Kari Parthasarathy Email & Phone Number

• Contract Proofreader/Copyeditor (hosted by Juno Search Partners)
• Review internal and client-facing advertising and promotional materials using Workfront and Microsoft Office
• Edit for grammar/spelling/punctuation/syntax, consistency, and compliance with brand style guidelines
• Collaborate with project management, marketing, and design teams
• Understand clients’ products, audiences and business objectives to ensure copy is accurate and effective

• Associate Analyst, AI Content Engineering (for Google, through GlobalLogic, hosted by SDLC)
• Collaborate on project meetings/forums to deliver timely, high-quality project data
• Adapt to swift changes to project policies
• Train AI to write correctly and insightfully using style guidelines
• Design and implement NLP and ML models to improve the accuracy and effectiveness of a chatbot
• Follow directives from engineering teams to define and refine chatbot functionality and user experience

• Hosted by ansrsource
• For a Lean Six Sigma Green Belt certification exam, I wrote 100 multiple-choice and multi-select questions, each with 4-6 answer options, and text explaining why each answer for each question was right or wrong and for.

• Hosted by LearningMate
• For an 8-week Intro to Genetics course for an online accredited university, I developed course and learning objectives, outlined the syllabus, wrote online coursework (including generating figures with legends.

• Leading editing teams
• Led teams of 9-13 editors with tenures ranging from 4 months to 10 years
• Supported editors on my team in gaining promotions and moving into other roles
• Led and managed through times of fast-paced change
• Managed through a variety of personnel needs: from high performers needing support mostly in stakeholder management and career growth to struggling editors needing to improve editing performance and more effectively.
• The Editing Evaluation Committee supports newly hired and established editors through their training, and the QA team provides detailed assessments of editing quality for a variety of purposes, including training.

• Editing scientific manuscripts for non-native English speakers
• Total of 4083 manuscripts revised and 3475 researchers supported
• Multi-time recipient of Culture Champion award (peer nominated)
• Maintained a fast pace and high quality
• Worked with stakeholders to develop, test, and implement new products, processes, and toolsChair and founding member of the Editing Evaluation Committee
• Committee purpose is to support new-hire and established editor training

Editing scientific manuscripts for non-native English speakers

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Director of Exam Prep and Subject Tutoring Programs
• Designed and implemented successful individualized programs for more than 60 students preparing for the ACT, SAT, and PSAT, with average score increases of 3-5 (ACT), 300-500 (SAT), and 30-50 (PSAT) points
• Managed and trained a team of part-time tutors, tutored students 1-on-1 for 3-hour sessions, and worked with full-time staff to coordinate with other HLC programs
• Met with parents on a regular basis to discuss student progress
• Modified the existing Exam Prep program for improvements

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Teaching Assistant: Plant Biotechnology Principles and Practice (Jean-Michel Ané) and General Genetics (Barry Ganetzky and Ching Kung)
• Weekly lab and discussion sessions, with office hours, proctoring, and gradingResearch Assistant: Lab of Jean-Michel Ané
• Thesis: Role of the mevalonate pathway, specifically the enzyme HMGR, in early symbiotic signaling in the model legume Medicago truncatula

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Biology And Spanish (Double Major)

Master Of Science - Ms, Genetics