Experience

Senior Actuarial Analyst, Farmers Insurance Group

July 2006 to March 2009

• Facilitated production of a complete factor refresh for the auto book of business through use of the COM+ protocol, external Generalized Linear Modeling tools, modified binary files and Excel user interface. Provided users with flexibility to determine for each variable how rates would be determined (offset, interacted, grouped, or simple categorical).
• Adapted ratemaking process for entire homeowners book of business to reflect previously uncalculated effects of differing loss experience between lines.
• Created reports to provide insight into business patterns based on exposure shifts. Provided both precision at the granular level as well as high-level overviews.
• Restructured multiple data pulling programs to reflect changes in business practice, to streamline execution and to ease maintenance.
• Provided assistance in dealing with various legacy database systems and in integrating across different platforms.

Lab Assistant, Program in Computing Department, UCLA

Sepetember 2005 to June 2006

• Ensure proper operation of student systems
• Help students programming in C++, HTML, CSS, Javascript, Perl and Scheme

Freelance web development

July 2004 to June 2006

• Work done in multiple server side languages (PHP, Python, etc)
• Created AJAX interfaces
• Implement various libraries such as lunar calendar and solar astronomical calculations

Awards

• Superior Service, Farmers Insurance Group, 2007

Programming Languages

Extensive experience in

C, C++, Java, SQL, Visual Basic 6, SAS, Perl, Haskell, PHP, client side web development (HTML, CSS and Javascript), shell script

Limited experience in

C#, Python, Scheme, D

Systems Experience

Operating systems

Windows, Linux, AIX

Databases

MySQL, SQLite, IBM DB2, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Access

Education

• Bachelor of Science: June 2006
• Math/Applied Science, Actuarial Plan, Specializing in Computing
• University of California, Los Angeles

Certifications

• Society of Actuaries exams P, FM, M and C
• Casualty Actuary Society exam 6
• Completed all VEE requirements

Open Source

• Long time open source contributor.
• Provided patches for extra functionality and bug fixes in multiple projects and multiple languages.
• Created multiple projects.
• Samples of some recent projects are available on Github: http://github.com/snoyberg.
• Blog on open source web development: http://blog.snoyman.com.

References

Available upon request.