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Company contracts with major tech companies to provide Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback to train AI models.

• Created own website, specializing in fiction but serving as an umbrella for variety of occasional engagements including manuscripts, short stories, academics and travel articles.
• Explained corrections for writers with limited English proficiency.
• Researched scientific or historical details to be sure of accuracy or plausibility.
• Created style sheets to ensure consistency of names, character facts and maps.
• Caught every error in client manuscript, leaving publisher (Tor) with no changes to make except in new sections.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Largest U.S. newspaper publisher, owner of USA TODAY and Des Moines Register.Following a shakeup in nightly workflow, moved to newly-created position ensuring online-first articles met print requirements; later shakeup.
• Documented new process, with separate guide of low-skill steps for other teams to take on in crunch time.
• Trained new page editors as role grew in numbers and expanded in scope.
• Strengthened communication between on- and off-site staff when position became partly and then fully remote.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Joined company’s newest “design studio,” in which teams of 4-6 remote designers took on slates of 4-12 newspapers instead of working on-site and 1:1.
• Planned layouts and presentations in coordination with on-site staff.
• Complied with dozens of shifting house styles while encouraging papers to reduce variation.
• Trained new hires in CUE Print CMS.
• Cross-trained to assist wire desk with selecting and editing Associated Press stories.

• Dominant company in information technology, advertising, and artificial intelligence.Approached by contractor with vague description of irregular part-time duties for unnamed client; recognized company’s address and.
• Provided natural-language processing and word-sense disambiguation training sets for AI supervised learning.
• Met deadlines and quality control benchmarks to be in minority of employees retained for entire length of project.

Clarksville, Tennessee Area

• Newspaper for Clarksville, Tennessee and attached Fort Campbell, Kentucky Army base.Stepped into recently vacated copy editor/designer position at daily newspaper with circulation around 25,000.
• Maintained consistent look for section despite absence of house style guide.
• Made deadline on night Michael Jackson died despite rapid changes in available information
• Read stories submitted by reporters and readers to edit for clarity, accuracy, DEI and tone

Ames, Iowa

• Fully student-operated newspaper at Iowa State University.Promoted for spring semester before internship and graduation.
• Supervised copy and design desks in nightly production.
• Mentored new editors in specific areas of need.
• Compiled lists of common usage and style errors to reduce number of mistakes and improve consistency in style.
• Signed off on pages before they went to editor in chief.

Ames, Iowa

• Worked nightly shifts editing campus and local news along with national, sports, entertainment, and opinion sections. Completed various editorial functions including fact-checking, confirming details such as dates or.
• Prevented printing of letter to editor plagiarized from another publication.
• Caught grievous misunderstanding of issue that registered entire opinion column moot.

Ames, Iowa

• Office advertising possibilities and achievements to prospective students and to alumni.A summer job that kept going.
• Interviewed and profiled exceptional students and professors
• Wrote press releases for internal or media distribution and placement on university website
• Proofread information for alumni newsletters

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Proofread website and made changes, including updating calendar with events and press releases
• Composed organization e-mail newsletters for mailing list
• Surveyed past supporters by phone with regards to their voting plans and knowledge of candidates