(last updated: August 26, 2011)
Yan-chun James Tung, Ph. D.
Contact Information
Phone number and address avaiable upon request by
e-mail.
Objective
Seeking an Actuary position that offers opportunities to use my strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills from a mix of academic and industry experience, and supports my goal of obtaining FSA designation.
Summary
- Domain knowledge in the field of Defined Benefits, with experience in both ongoing benefit administration and implementation.
- Ph. D. Mathematician specializing in complex analysis and actuarial science, with original research publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as passage of several actuarial exams.
Actuary Exams
- Exam P, passed in February 2007.
- Exam FM, passed in May 2007.
- Exam MFE, passed in November 2007.
- Exam MLC, passed in May 2009.
- Exam C, scheduled for October 2011.
Professional Accomplishment
Benefits administration:
- Perform pension calculations in Excel and draft participant communication statements in Word;
- Create and maintain calculation spreadsheet and documentation;
- Track manual calculation scenarios and test cases, and work with clients to validate them.
Quality control:
- Automate pension calculations in Excel and Aon Hewitt proprietary platform for tens of thousands of participants;
- Ensure accuracy of client requirement documents and data;
- Identify testing breakpoints and ensure robustness and accuracy of test plans;
- Execute thousands of test cases and analyze their results via individual and batch processes;
- Manage multiple rounds of testing, identify resulting system defects, and monitor the resolution of defects.
Technical skills:
- Write and execute SQL codes to aggregate and analyze participants data;
- Write EXCEL formulas and VBA programs to enhance pension calculations and quality testing tools.
Education and research:
- Prepare and present lecture material for a wide array of mathematics courses, ranging from introductory (calculus) to advanced (analysis);
- Set and evaluate class performance benchmarks in terms of homework assignments, projects, and exams;
- Conduct original independent research and publish papers in peer-reviewed journals;
- Present research results in national and international conferences.
Employment History
- Aon Hewitt, Lincolnshire, IL, October 2007 to present - Benefits Operations Administrator
- DePaul University, Chicago, IL, September 2006 to June 2007 - Visiting Assistant Professor
- Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, January 2005 to August 2006 - Visiting Instructor
Education
- University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Ph.D. in Mathematics, May 2005.
- University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
B.A. in Mathematics (with Honors), with minors in Computer Science and Violin Performance, April 1998.
Other Academic Experiences
Service
University of Michigan, Summer 2004.
Advised incoming freshmen for selection of mathematics courses.
- Member of Dissertation Committee
DePaul University, Spring 2007.
Served as a member of a dissertation committee at Western Michigan University.
DePaul University, Spring 2007.
Served as a referee for an article appearing in Comput. Methods Funct. Theory.
Publications
- Zero sets and interpolating sets in Fock spaces, Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), no. 1, 259-263.
- Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces, J. Math. Anal. Appl., 318 (2006), no. 2, 397-409.
- On Taylor coefficients and multipliers in Fock spaces, to appear in Contemp. Math.
Invited Talks
| "Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces", Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne Colloquium, Fort Wayne, IN
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| 25 May, 2006
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| "Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces", AMS Spring Eastern Section Meeting, Durham, NH
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| 22 April, 2006
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| "Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces", University of Michigan Complex Analysis Seminar, Ann Arbor, MI
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| 28 March, 2006
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| "Taylor coefficients of functions in Fock spaces", South Eastern Analysis Meeting XXII, Gainesville, FL
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| 5 March, 2006
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| "Analytic functions with lacunary Taylor series", Recent advances in operator-related function theory, El Escorial, Spain
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| 7 October, 2005
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Additional Skills and Interests
Fluent in English, Mandarin and Taiwanese. Reading knowledge in German.
Various locations, 1995--present.
Played violin in various professional orchestras, including the Gainesville Symphony, FL; Valdosta Symphony, GA; Ann Arbor Symphony, MI; Flint Symphony, MI; Lansing Symphony, MI; Southwest Florida Symphony, FL; and Rockford Symphony, IL.
Word, Excel, Access, VBA, SQL, Pascal, C, HTML, and Flash Actionscript. Expert in Latex typesetting.