Senior Defined Benefits Technical Analyst Resume Little Falls, NJ - Hire IT People

TECHNICAL 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
Operating Systems: Microsoft Windows/XP, Open VMS, VM/CMS, MS-DOS/DOS, UNIX

PROFESSIONAL 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.
Responsible for testing of administration/projection 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

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 Desktop and Web-based illustration systems.
Developed specifications for Graphic User Interfaces, calculations and reports for Long-Term Care and Life insurance products including automated GUIs written in Visual Basic in Excel.
Responsible for testing of illustration systems calculations, developed 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 (including Social Security estimates, 401(k)Employee Stock Option and Pension Plan benefits) Dynamic Link 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:

Major contributor to second - to-die product management team.
Created and conducted training classes and presentations on Life Insurance productsconcepts, principles, mathematics and programming techniques.
Assisted Actuaries with the design of Generic Mortgage 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. Contact for the RACF (Resource Allocation Control Facility) data security utility.
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 Whole Life, Variable Whole Life, Term and Annuity products as well as supplementary benefits and riders for these products.