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Shreveport, Louisiana, United States

Conducting research to inform the company's expansion of its data science, analytics, and machine learning capabilities. Carrying out spike tests to assess technical requirements involved in specific growth opportunities. Executing exploratory and confirmatory data science studies from start to finish. Explaining results of internal and external research to technical and non-technical audiences. Authoring white papers on best practices in research methods and data science. Providing technical content for research and engineering proposals. Serving as a bridge between business development and engineering teams. Advising on optimal technical approaches to deliver on customer requirements.

Remote

Conducted quantitative analysis of structured surveys of small business owners in Latin America to investigate their needs for digital tools Provided actionable suggestions for improvement of data quality, scalability, and interpretation of survey dataCompleted emotion analysis of over 2000 utterances using the acoustics of stance framework and k-means clustering (machine learning) to better understand respondents' attitudes towards survey topics

Greater Seattle Area

National Science Foundation-funded study of English spoken by underrepresented ethnic minorities in Washington State. Conducted fieldwork with African American, Chican@, and Yakama (Native American) consultants. Designed study instruments, conducted phonetic data analysis and social network analysis, and mentored undergraduate research assistants.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Collaborating with linguists and programmers to develop a front-end to Microsoft's speech-to-text engine. Annotating output for analysis of bias towards speakers of racialized varieties of English.

Greater Seattle Area

Teaching international students, immigrants, and refugees from diverse backgrounds.

Redmond, Wa

Teaching ESL reading, writing, grammar, listening, speaking, and vocabulary to graduate and undergraduate students. Students were preparing to enter degree programs in digital arts and animation and real-time interactive simulation.

Seattle, Wa

Designed and taught an ESL support class for students participating in a study abroad program relating to computers and society.

Full-time lecturer teaching Freshman English classes to students from 8 different colleges at the University. Collaborated in applied linguistics research on online reading and listening programs as well as research on standardized English language testing.

Teaching writing, listening, speaking and TESOL methods to students in the Department of Applied English. Co-directing the writing and conversation practice centers. Collaborating on applied linguistics research with colleagues.

Network administration, Support for Microsoft Windows 2000, Server 2003, XP Professional, Mac OS X. Support for MS Office Suite including MS Exchange, Norton Antivirus, iMovie. Support for laser and inkjet printers (network and local), hardware maintenance. Extensive use of Symantec Ghost. Instructing of educators on how to use technology in the classroom, teaching workshops on MS Office, Web Tools, and Troubleshooting, advising school administrators on purchases and policy. Developing a paperless (electronic) grading system using existing resources. Maintaining an online repository for resources on the above workshop topics.

Pacific Northwest English Project, NSF Grant# BCS-0643374Transcription processing, acoustic and auditory analysis, field recording, demographic data coding, server backup. Acoustic analysis using Praat Akustyk for Praat, File Maker Pro. Some program troubleshooting.

Network Administration, Support for Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 98 SE, NT, 2000 (server and client), XP Professional. Support for MS Office Suite including MS Exchange, Trend Micro Antivirus. Support for laser, inkjet, dot matrix printers (network and local), hardware maintenance, cable and DSL internet, some UNIX.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Linguistics

Certificate, Computer Programming

Six-month coding boot camp-style course that began with fundamentals of programming in Python. The course progressed to development of web.

M.A., Teaching English To Speakers Of Other Languages, 3.98

B.A., Linguistics, 3.81

Activities and Societies: Delta Lambda Phi Social Fraternity, Huskeys a Capella chorus, Husky Capture the FlagGraduated cum laude.