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Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

• Research, evaluate, and implement quality improvements to automated candidate/job matching system, CV and Vacancy parsing systems. • R&D work on knowledge taxonomy services, relation mining, LLM prompt engineering, Python data pipelines • Conduct prompt engineering and prompt improvement and evaluate output of prompts for LLM based solutions and featues• Heavy focus on data quality, natural language processing (NLP), information extraction, and information retrieval• Software development in Python, FastAPI services, Perl, and sometimes Java• Use data science techniques in Python + Jupyter notebooks for research and evaluation• Work with development team using git, doing code reviews, reading and writing tests• Rotational involvement in support, responding to tickets and implementing fixes/improvements

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Perform qualitative and quantitative analysis of cv/job matching relevance• Implement improvements to evaluation pipeline of match recommendation system• Perform deep dive qualitative error analysis on evaluation data to quantify and target areas for improvement

Amsterdam Area, Netherlands

• Consulted the existing grammatical descriptions of different languages• Adjusted questionnaires to the grammatical profile of a language under study• Analyzed questionnaires filled in by the speakers according to the parameters of the database• Entered the resulting data into the database using the existing editing interface• Located speakers of relevant languages • Conducted interviews with the speakers

Philadelphia, Pa

• Managed administration of communications portion of USAID projects• Deployed communications specialists to the field, obtaining visas, flights, hotels, and dealing with all administrative matters• Trained and mentored new team members in all facets of administration of these projects• Completed and processed monthly invoices, monthly payroll for local project employees, and financial projections for prime contractor• Edited and revised project communications products and reports

Master'S Degree, Language Technology

Master's in Language Technology - Computational Linguistics and its applications Completed coursework in 2018 and MA thesis while working.

Master’S Degree, Linguistics

Courses in linguistics with a focus on Spanish language, sociolinguistics, language change, and variation. MA Thesis, University.

Bachelor’S Degree, Spanish And International Studies

Study Abroad Summer 2011, Intensive Spanish Courses