Bolun (Sam) Cui

MFI Student

Campus

  • Downtown Toronto (St. George)

Areas of Interest

  • UW ActSci Mentor
  • Guitar
  • Piano
  • Skiing
  • Breakdancing

Biography

With more than two years working experience at various companies in insurance industry, Sam is a passionate, dedicated, and detailoriented actuarial professional with the ability to learn and adapt in a fast-paced environment. He also has demonstrated strong problem-solving, time-management, and interpersonal skills.

Experience

Moody’s Analytics, Toronto
Actuarial Software Programmer, May 2023 - Jul. 2023 & May 2022 - Aug. 2022

  • Enabled “Reserve Components” calendar year report in Universal Life module under dynamic valuation in AXIS.
  • Developed a new Calendar year report named “User Defined Category Details” in AXIS.
  • Fixed & self tested 3+ existing bugs found by clients in AXIS.

Ivari, Toronto
Corporate Actuarial Assistant, Sep. 2021 - Dec. 2021

  • Assisted in the Quarter End Valuation process & IFRS 17 Change management using AXIS & Excel.
  • Developed VBA macro tools to automate the Risk Integrity system reconciliation process.

Aviva, Toronto
Pricing Actuarial Analyst, Jan. 2021 - Apr. 2021

  • Automated the Tier Analysis Process using VBA to improveefficiency, resulting in a much faster workflow.
  • Refined & added enhancements to internal SAS data tools to improve code readability & reduce running time.

NN Life Insurance Co. Ltd.
Actuarial Analyst, Sep. 2019 - Apr. 2020

  • Assisted in developing the company’s MS Azure Database by building ETL pipelines in Azure Data Factory & writing T SQL queries in Azure Data Studio.
  • Optimized & automated 5+ Data Transformation processes using Qlikview to increase productivity.
  • Conducted User Acceptance Tests using Qlikview & Excel to ensure the correctness of SQL queries.

Skills

  • Technical: Python
  • R
  • C/C++
  • SQL
  • SAS
  • Excel VBA
  • Qlikeview
  • AXIS
  • Microsoft 365

Professional Certificates & Awards

  • Society of Actuaries
    • P (Probability)
    • FM (Financial Mathematics)
    • IFM (Investment & Financial Markets)
    • LTAM (Long-Term Actuarial Mathematics)
    • SRM (Statistics for Risk Modelling)
    • FAM-S (Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics - Short-Term)

Education

Master of Financial Insurance, University of Toronto, 2023 - 2024
BMath (Honours), University of Waterloo, 2023
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