Phineas Fritsch

Resume

Financial actuarial mathematics at UCLA, graduating June 2027. Sitting Exam FM in fall 2026; no exams passed yet. Reach me at contact@phineasfritsch.com.

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Education

UCLA · 2023–2027
Degree
B.S. Financial Actuarial Mathematics. Expected June 2027.
Actuarial
MATH 177 (Theory of Interest and Applications) and 174E (Mathematics of Finance), completed. 178A (Foundations of Actuarial Mathematics) and 179 (Advanced Topic in Financial Mathematics), enrolled for fall 2026. Sitting Exam FM in fall 2026.
Quantitative
Linear algebra, real analysis, probability (170E / 170S), MATH 61, multivariable calculus.
Business
Accounting (MGMT 1A / 1B), MGMT 105, MGMT 109, ECON 1, ECON 11.

Experience

  • UCLA Library — Student Assistant II

    Biomedical Library · Mar 2026 – present

    Hired as a Student Assistant I and promoted. Desk and stacks work: circulation, interlibrary-loan pull lists, shelf reading, headcounts, opening and closing.

    Built three tools for the unit on my own initiative, none of them assigned: the daily staff schedule on a phone screen, a call-number-to-shelf lookup after the library retired LibMaps, and a rebuilt headcount page. The schedule used to arrive as a spreadsheet every morning. People at my desk open mine now instead of the file.

  • MKTaxSolutions — IT Intern

    San Leandro, CA · Aug–Sep 2024

    Consolidated over 400 client profiles across three separate services. Integrated CCH software with the office scanning systems and handled general IT support and client calls.

  • Vera A. Fritsch DMD — Operations Assistant

    San Leandro, CA · Jun–Oct 2023

    My family's dental practice. Front-office clinic operations, patient data entry and financial record accuracy, on Dentrix.

Leadership

  • UCLA Sailing Team — Treasurer, then Team Captain

    Treasurer 2024–25 · Captain 2025–26

    Ran the executive board and weekly meetings, coordinated travel and housing for biweekly regattas against a budget that did not stretch, and set rosters balancing competitiveness against who could spend a weekend in a van together.

  • Theta Chi, Beta Alpha Chapter — House Manager, then Network Manager

    House Manager 2025–26 · Network Manager since 2026

    Managed a $10,000 annual operating budget and daily property operations with alumni. Directed summer renovations — plumbing, structural repairs, a new game room — and used them in recruitment, contributing to the second-largest pledge class in chapter history.

Case competition

13th Annual Actuarial Case Competition (BAS), Winter 2025. Evaluated three commercial property insurance structures for a simulated Fortune 500 real estate client, analyzing how varying retentions, aggregate limits and co-insurance moved tail risk. Computed TCOR and Risk-Adjusted TCOR to reconcile the CFO's premium constraint with actual exposure, and ran 10,000-iteration Monte Carlo simulations of annual aggregate losses against Lognormal, Gamma and Pareto fits to historical data.

Skills

Quantitative
Monte Carlo simulation, loss distribution fitting, Excel modeling.
Engineering
Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Swift. Docker, Kamal, Cloudflare Workers and Pages, GitHub Actions. I deploy and operate what I build — see the work section.
Infrastructure
Linux server administration, Proxmox, networking, self-hosted services.
Languages
English (native), German (B2/C1, accredited).