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Amherst, New Hampshire, United States

• Consultant - Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), Georgetown University
• Designing annotation guidelines in consultation with PIs
• Performing quality assurance of outsourced annotation
• Calculating quality control metrics, including inter-annotator agreementTeam Lead - Center for Analytics, University of New Haven / IARPA
• Advising data collection workflow and providing annotation guidance
• Performing final quality assurance for English and Arabic deliverables

Concord, New Hampshire

Manchester, New Hampshire

Teaching English grammar, reading and writing courses for international students.

Lawrence, Massachusetts

Taught English as a Second Language and Career Readiness to recent immigrants interested in improving their language skills to prepare for college and/or a career.

New Hampshire

Interpreted for Spanish-speaking clients and English-speaking care providers in hospitals and private homes in New Hampshire.

Boston, MA

• Contract position with the Temporal History of Your Medical Events (THYME) project as part of an NIH funded grant. See thyme.healthnlp.org for additional details.
• Adjudicated annotation of clinical notes
• Participated in planning meetings
• Contributed to annotation guidelines

Cambridge, MA

• Increased revenue by working with diverse customers such as Disney and Royal Bank of Scotland to meet specific client needs and goals
• Improved part-of-speech tagging and dictionaries for English, Spanish and Portuguese systems
• Compiled corpora by language and industry to evaluate accuracy of products
• Built industry-specific sentiment analysis taxonomies in English, Spanish, German and Finnish
• Wrote Python scripts to generate inflection patterns of words in Finnish and Arabic
• Trained colleagues in using Python for linguistic purposes

Nashua, NH

• Expanded machine translation rules for English to Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian
• Built rule-based machine translation system for English to Finnish
• Reduced translation costs by working with translators to prioritize improvements
• Wrote Python scripts to check accuracy of dictionary encoding and generate inflections
• Maintained and improved rules for disambiguation of English homographs

• Annotation Group Manager, 2004-2007
• Managed NLP projects in English, Arabic, Chinese, Urdu, Korean and Thai
• Managed up to 20 linguists including recruitment, training and performance evaluations
• Supported research in natural language processing, including machine translation, information extraction and question answering applications
• Designed annotation guidelines to meet project needs
• Hired, trained and evaluated annotatorsAnnotator: 2001-2004

Taught three sections of undergraduate linguistics per semester.

Taught introductory undergraduate linguistics.

ESL Instructor. Taught English as a second language to adult learners, serving the immigrant population of Greater Nashua. 2001-2003.Spanish Instructor. Taught evening classes to adults learning Spanish. Spring, 2000.

Localization Lead. Managed localization projects, evaluated performance of QAengineers, served as liaison with sales, marketing, engineering, and technical support,negotiated with outside vendors. 2000-2001.Senior QA Localization Engineer. Designed and implemented linguistic andfunctional tests, trained team members, created multilingual glossaries..

Managed content development of language software for Spanish, Italian,Arabic, Turkish, Hebrew and Romanian products.

Fall 1993- Spring 1994 - Instructor. ESL, intermediate and advanced Spanish classes. Summer 1994. Teacher Trainer. Course for Brazilian teachers sponsored by USIS. Fall 1995 - Spring 1997 - Instructor: Designed and taught English language programs for university-bound students and corporate executives.

Hired and trained teachers, taught ESL courses

Ph.D., Applied Linguistics

Activities and Societies: CL@BU (Computational Linguistics at BU), BUCLD (BU Conference on Language Development)Dissertation titled.

Cmp (Certified Music Practitioner), Voice, Keyboard And Harp

The Music for Healing & Transition Program (MHTP) trains and certifies musicians to provide live prescriptive music at the bedside for the.

Mat, Tesol

Ma, Spanish

Ba, Spanish, Music Minor