Simon Hammond Email and Phone Number
I'm an effective and agile computational linguist and manager. I pride myself on a mix of technical and interpersonal skills, and I love being able to bring people of different backgrounds together to do their best work on a project.I currently work on Product Localisation at Canva, leading initiatives to improve translation quality and international user experience as well as making life easier for the fantastic linguists we have on our localisation teams.While at Canva, I have also lead the Internationalisation team in building and refining the infrastructure for hundreds of words per day to be reliably localised into over a hundred locales for the benefit of hundreds of millions of users.My previous roles have included: leading teams of computational linguists working on corpus creation, quality analysis, and solution design; coaching clients on important aspects of language technology or language-specific data analysis; full-stack development on Appen's proprietary lexicon creation web tool; Scrum master and product owner roles in other tool development lifecycles; TTS voice building for Australian English; corpus collection for Automated Speech Recognition; CFG tuning for NLP systems; peer review for ICASSP and Interspeech; and delivering guest lectures at Macquarie University and Western Sydney University.
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Localisation Tech LeadCanva Apr 2023 - PresentSydney, New South Wales, Australia○ Senior individual contributor, advising teams across the organisation for localisation and internationalisation best practices.○ Working on trust and safety for AI in languages other than English.○ Designing and maintaining processes for measuring translation quality and linking translation quality to international user experience.○ Process automation and improvements for reliability, turnaround times, and cost efficiency for localisation operations in over a hundred languages. -
Internationalisation Team LeadCanva Jun 2021 - Apr 2023Sydney, New South Wales, Australia○ Managing a close-knit team of engineers.○ Expanding the team from three people to six and broadening the scope from system maintenance to user-facing feature development, localisation operations, and security and quality improvements.○ Directly maintaining and updating the internationalisation system for a tool with millions of users in over a hundred languages.○ Working with product managers and developers to ensure both groups can have translation and localisation take place as smoothly as possible.○ Conducting behavioural interviews for engineering candidates across the company.○ Training new managers/coaches and offering mentorship to new leaders.
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Senior ManagerAppen Oct 2019 - Jun 2021Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAs below, and○ Managing a team of computational linguists, advising them on solution design and balancing their workloads and development opportunities.○ Mentoring and training linguists and programmers throughout the organisation.○ Acting as advisor to clients exploring new opportunities and product types. -
Senior Computational LinguistAppen Mar 2018 - Oct 2019Sydney, New South Wales, AustraliaAs below, and○ Conducting training courses on applied linguistics in various languages, for externalclients who maintain names corpora but lack technical or linguistic backgrounds.○ Guest lecturing in speech processing at Macquarie University; collaborating withacademics from Melbourne University and the Australian National University toimprove corpus collection and data processing.○ Conducting peer review (since 2015) for Interspeech and ICASSP conferencepapers, and for the journal of Speech Communication.○ Representing Appen at conferences and meetups of theSydney NLP group○ Acting as Agile/Scrum business owner and consultant for Ampersand’s implementation of phonemic transcription.
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Computational LinguistAppen Oct 2010 - Mar 2018○ Conducting training on machine learning and applied data-driven solution design forinternal clients across several departments and teams.○ Implementing data-driven approaches to letter-to-sound rule generation,vowelisation, syllabification and stress, and language identification in a large variety of languages (Danish, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic, Dari, Pashto, English, Welsh, Gaelic, French, Thai).○ Maintaining AppenLex, an online tool for phonemic transcription and word annotation. Bug fixing and new feature implementation in a legacy codebase, working on both front end and back end development.○ Optimising queries for complex SQL databases to improve run times and user feedback loops.○ Creating and tuning ASR grammar sets for natural language interactions in automotive settings.○ Writing and testing of scripts and regular expressions for specialised back end processing and normalisation of natural language data, working both as product owner and as software engineer.○ Creating pronunciation lexicons in a variety of languages, including: creation of pronunciation hypotheses; recruiting and supervising independent contractors in their corrections of the hypotheses; running quality and consistency checks; and packaging and analysing the completed lexicons.
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LinguistAppen Feb 2007 - Oct 2010Sydney, New South Wales, Australia○ Acting as product owner for development of proprietary online transcription tool.○ Developing and maintaining internal wiki structure to keep colleagues updated onprocess updates and development.○ Processing and packaging of speech corpora and transcriptions, to reach appropriateconsistency standards, formatting, and tag sets for machine learning standards.○ Training and supervision of native speakers in the use of proprietary transcriptionsoftware, including configuring the tool to adapt to each language's needs.
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Computational LinguistApple Oct 2017 - Feb 2018Cupertino, California, United States
Simon Hammond Education Details
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Speech And Language Technology -
Linguistics
Frequently Asked Questions about Simon Hammond
What company does Simon Hammond work for?
Simon Hammond works for Canva
What is Simon Hammond's role at the current company?
Simon Hammond's current role is Localisation Tech Lead at Canva.
What schools did Simon Hammond attend?
Simon Hammond attended The University Of Edinburgh, University Of Sydney.
Who are Simon Hammond's colleagues?
Simon Hammond's colleagues are Cancino, John Joseph V., Katrina Escalona, Sophie Turner, Millie Scurr, Paulo Esdras De Sales Silva, María Emilia Mónaco, Saira Adnan.
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