Melissa Teo Email & Phone Number

• Write, research and edit articles adhering to stylistic guidelines for DigitalNow Asia’s websites on B2B technology (https://cioworldasia.com), B2B finance (https://digitalcfoasia.com) and B2C men's lifestyle news.
• Work closely with the editorial team to identify and capitalise on trends in audience interest
• Research new ideas for weekly site content through site-to-site analysis and multimedia outlets
• Curate press releases from external contributors to maintain website content on WordPress
• Manage interview pitch requests to conduct dialogues with industry stakeholders
• Support event operations from initial stages of development, through on-site and event wrap-up

Singapore

• Displayed self-directedness in learning linguistics concepts from scratch as a sociology major, to work effectively with linguistic major team members and Professor Francis Bond
• Vetted over 2 years of data sets on NTU Multilingual Corpus to develop a richly annotated corpus available as open data source accessible by public
• Researched cultural semantics and spelling of Victorian era vocabulary to tag a corpus of 6 Sherlock Holmes stories
• Reviewed tokenization and Parts of Speech tags (POS) using Natural Language Processing (NLP)
• Co-authored a paper submitted for 11th International Global Wordnet Conference 2021— Teaching Through Tagging: Interactive Lexical Semantics

• Translated Chinese TV drama scripts into English
• Worked on upcoming drama scripts from the shows “Nanyang Transport Volunteers” 《南洋英雄泪》and “Contenders” 《狮城山海》
• Projected competence in producing quality, accurate translations at an average rate of 2 pages per hour

• Vetted and edited Singaporean speech data transcripts using Subtitle Edit software
• Demonstrated resourcefulness in researching and checking spelling of Singlish vocabulary to validate speech data
• Speech data is targeted at teaching A.I programme to read and dictate text so as to help the visually impaired with accessing online information

Singapore

• Performed attentive service in processing delivery orders while serving up to 80 walk-in customers on a weekly basis
• Successfully managed Point of Sale cash system while under pressure to support an efficiently operated shift

Singapore

• Member of 'Myth Masters' project team, a card game aimed at teaching children Mandarin idioms using a bilingual (English-Mandarin) approach, accompanied by references to characters in Chinese literary novels
• Demonstrated project management skills in tasks including event logistics, on-site operations, marketing content development, and issue escalation
• Established goals, track and communicate event results such as, but not limited to, attendee numbers, redemption numbers and feedback
• Kept project website current with up-to-date marketing copy and upcoming event details

Bachelor Of Social Sciences (Hons With Merit), Sociology

Activities and Societies: Animal Lover Society Subcommittee (External Liaison Officer) - Conducted research about video gaming (Animal.

Spanish

• Studied Spanish language during a winter exchange programme

Diploma, Chinese Studies

Activities and Societies: Toastmasters Club • Studied in Nanjing University during a month-long exchange programme • Obtained Grade A in.

Education record

Activities and Societies: 2012-2014 Committee Member of Pixel Playhouse