Gemineye Announces First Winner of Their Client Development Award

Annie Stuart

Gemineye is delighted to announce the winner of their first ever Client Developer Award. This award represents the very best in data analytics application and innovative solutions to financial services’ pain points. The award was given to P1FCU, led by Annie Stuart (pictured), Senior Business Intelligence Analyst at the $2.2B, Lewiston, Idaho-based credit union. P1FCU has grown tremendously over the past decade and is now a financial leader in the Western Idaho region.

The Gemineye Client Developer Award is based on several criteria, including innovation and creativity, technical excellence, impact on operations, and collaboration.

"The Gemineye Developer Award was created because we are constantly impressed with the way our clients have adopted the Gemineye Lakehouse and gone on to build more tools and dashboards unique to their team,” said Maggie Chopp, Director of Business Development at Gemineye and creator of the Client Developer Award. “We wanted to find a way to recognize and reward the effort of these analysts, engineers, and architects, and the tangible impact they have on their credit union. We are proud to support the foundational technology - but even prouder to be an ongoing partner to these development teams."

P1FCU’s project submission featured a report that visualized how much time tellers at each branch were spending on operational activities. Clint Johnson, VP of Data and Analytics, Stuart, and the rest of the data team collaborated cross-departmentally to answer the age-old question that plagues financial institutions: “What’s actually happening at our credit union branches?” And with 26 branches – another one on the way early next year, understanding what operational needs were required of each branch was critical to the credit union’s success as they continued to grow.

Stuart explained, “We really wanted to answer the question: How many people do we need in each branch? What are they doing with their time? What level of staff do we need?” The project revealed key insights about how personal opinion shapes what it means to be busy at the branch level. And when it comes to analyzing nuanced data like new branch performance, the Gemineye Data Lakehouse has the flexible structure to support these initiatives.

VP of Data Analytics Johnson explained, “Having the right platform that's flexible and capable of holding and reporting all your data is very convenient. The Gemineye Data Lakehouse is built on Microsoft Azure and Databricks, which allows us customization - We add to it constantly. It's far faster than having a whole system in house on premise.”

A big congratulations to P1FCU and the data team for their innovative and collaborative efforts in branch operations. For more information on P1FCU, visit their website or find them on social media.

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