Dean Sharrard, ASA

Welcome to my website!

Dean Sharrard - Resume.pdf Dean Sharrard - Resume.pdf
Size : 741.579 Kb
Type : pdf

About Me

  I am a business-savvy individual who is very dedicated and driven to be successful in everything I do. I am a very hard-working person who is dependable and always energetic to learn new things. Learning new things makes me versatile and better qualified for a skilled profession in the future.

   I am a graduate student from Michigan State University Lyman Briggs College. I have a Bachelors of Science with a major in Statistics and a specialization in Actuarial Science.

   I am currently an Actuary for Jackson National Life who became credentiale as an ASA in May 2021.

Types of Classes I Took at MSU

     While Attending Michigan State University I took all my core science classes such as biology, chemistry, physics, and their combined laboratories through the honors college known as Lyman Briggs. For all who may not know, Lyman Briggs College is mostly for pre-med students who want to take a more advanced version of these core science classes in order to improve their chances of getting into med school. Furthermore, I also had to take a History, Physiology & Sociology of Science (HPS) class every year in addition to university requirements in order to improve writing skills along with learning important knowledge that may be applicable in the future.

     Outside of Lyman Briggs I took all my math, statistics, finance, accounting, economics, software packages, and actuarial science classes.

Software Skills 

  • Excel, VBA, SAS, MATLAB, R Studio, Tableau, Triton, MG-ALFA, Polysystems, Python, and PowerShell

Actuarial Exams Passed

  • FM/2 Exam (Passed 12/9/2013)
  • P/1 Exam (Passed 5/12/2016)
  • MFE/3F Exam (Passed 11/17/2016)
  • VEE's - (Passed 4/17/2017)
  • C/4 Exam (Passed 2/6/2018)
  • FAP (Passed 7/3/2018)
  • LTAM/5 Exam (Passed 7/17/2020)
  • Predictive Analytics (Passed 12/10/2020)
  • ASA Credentials (May 2021)!
  • FSA Modules (ILA Passed 5/10/2021)
  • LPM - Sitting 11/10/2021

Comments

  If interested in contacting me about my resume, job opportunities, or other related questions then you can reach me at my cell phone number 989-415-2421 or by email at sharrar6@msu.edu. 

I am always curious to hear and see what old classic cars other people have! I completely redid the entire body work on my 79' Monte Carlo and re-built the motor from scratch when I was in high school. The torque in this car is enough to lift the front tires off the ground when I have racing slicks on! Always up for discussions on how to maximize conversion of horsepower from the motor to the rear tires!

Hobbies

  I am a very outdoors person who enjoys playing any kind of sport, riding snowmobiles, snowboarding, riding four-wheelers, fishing, boating, figure-eight racing, working on my 79 Monte Carlo that I restored, and offroading in my 2000 F-250 Super Duty Truck.


Aspirations

I want to become an Actuary! I like learning new mathematical actuarial principles that I can apply to my daily job and life challenges. It is nice to know how to build amortization tables to demonstrate paying off the highest interest debts are most important (FM/2). It useful to calculate expected returns through probability to see if your investment is worth while (P/1). It doesn't hurt to know how to 'estimate' expected stock price movements with Black Scholes equations (MFE/3)! When it comes to building sports models, we have to able to assign credibility to our models. Using Bühlmann credibility, we can determine the correct credibility we should assign to our experience data we have in our model (C/4). Knowledge about calculating annuities/insurance/pension cost with mortality tables can be helpful when investing for retirement (LTAM/5). It is always nice to have a method for cleaning large datasets so I can make intuitive visual graphs to predict the future (Predictive Analytics).

I manage my time properly so I can enjoy my hobbies, while also getting an ample amount of work done. I live by this quote that I learned from my dad which has been passed on to him by his father, "Whenever it is possible you should always work smarter instead of working harder."

Photo Gallery