Mike Besso

Design, implement, monitor and support solutions that provide Zurich's Risk Engineering teams that quantify  performance, value, losses and opportunities.

Risk Engineering Data Mart

The data mart joins data from a variety of sources to allow stakeholders and business partners and over 1,000 users to:

• Develop insights
• Produce financial reports
• Support external and internal audits
• Analyze trends and impacts
• Manage and prospect customers
• Monitor systems and processes
• Automate and optimize processes
• Measure performance
• Access prebuilt workbooks, reports (static and interactive) and self-serve business intelligence tools

Book of Business Analysis and Loss Trending Tools

Develop and support analytic tools that provide loss and financial trend insights for books of business or specific customers.

Safety Culture Survey

Introduced diversity and inclusion concepts into a Safety Culture Survey customer product.

Team Collaboration Sites

Installed and managed Zurich's first SharePoint Services to provide over 500 global users with team sites and simple form-based workflows.

Delivered high-value mission-critical on time and on budget with high-quality.

Risk Engineering Workstation (Project/Quality Manager)           

Replaced a Lotus Notes database with a .Net/SQL Server solution that allowed online and offline users to: Clear and Maintain Clients; Create and Work Assignments; Manage Workflow; Manage Contracts, Report Time and Expense.

Loss Sensitive Invoicing System (Project/Quality Manager)

Delivered a validated web-based replacement of a legacy invoicing system.

Reinsurance Treaty Calculator (Project Manager)  

Implemented a treaty reinsurance pricing engine that replaced spreadsheet pricing tools with dynamic what-if models that tracked pricing decisions. 

Facultative Reinsurance Workbench (Project Manager)  

Replaced manual underwriting processes and spreadsheet with web-based automated workflow.

Global Reinsurance Engine (Project Manager)  

Implemented a reinsurance calculator that joined multiple data sources to calculate cessions.

NASDR'S Central Registration Depository 2.0 (Project Manager)

Managed the CRD team (100+) to increase scalability and add support for additional exchanges.

NASDR'S Central Registration Depository 1.0 (Developer)

Coded part of a Y2K solution that allowed regulators (all the states and the SEC) and brokers (5,600 of them) to meet regulatory requirements. 

Student Loan Consolidation System (Developer)

Replaced manual underwriting processes with a desktop/intranet application solution.

Developed and maintained custom applications for government agencies.

Developed, enhanced, tested and debugged security access and alarm monitoring products enabling marketing and sales to extend the functionality of current systems while increasing its product line.

Led a team in the analysis, implementation and testing of a what-if real estate valuation model.

Prepared and taught courses in programming, analog/digital electronics, robotics and artificial intelligence.

Graded papers and tutored electrical engineering students.