About The Author
Hi there, welcome to my blog! I am currently working as a data scientist. I am passionate about transforming business through my actuarial and data science knowledge.
Academic Background
I did my actuarial science undergraduate degree in The Australian National University back in 2009. Ironically I had no clue what actuarial science or statistics is about when I entered into university. It was one of my final year GLM project sparked my interest in statistics and data science.
In 2018, I have enrolled myself into Master of IT in Business (Analytics) in Singapore Management University.
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Throughout my study in SMU, I studied various types of analytics, including customer analytics, social analytics, visual analytics, and operation analytics, to gain a broad understanding of various analytics techniques.
I also specialized in digital transformation strategy in my master course. During the middle of the pandemic, I also did a consulting job for a local SME that is in the oil & gas industry under the guidance of my SMU professors. The task involved preparing a business proposal on how the SME could leverage its current strength to pivot the current business to venture into a new business market. This would help the SME to ensure its revised business model is more resilient to external market forces.
I have also written a paper on how modern data science techniques can be used to complement conventional actuarial analysis together with my professor Kam Tin Seong. I am honored to share my paper & learning at Singapore Actuarial Society and useR conference 2021.
Work Experience
I have worked as an actuary in both life insurance and general insurance for the first 10 years of my career before I decided to do a mid career switch into data science.
My last day at Income + commencement date for my master degree. They happened to be on the same day!
Throughout my career, I have worked on the following:
- Product pricing on various life, general and group insurance products
- Experience analysis
- Participating fund management
- Distribution compensation
- End to end machine learning related project
- New business model
In conclusion, my background & experience can be summarized as following:
Data Scientist
Partner Re
Aug 2022 - Present
Master of IT in Business
Singapore Management University
Jul 2022
Various Actuarial Functions & Roles
NTUC Income Insurance Co-operative Limited
Aug 2015 - Jul 2022
Actuarial Pricing Senior Executive
Great Eastern Life Assurance Co Ltd
Oct 2014 - Jun 2015
Actuarial Pricing Senior Executive
Prudential Assurance Company Singapore
Mar 2012 - Oct 2014
Bachelor of Actuarial Studies
The Australian National University
Dec 2019
Do visit my LinkedIn page or contact me if you are interested to find out more on my work experience!
Contact
Feel free to contact me on email or LinkedIn.