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Hi, I am Steven

Steven Lasch

Business Intelligence Developer at Erie Federal Credit Union

As a Business Intelligence Developer at Erie FCU, I focus on turning complex data into clear, actionable insights for leadership and staff. I build and maintain interactive dashboards that support marketing, branch operations, and executive decision-making. I manage the credit union’s centralized reporting system, streamlining requests across departments and ensuring data is shared responsibly. My role also involves overseeing ETL processes, so the data powering our tools is accurate, timely, and reliable.

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Work Experience

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Erie Federal Credit Union

May 2024 - Present

Erie, Pennsylvania

Erie FCU is an $820M asset federal credit union dedicated to serving its members from the Erie area, to across the entire United States, since 1936.

Business Intelligence Developer

May 2024 - Present

Responsibilities:
  • Centralized management and executive-level MCIF reporting into an interactive dashboard environment.
  • Developed and automated cross-departmental report request form, which handles all data requests. Enabled easier ticket tracking and alleviates communication pain points.
  • Developed an internal informational site about our analytics department using SharePoint Pages, further promoting a culture of data sharing.
  • Created automated monthly dashboards for marketing and branch operations in PowerBI and proprietary software environments.

Northwest PA Beehive Network

May 2023 - May 2024

Erie, Pennsylvania

Student-led initiative to conduct key research and collect data necessary to help entrepreneurs and small businesses achieve an understanding of their market, industry and competitive landscape.

Data Analyst

May 2023 - May 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Created data visualizations and dashboards for a variety of small business clients.
  • Conducted SEO analysis for small business websites to pinpoint areas for improvement.
  • Assisted clients in implementing SEO recommendations, reducing latency by up to 300% and boosting results page rankings.
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Mercyhurst University CIRAT

August 2023 - May 2024

Erie, Pennsylvania

The Mercyhurst University Center for Intelligence Research, Analysis, and Training (CIRAT) offers students hands-on experience and resources to develop marketable skills in the dynamic fields of intelligence, data science, and cybersecurity.

Project Manager

December 2023 - May 2024

Responsibilities:
  • Managed a group of 3 undergraduate data science majors.
  • Assigned weekly tasks, and oversaw agile development progress.
  • Designed and deployed a cost-effective website chatbot from a limited knowledge-base.
Researcher

August 2023 - December 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Conducted research on the impact of AI to higher education.
  • Provided a stakeholder report of findings for our university’s president and board members.

Empower AI

April 2022 - April 2023

Remote

Federal contracting company based in Reston, Virginia. Company is focused on machine learning application development and deployment.

Data Scientist - Contract Researcher

April 2022 - April 2023

Responsibilities:
  • Assisted implementation of a legacy-to-modern code translation model using a pretrained transformer architecture.
  • Created training data by cleaning and standardizing code files from over 100 open-source GitHub repositories.
  • Fed training data into a machine learning pipeline.
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Education

MS in Computer Science
Coursework:
Well rounded coursework involving machine learning (ML) theory, applied ML in the financial sector and healthcare, knowledge-based AI, cognitive science, and analytics.
B.Sc. in Data Science
CGPA: 4 out of 4
Taken Courses:
Course NameTotal CreditObtained Credit
Data Structures and Algorithm44
Machine Learning44
Relational Database Management44
Extracurricular Activities:
  • Mathematics and Religious Studies dual minor.
  • Graduated summa cum laude
  • Data Science club president

Projects

HVAC Website Development
Developer and Administrator June 2023 - Present

For this project, I developed a website for David Lasch Heating & A/C, a small HV/AC business from Conneautville, PA. I worked with them to create a website that implements Google Analytics to track website impressions, page visits, and other data regularly.

My Website
Developer June 2023 - Present

I created and self-host my own website to showcase my career progress, research, and blog posts.

Publications

Our work focuses on translating American Sign Language (ASL) glosses to English sentences. We use five multitask, transfer learning models to perform these translations.

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