Experience
Catastrophe Modeling Intern at AIG
I spent May 2013- August 2013 working as a Catastrophe Modeling Intern at AIG in Boston, MA. This opportunity served as a great learning experience not just for technical skills, but for the insurance industry as a whole. The Catastrophe Modeling department worked as a team of about 10 employees in order to model different statement of values in order to access the catastrophe risk. This was one of my primary duties, but I also got the chance to work with several other departments. I worked with the Actuarial Department on rate monitoring which took place every week. This involved sending emails or calling approximately 20 underwriters each week to discuss policies and how they changed on a year to year basis for rate monitoring. I also worked with the Municipality Clearance team to search through access databases to make sure new policies were not overlapping with current policies. Aside from these, I also got the opportunity to train new co-ops coming in on catastrophe modeling software, rate monitoring procedures, and municipality clearance steps. Finally, I got to work with the Claims Department to create a report about Sandy losses that AIG experienced that would later be presented to management after I left.
I had a lot of experience with excel over the summer. One project I worked on in excel started when my manager asked me to compare two account lists for differences. As this was a monthly task, I made a sheet in excel which the two account lists could be pasted into and it would provide a column by column analysis of the policies, highlighting any differences that exceeded 1%. This was done mostly through index match formulas and conditional formatting. Another excel project I worked on was creating a search-able database of all the inquiries with underwriters. I had to back up all conversations on a shared drive to document what was talked about in case it was ever questioned. As I noticed we were getting more and more emails stored, it got harder and harder to look through them. As such, I created an excel sheet that was organized by month containing policies and the hyper-links to each email conversation stores that could be searched by policy number to provide a quick and easy way to find the information.
Leadership
I am currently the Public Relations Chair of the Temple University eSports club. We founded this club in Spring 2014 in order to help unite students across Temple University who wished to compete in video game tournaments. As we are a fairly new club, we had to go through several steps in order to become an official club, as well as attending meetings to improve our leadership capabilities. We have several events and meetings planned for this semester and hope to gain more members, as we currently have 23. My main duty as the Public Relations chair is to maintain our social media websites, including Facebook, Twitter, and our website. Aside from this, I am involved in communicating with our members and recruiting new members across campus.