Sonja Black Email & Phone Number

By day, I'm a mild-mannered technical writer at VoiceBox Technologies. But by night, I'm a freelance developmental editor helping aspiring writers improve the quality of their books.As a developmental editor, I provide in-depth analysis of clients manuscripts, in terms of writing craft, overall story structure (for novels) or organization (for non-fiction works), characterization, voice, et cetera. I give my clients actionable feedback on how they can specifically improve the work in… Show more By day, I'm a mild-mannered technical writer at VoiceBox Technologies. But by night, I'm a freelance developmental editor helping aspiring writers improve the quality of their books.As a developmental editor, I provide in-depth analysis of clients manuscripts, in terms of writing craft, overall story structure (for novels) or organization (for non-fiction works), characterization, voice, et cetera. I give my clients actionable feedback on how they can specifically improve the work in question, as well as raising their own skills for future works.I am also available for ghost writing, technical editing, and technical writing services. Show less

Bellevue, Wa

Data acquisition and vendor engagement lead for Oracle Cloud AI Services, focusing on data for multilingual speech recognition AI.

Bellevue, Wa

I am responsible for data science work involved in building speech-enabled IoT devices and cloud services. Duties include:* Named Entity Recognition (NER): Determining entity types, semantics, normalization, and tagging conventions for each conversational domain we support.* Natural Language Understanding (NLU): Determining the set of user-intentions that are valid within a domain and the semantics of each (intent classification).* Designing meaning representations within each… Show more I am responsible for data science work involved in building speech-enabled IoT devices and cloud services. Duties include:* Named Entity Recognition (NER): Determining entity types, semantics, normalization, and tagging conventions for each conversational domain we support.* Natural Language Understanding (NLU): Determining the set of user-intentions that are valid within a domain and the semantics of each (intent classification).* Designing meaning representations within each domain for use in downstream components.* Managing data sets for machine learning of both NER and NLU and running the training processes.* Designing crowdsourced data-collection tasks for NER and NLU and running those tasks on Mechanical Turk.* Creating scripts and other tools as necessary to improve the day-to-day processes for data collection, data grooming, training, etc. Show less

Bellevue, Wa

Sole technical writer at a software company of ~300 people. Responsibilities included creating documentation on integrating Voicebox’s speech solutions with customers’ products, as well as writing all marketing and corporate communications materials such as technical whitepapers, external newsletter articles, press releases, and product data sheets.

Software developer for internal tools to support documentation production workflows.

Managed a team of engineers and production staff responsible for delivering documentation for Microsoft Windows CE (now branded as Microsoft Windows Mobile). My team turned the efforts of our product's documentation writers into deliverable help formats such as Compiled HTML (CHM) or delivery to the web (MSDN Library).

Wrote technical documentation for an audience of programmers. During this time period I documented messaging protocols for attachment handling in the Microsoft Exchange Server team before moving to the Windows CE group where I was was the sole writer responsible for device driver documentation for Windows CE versions 1.01 through 3.0 (1996-2001).

Bachelor Of Science In Technical Communication (Bstc), Technical And Scientific Communication

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