oracle Pro*C in the Windows environment.
- Conducted code reviews and in - depth instructional sessions on benefits and benefit calculations for new employees and direct reports.
- Designed, Coded and maintained 401(k) and ESOP (Employee Stock Option Plan) Interactive
- Voice Response System applications using C in UNIX.
Confidential, Newark, NJ
Assistant Programming Analyst
Responsibilities:
- Created and conducted training classes and presentations on Life Insurance productsconcepts, principles, mathematics and programming techniques.
- Assisted Actuaries with the design of Confidential Decreasing Term product.
- Created methodology and specifications for Supplementary Life Insurance benefits.
- Authored company - wide product specification memos and administrated the on-line facility for holding these memos.
- Maintained VM/CMS accounts for users and set up new accounts.
- Responsible for the billing of the accounts for the actuarial product development department. Produced monthly company-wide CMS tips and set up and maintained project disks for the
- corporate actuarial and regional home offices.
- Created, maintained, enhanced and updated actuarial calculation programs written in C, REXX, PL/1, FORTRAN, VSBASIC, EXEC2, EXEC1, PC-BASIC and DMS panels for traditional