Craig Katzman

About Craig Katzman

Skills can be learned, but experience has to be earned. When opportunities to \"help out\" present themselves, employ your experience, act decisively, and get involved. It serves a common goal of driving organizational success, and simultaneously broadens your exposure. Specializing in- Data Analytics- Insight Development- Business Process Analysis & Improvement- Application Design and Product Management- Project Management- Team DevelopmentFunctional skills:• Effective communications, vertically and horizontally, with ability to bridge the divide between business and IT.• Resolving ambiguity into clarity.• SQL Server, MySQL and AS/400 SEQUEL• Workflow and process support application development in MS Access• Experienced with IBM/Cognos, MicroStrategy, and DOMO Business Intelligence (BI) platforms.• Direct query access to Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) and multiple production RDBMS instances.• Data Mining and Insight Development

Experience

1. Senior Director, Corporate Analytics

   National MI

   Jul 2012 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Developed high-capability analytics team through stretch-opportunities and mentoring. Providing workflow and decision/action support across the organization and at all levels (individual departments through C-Suite). Focus on efficiency and repeatability, and insightful presentation of results. Leverage industry and organizational knowledge to relate seemingly disconnected processes and results. Corporate Analytics provides primary operational support for reinsurance treaty management and analytics support for Finance. Additional analytic and reporting support provided to Insurance Operations, Risk Management, and Legal. • Developed Reinsurance application and earmarking process for associating individual mortgage insurance policies to assigned reinsurance treaties• Created core reporting database and presentation templates in support of Lender Risk Review• Designed and led development of Synthetic Peer performance benchmarking model• Led development of multiple off-system POC processes to support the value of subsequent IT-development efforts, including:> Non-Delegated Workflow Optimization > Secure, two-way data exchange process with 3rd party service providers in support of Post-Close Review process• Engage with business units to evaluate opportunities for process optimization, including identification of downstream dependencies and potential for multistep improvement• Functional liaison between semi-autonomous business units, helping each to comprehend the up- and down-stream impacts of various actions• Co-led deployment of DOMO (SaaS cloud BI) into the organization, developing data visualizations to provide timely information around KPIs, trends, anomalies, and exceptions

Education

• California State University-Sacramento

  CA DOJ Certified Crime and Intelligence Analyst*, Criminal Justice/Law Enforcement Administration

  2010 — 2011

• San Diego State University

  BA, Public Administration

  2005

Skills

• Database Design
• Business Analytics
• Access
• Domo
• Creative Problem Solving
• Mortgage Underwriting
• Business Intelligence
• Sql
• Mortgage Lending
• Data Analysis
• Highly Adaptable
• Microsoft Office
• Ad Hoc Reporting
• Staff Development
• Mysql
• Business Process Improvement
• Risk Analytics
• Setting Priorities
• Credit
• Analysis
• Management
• Common Sense
• Data Mining
• Mortgage Banking
• Balanced Scorecard
• Leadership
• Loan Origination
• Workflow Diagrams
• Customer Insight
• Major Domo
• Analytical Skills
• Risk Management