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South Africa

Harare, Zimbabwe

- Successfully formed and managed a remote team of 6 annotators to create novel NER and POS datasets. We added an annotated dataset of 8000+ Shona sentences for NER and 1500+ for POS to the MasakhaNER 2.0 dataset which covers 20 African languages.- Trained Neural Machine Translation models based on the jw300 corpus using JoeyNMT for the Shona language and participated in the human evaluation of the trained models' accuracy. - Coordinated the translation of Shona parallel corpora of 1500… Show more - Successfully formed and managed a remote team of 6 annotators to create novel NER and POS datasets. We added an annotated dataset of 8000+ Shona sentences for NER and 1500+ for POS to the MasakhaNER 2.0 dataset which covers 20 African languages.- Trained Neural Machine Translation models based on the jw300 corpus using JoeyNMT for the Shona language and participated in the human evaluation of the trained models' accuracy. - Coordinated the translation of Shona parallel corpora of 1500 sentences for machine translation in the news domain. Show less

Harare, Zimbabwe

- Assisting and conducting lectures in the Department of Computer Science.- Preparing and setting end of semester exams.- Marking and grading exams and assignments.- End of semester final exam invigilation.- Member of the Research and Industrial Liaison Committee.

Denver, Colorado

- Document classification, Topic Modelling and Clustering using Apache Spark (Mllib)- Natural Language Processing (Text preprocessing, Named Entity Extraction, Part of Speech Tagging) using OpenNLP- Implementing full-text search using Apache Solr- Content Enhancement for Natural Language Processing using Apache Stanbol- Data annotation for Statistical Entity Extraction and training - Web development using Play Framework

Harare,Zimbabwe

● System Design, Testing and Implementation.● Requirements analysis gathering● Android application development● Planning and coordinating feature and module implementation time● Managing and Implementing software version control using GitHub● Managing and maintaining servers on Google Cloud Platform using Google App Engine

Harare, Zimbabwe

● Developing Android applications ● Designing NoSQL database schema based on Parse Server ● Requirements analysis gathering

10 Albany Road,Alexandra Park,Harare,Zimbabwe

● Troubleshooting system and network problems, diagnosing, solving hardware or software faults and planning or undertaking scheduled maintenance upgrades● Providing support to clients, including procedural documentation and relevant reports● Collecting, compiling and analyzing data from various databases to perform statistical analysis● Reviewing and documenting user requests and requirements● Providing training to parking Clients and new ZemQos staff on the parking system and… Show more ● Troubleshooting system and network problems, diagnosing, solving hardware or software faults and planning or undertaking scheduled maintenance upgrades● Providing support to clients, including procedural documentation and relevant reports● Collecting, compiling and analyzing data from various databases to perform statistical analysis● Reviewing and documenting user requests and requirements● Providing training to parking Clients and new ZemQos staff on the parking system and infrastructure● Assisting ZemQos staff and Clients in the use of standard business, administrative software, including office applications, database management and provide instruction or written documentation.● Designing Standard Operating Procedures for the Systems Support and Operations Department● Testing, evaluating new Automated Parking Applications● Preparation various documents including User Manuals, Project Proposals, Test Reports and Requirements Analysis Documents Show less

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science

Conducted research on mobile plant leaf disease classication in an offline setting in real field conditions. The research process included.

Full Stack Web Development Certification, Computer Software Engineering

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: Google Developer's Group