Erik Schmidt

Professional Summary

I am a data scientist with over 5 years experience as an analyst across various industries, including healthcare, telecoms, finance, and tourism. Outside of my day job, I enjoy pursuing various analytical projects, ranging from real estate development to using AI to categorize and organize unorganized collections of ephemera. I currently work in quality operations at the National Board of Medical Examiners.

Personal Summary

I live in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania with my fiancée, dog, and two cats. I enjoy cooking new recipes, strategy board games, and a good book. Some areas I've been enjoying reading about recently are urban planning, economics, and the history of technology.

Erik Schmidt smiling, resting his chin on his hand
Historic map of Philadelphia

Selected Projects

01Ephemera Organizer

In the 1920s, my Great-Grandfather wrote letters to communicate with his relatives in Denmark. I built a tool which used AI to transcribe, translate, organize, and summarize these letters into a searchable collection, so that me and my family could understand who my ancestors were, what they felt, and what their lives were like.

02MMS Equity

MMS Equity was a real estate investment firm I partnered in from 2024-2026. We located and purchased properties, performed renovations, and rented them following a BRRR model. I sold my share to the other partners in 2026.

03Miletus Analytics

Miletus Analytics was a GIS visualization tool I developed to identify and visualize zoning across different municipalities in 2023-2024.

Selected Experiences

Quality Operations

National Board of Medical Examiners

The National Board of Medical Examiners (NBME) administers all three steps of the USMLE, the United States Medical Licensure Examination. On the quality operations team, I use a variety of analytical tools to ensure the examiniations run according to ISO 9001 standards. Statistical and data tools I use in my work include Python, R, and Qlik. Project management and organzing stakeholders to react to problems are also important parts of my role at NBME.

Data Analytics & Operations

Tourism Economics

At Tourism Economics, I worked with clients to build high performance dashboards that delivered useful economic intelligence to Destination Marketing Organizations (DMOs). In addition to client-facing dashboards, during my tenure, I also created internal business intelligence projects, such as pipeline tracking dashboards, and customer segmentation analyses using scikit learn.

Structured Financial Analyst

EmphaSys Technologies, Inc

EmphaSys Technologies, Inc. was a specialized financial consulting firm focusing on mortgage backed securities and other structured financial products. I built and maintained in-house structured financial models, and provided consultative services about those models.

Erik presenting tourism attendance data at the Museum of the American Revolution