Work Experience

June 2017 – Present: Pacific Life

Forensic Life Insurance Underwriter

  • Forensics Duties:
    • Review post issue data sources for fraud and misrepresentation
    • Report misrepresentations to legal with thorough write ups
    • Data analysis on post issue cases for risk misclassifications
    • Providing high level analytic reports on a quarterly basis
    • Project Work with management & I.T. with the goal of creating better working systems for the Underwriter of The Future.
  • Production Duties:
    • Performs risk assessment of medical and non-medical risks utilizing applications, medical records, MIB, IRIX, MVR, & Alternate Data Sources to create competitive and appropriately rated offers while maintaining high audit scores with detailed documentation.
    • Experience in full medical and accelerated underwriting.
    • Provides a holistic approach to rating the risk working with company manuals and published guidelines, state and federal requirements and utilizing medical directors and consults as needed

October 2015 – February 2016/October 2016 – January 2017: Out:think Group

Web Developer

  • Front end development using WordPress
  • Developed child-themes from premade WordPress themes
  • Customized premade WordPress themes
  • Converted Photoshop images to HTML5/CSS3 using the Bootstrap framework
  • Troubleshooting issues with customers
  • Quality checked websites on various platforms and wrote reports on the results
  • Developed and analyzed the marketing strategies for customers

February 2016 – July 2016: BWXTechnologies

IT Intern

  • Responsible for enhancing and upgrading the division’s real-time cost tracking system to support project management. Improvements consisted of re-working the current systems by implementing Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) within their Excel spreadsheets to present data in an easy to read manner & removing redundancies.
  • Evaluated current systems & spreadsheets for logic and computational errors to improve data reliability.
  • Assisted in producing user documentation and defining a data dictionary.
  • Populated current systems with legacy system data.

May 2015 – November 2017: Owner of Woodsmen Beard Co.

IT Manager & Business Manager

  • Maintained IT system assurance from software maintenance to maximizing software utilization to increasing efficiency and tracking of business need
  • Responsible for E-commerce division to ensure our web presence and social media marketing are robust
  • Built and maintained E-commerce website using WordPress, CSS 3, and the Bootstrap framework
  • Developed Business to Business Sales
  • Responsible for troubleshooting any problems that may occur
  • Business Manager responsibilities include: managing business chain process from receipt to order, customer inquiries, accounts payable, accounts receivable and shipping
  • Sold the business in November 2017 for a profit

March 2015 – May 2015: Alpha10

Technical Coordinator/Sales Support Internship

  • Developed and maintained customer and inventory databases using Microsoft Excel
  • Gathered and organized all customer data using a Customer Relationship Platform
  • Developed a landing page
  • Researched and contacted possible clients

May 2009 – July 2017: Associated Podiatry of Central Virginia

Administrative Assistant

  • Scheduled Appointments
  • Managed inventory
  • Addressed In-house customer service issues
  • Troubleshot and installed software