I'm a Linguist and Software Engineer based in Seattle with a background in Natural Language Processing, including Speech Recognition, Natural Language Understanding, and Information Retrieval, with over a decade of programming experience. I have project management experience developing critical features with diverse partners supporting product launches like Meta Portal and Ray-Ban Stories. I'm focused on driving data-driven improvements, managing teams, and shaping the future of language technology.
Acted as linguistic project lead for major organization initiatives, developing linguistic foundation and future for Facebook Assistant on Ray-Ban Stories, Meta Quest, and Meta Portal, shipping four open source NLU data sets.
Led a four person engineering team to develop tools for ontology development, data annotation, quality management, and metrics.
Ontologist, annotator, and developer supporting digital assistant annotation workflows for Natural Language Understanding.
Led the injection of NLP techniques across several products, owning the delivery of high value, top of app content to top clients.
Contributed to direction, regression testing code, serialization format, and more.