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Kirkland, Wa, Us

Kirkland, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Seattle, Wa, Us

Team Lead of the International team, working cross culturally with international stakeholders to integrate the new international properties with the stateside property (www.realself.com).* Collaborated with a developer on a separate tech stack for a foreign language website.* Performed international research to make recommendations and deployment plans for merging technologies across our web properties, such as CDNs, Wordpress hosts, and industry-specific features.* Coordinated deployments with international Sales and Marketing teams.Built features targeted at international markets to grow revenue, such as the Verified for International program and Google Ad Exchange ads, resulting in ~$12k in MRR. * Cut and prioritized technical SEO tickets from an audit on the new website, to improve indexability and site structure.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full-stack development with PHP, AngularJS, SQL, Ruby, HTML/CSS* Developed organization-wide standards for creating pull requests, and coached engineers to improve code reviews.* Ambassador for the new CSS build platform, mentoring other engineers and implementing new processes and best practices to follow.* Designed, led, and implemented projects spanning multiple sprints, tech stacks, and other developers. Interfaced directly with stakeholders to deliver new sales products and site features. Independently designed and built backend REST APIs and Single Page Apps.* Directly managed and mentored various interns in the internship program. Conducted objective setting and performance management conversations, and performance reviews.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Full-stack development laced with NLP* Developed and deployed applications in PHP, AngularJS, MySQL, RabbitMQ, Ruby, Javascript.* Major contributor to the radical site-wide rebranding and reskinning.* Performed a six-month research project of various keyword extraction softwares, including IBM Watson Knowledge Studio and open-source NLP tools, on text content of RealSelf reviews.

Contributed to ongoing research projects at the Multilingual Computing section of the Computational and Information Sciences Directorate. Individual contributions include: writing a high-performing POS tagger using machine learning methods, and scaling it to handle large data sets or large feature sets using Apache Spark software to parallelize the operations on multiple machines; editing and extending a dependency tree editor program for illustrating and annotating dependencies of a text, using MXGraph; utilizing various new supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms/software to perform NLP tasks and compare performance such as Corbit for Chinese Treebank parsing and Morphochains for automatic morphological segmentation.

Assisting in various projects related to machine translation, corpus annotation, information retrieval and extraction, development of language tools. Namely working with NewsReader project, a multinational project to build structured event indexes from millions of daily news articles in order to assist professionals in any sector to make well-informed decisions. Duties: comprehend, evaluate, and annotate coreferents and order of events based on TimeLine guidelines; implement annotations into NewsReader project TimeLine database; review and defend annotation disputes,

Delivering courses of advanced English and exam preparation for the Cambridge Advanced English exam to adult students. Lesson preparation, exam and essay correction, progress updating of each student.

Taught unique, company-developed phonics, grammar, and comprehension courses crafted for effectiveness. Responsible for continuous dialogue with clients regarding students’ progress. Courses taught in English, Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese, or multilingual, as preferred by the client. Students aged 3 to 10.

Promoted the club and the club’s mission to the greater university community to increase membership. Engaged in business negotiations with diverse businesses to recruit sponsorships to fund various club activities and spread awareness of the club.Mediated between the group and the federal government, IRS to negotiate monetary settlements. Responded to inquiries/complaints from members and liaised to management officers.

Master Of Science (M.S.), Language And Communication Technologies

Master Of Science (M.S.), Language And Communication Technologies

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Linguistics

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Communication And Media Studies, French