Marie Hunter

About

I am a data analyst and computational linguist with 3.5 years of professional experience as well as time spent in academia. I primarily do contract work, I am a quick learner, and I love the banjo.

Experience

Contractor for Appen

Jul 2019 – Present

Remote

Analyst/Linguist

Work on multiple projects simultaneously with teams throughout the world for a company specializing in machine learning and artificial intelligence products. Demonstrate organizational and time management skills, working independently to execute quality deliverables in time-constrained environments. Selected Contributions:  Collaborate with international teams across multiple time zones to assess needs, problem solve, and deliver cohesive results.  Quickly on-board for new projects and contracts as they arise, learn new skills as needed.  Annotate and create data for linguistics and non-linguistics project.

Blackbox Intelligence

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019

Dallas, TX

NLP Consultant

Combined linguistic expertise and analytic skills to temporarily take over the NLP team and evaluate the efficacy of key parts of the Whitebox Social Intelligence system, create a plan for improvement, and begin implementing those changes. Six-month contract position. Selected Contributions:  Assessed needs, developed timelines, and established research practices to ensure outcomes in specific timeframes.  Provided performance-focused direction to a team; led team meetings, and delegated tasks  Performed troubleshooting and maintained corpus databases and libraries to support project needs.  Evaluated and revamped the semantic annotation system that was in place; trained interns on annotation with the new system and performed quality assurance on everything that came through.  Utilized technology to secure, manage, and clean big data sets for research and testing purposes; using SQL, queried large and com-plex relational databases; used data to troubleshoot backend issues.  Conducted rigorous data analysis to gain insights to increase functionality of the product and write reports and recommendations for clients and management  Leveraged data-driven findings to create extensive technical documentation for all NLP processes.

Contractor with Lionbridge

May 2017 – Dec 2018

Remote

Analyst/Computational Linguist

Worked on numerous machine learning initiatives for a multinational company specializing in language translation, localization, and e-learning translation. Demonstrated organizational and time management skills executing deliverables in time-constrained environments. Selected Contributions:  Annotated data sets according to different systems and documentation (linguistic and non-linguistic) with a quick turn-around.  Analyzed documentation and developed and implemented NLP solutions to improve quality, localization, and learner outcomes;  Developed and tested grammar rules and researched language to base rules on accurate, up-to-date, and locale specific data.  Managed large data sets, conducted analysis, performed quality assurance testing, and corrected bugs, redundancies, errors, and other performance issues.

Education

University of Kentucky

Aug 2015 – Aug 2017

Master of Arts, Linguistics

Brigham Young University

Aug 2009 – May 2015

Linguist

Skills