William Abram

Director, Life Actuary

San Antonio, Texas, United States

About

Experience

  • USAA (Full-time · 5 yrs 7 mos)
    • Director, Life Actuary
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 11 mos

      Leading a team responsible for valuation of life and health insurance, financial forecasting, and special projects including LDTI, CECL, and modernization initiatives.

    • Life Actuary Senior
      Jul 2022 - Sep 2023 · 1 yr 3 mos

      Life Actuary in Life Actuarial Valuation, responsible for a range of activities including LDTI and CECL implementation, model development, documentation, testing, and governance initiatives, and general valuation support across product lines.

    • Life Actuary
      Jan 2021 - Jul 2022 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Life Actuary in Life Actuarial Valuation department within the Senior Financial Office. Responsible for support on various projects, governance initiatives, and valuation across product lines.

  • Senior Consulting Actuary at Allen Bailey & Associates
    Oct 2020 - Dec 2020 · 3 mos

    Responsible for managing staff and client relationships as well as supporting product design, pricing, modeling, forecasting, valuation and financial reporting.

  • USAA (Full-time · 2 yrs 2 mos)
    • Director, Quantitative Risk Management
      Feb 2020 - Oct 2020 · 9 mos

      Director of the Enterprise Model Risk Management model validation team responsible for models in the Financial Advice and Solutions Group, including USAA Life Company.

    • Life Actuarial Associate
      Sep 2018 - Feb 2020 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Life Actuarial Associate, working in Deferred Annuity, Immediate Annuity, Asset, and Catastrophic Mortality Modeling.

  • Senior Actuarial Associate at Great-West Financial
    Aug 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Responsible for variable annuity valuation under IFRS, US GAAP, and US Statutory accounting regimes.

  • Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Hillsdale College
    Aug 2013 - Aug 2017 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    I have taught courses in Integrated Calculus I-A, Integrated Calculus I-B, Calculus 1, Calculus 2, Calculus 3, Linear Algebra, Non-Euclidean Geometry, Theory of Probability, Mathematical Modeling (in Financial Economics), Actuarial Mathematics, Financial Mathematics, Topology, and Abstract Algebra. I have also guided student research projects in evolutionary game theory applied to political economics, symbolic dynamical systems, financial modeling, and econometric analysis in labor economics.