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Zeist, Ut, Nl

Copenhagen, Capital Region, Denmark

As a Data Consultant with expertise in governance, I maintain strong client relationships, offering tailored guidance on data governance strategies and data organisation. I contribute to our service delivery, ensuring smooth implementation of solutions and always adapting to ever evolving customer needs through agile methodologies. I have been enjoying the daily data and user analysis to drive informed decision-making and process improvement, while providing guidance on best practices ensuring compliance. I'm a tech agnostic consultant, a classic Jackie of all trades, who is also somehow an expert of all trades.I dabble in DEI initiatives and event coordinating as a fun little plus, presenting here, speaking there, hosting and organising company events for our country offices. I always enjoy putting effort into team spirit and community building within the workplace.

Utrecht, Netherlands

As an AI specialist, my focus was mainly on Machine Learning and Computer Vision. I worked in a wonderful project focused on developing a product for anonymizing Dutch governmental documents to keep up with GDPR regulations. Utilizing advanced machine learning and computer vision techniques, I contributed to efforts to design and implement robust anonymization algorithms. Simultaneously, I remained dedicated to staying at the forefront of the rapidly evolving industry by conducting continuous research and learning.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

As a Speech Recognition Engineer, I specialised in building, updating, and evaluating Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) models across multiple languages. My expertise extended beyond technical aspects, I held a unique position as the sole Linguist and language expert in a language technology company, where I provided invaluable insights and guidance to all our teams.I led initiatives to improve and automate technical and ASR processes through dedicated research and development efforts. Leveraging technologies such as Kaldi, Python, SRILM, and Git, I effectively implemented innovative solutions to enhance performance and efficiency.

Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Upon completion of my internship, I transitioned to a full-time position within the company, where I continue to contribute to the team's success and further develop my skills in speech recognition engineering. All tasks of my internships were the same of my full time position, as described above.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Pre-processing text data, corpus processing and scripting tools for FIN-CLARIN, as well as testing, annotating and writing reports.Developed tools and methods for converting large amounts of text data for further processing, all the while optimising and improving existing methods.

Finland

An extended seasonal worker at GameStop with all tasks relating to customer service, sales, administrative work and general shop-keeping duties.

Ruoholahti, Helsinki

All possible responsibilities of running the store. These responsibilities included sales, customer service, the ordering and receiving of daily goods, archiving, and keeping the shop at its best. The work period also included monthly product and customer service training.

Helsinki Area, Finland

Sales, customer service and assisting in the dressing rooms. In the beginning of our work period, we went through a two week intensive customer service course, provided to us by the company.

Klaukkala, Nurmijärvi

I had all possible responsibilities of running the store. These responsibilities included sales, customer service, the ordering and receiving of daily goods, archiving, and keeping the shop at its best. The work period also included monthly product and customer service training.

Master'S Degree, Master'S Programme In English Studies

Completed a comprehensive specialization in Computational Linguistics. Minored in Computer Science. Currently writing thesis.

Bachelor'S Degree, English Philology

Activities and Societies: SUB RyMinor in General Linguistics and Language Technology, as well as methodology studies. Wrote thesis.

Bachelor'S Degree, Linguistics

Completed an exchange period of one semester in Zurich, where I focussed my studies on sociolinguistics and historical sociolinguistics.