This is a central location to find my career credentials and work samples, in various formats.
This repo is under active construction; please email me for information about my work history beyond what is here already.
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I am an extremely passionate engineer/scientist/linguist/nerd who works in the area of NLP. I got into this work because I delight in learning about, manipulating, and describing the structure, form, and meaning of natural languages and other symbolic systems.
- Legacy system analysis and opportunistic refactoring especially in complex enterprise AI systems
- Human factors analysis and risk management for data products
- Documentation generation
- Novel feature development
- Collaboration with stakeholders at all levels
- International team and project engineering coordination
- Finding problems AND problem sources in code
- Speaking to non-technical audiences
- Collaborations
- Asking the right questions
- Developing standards
- Documentation
- Tech evangelism
- I tend to prefer to build towards tools rather than one-offs
- When I get excited about a project I live life on -v
- Code hoarding; idea hoarding--my office looks like a paper bomb went off
- I tend to prefer to build towards tools rather than one-offs
Review of the 2013 state-of-the-art and state-of-the-industry architectures and ML methods for data-driven waveform generation in Text to Speech systems
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A digital dictionary with searchable information about the Nahuatl Language.
I designed, wrote, and implemented a tool to automatically generate orthographic and IPA phonological variants based on text analysis and phonotactic constraints.
- Dictionary direct link (seems to be in digital decay)
- Dictionary review on the language tech blog "The Polyglotist"
An open-access double-blind peer-reviewed journal of undergraduate research at the University of Oregon.
I served on the founding Editorial Board from 2011-2012. I managed and established standards and processes for web tools, collaboration technology, and I wrote documentation and policies, and provided tech support for author management, layout, and survey data collection analysis.
- Write The Docs
- PDX WIT (Women in Tech)
- PyLadies PDX
- IEEE Signal Processing Society
- 2018 || Write The Docs Portland 2018 (submitted; awaiting decision)
- 2017 || SpeechTek 2017 (Invited, not given; please reach out for details)
- 2017 || "Challenges in creating speech recognition for endangered language CALL: A Chickasaw case study." International Conference On Language Documentation and Conservation 2017
- 2016 || Interspeech San Francisco (Attendee Representing Rosetta Stone)
- 2015 || ASRU Scottsdale (Attendee Representing Rosetta Stone)
- 2015 || ICASSP Brisbane, Australia (Attendee Representing Rosetta Stone)
- 2013 || eu:sci Magazine
- August 2013 || “Text-to-Speech Synthesis: What is it, what can we do with it, and where is it going?” Presentation and demonstration of the findings of my Master's thesis work to a general audience at the Edinburgh TechMeetup.
For recruiter or other inquiries please email me at this link.