American Family Insurance Group

Mr. Eric T. Mathis is a Product Engineer with The LifeLine Group where he participates in a team that is continuing the development of the Lifeline model in Visual C++. Lifeline is a software tool used to determine aggregate and cumulative exposures from pesticide and non-pesticide use. It is based on a form of Monte Carlo analysis called Microexposure Event Analysis. Mr. Mathis has a Master of Science degree from the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa, Alabama in Geography in which his concentration was on Geographic Information Systems. He got his B Sc from Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama. While working at AMEC Earth and Environmental, Portland, Maine he developed the PhRMA Risk Model using Visual C++. It allows representatives of the PhRMA companies to input their chemical data, and the model then will track the chemical as it flows along a watershed. It will measure exposure along multiple pathways and produce usable output of watershed segment concentrations, drinking water source concentrations, and allowable doses (PNEC) for multiple receptors.. He also developed a two-dimensional microexposure event model for General Electric and participated in a team that refined the Microexposure Event Model (MEE) for performing probabilistic risk assessments from the ingestion of fish from contaminated water bodies. The model concurrently quantifies uncertainty and variability in the risk estimates. The current model version was developed using the Visual C++ platform, and uses MS-Access files to store input and output data. This MEE has also been modified for the Penobscot River in central Maine and Fox River in Wisconsin. Mr. Mathis has experience as a Project Manager through his work at Allenbrook, in Portland, Maine where he is the team leader for a development group responsible for writing custom programs for American Family Insurance Company, a 3 billion-dollar industry leader. He manages work and development cycle for 4 developers and 2 quality assurance testers to ensure quality and timely releases to the client. Mr. Mathis has extensive experience in the use of the Visual C++ development language for creation and modification of business objects used for insurance processing and has performed architecture and design for an enterprise-wide Oracle relational database base supporting 15,000+ users in multiple remote offices. He has created custom geographic information system applications and data sets for various clients including an ESRI ARC/INFO geographic information system that involved studying changes in land use over a 30-year period and its effect on the bird population.