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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

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 of.

Bachelor’S Degree, Spanish And International Studies

Study Abroad Summer 2011, Intensive Spanish Courses