Ontologist

• Jun 2022 - Present

Content Taxonomist

• Mar 2021 - Jun 2022

Taxonomy & ontology analyst

• Feb 2020 - Mar 2021

I designed and improved taxonomies and ontologies that help people get jobs. I designed and improved taxonomies and ontologies that help people get jobs.

Research Assistant

• Aug 2009 - Jul 2016

AUTOTYP typological database: Helped build a typology of verbal inflections in 61 disparate languages by interpreting syntactic and semantic information in published grammatical descriptions.Survey of California and Other Indian Languages: Digitized linguistic fieldnotes and audio recordings and entered and maintained metadata in the database; liaised with stakeholders including researchers and community members.Project: “Who did the what now?”: Annotated a corpus of video recordings with detailed gesture information.

Linguistic researcher

• Aug 2008 - Aug 2015

In 2010 I secured a $95,000 grant from the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (at the University of London) for the project "Documentation and description of Papitalai, an Oceanic language of Papua New Guinea". I conducted field research on the previously undocumented language, and wrote a description and analysis of its syntactic and semantic structure.

Graduate Student Instructor

• Aug 2010 - Aug 2014

Taught linguistic analysis and reading, writing, and research skills to undergraduates. Designed and taught the curriculum for an endangered languages course. Won "Outstanding GSI" award.

Publications Assistant

• 2006 - 2008

Edited and proofread academic books, journal articles, newsletters, etc. Helped to prepare competitive grant applications. Assisted visiting scholars with administrative and practical matters such as opening bank accounts. Edited and proofread academic books, journal articles, newsletters, etc. Helped to prepare competitive grant applications. Assisted visiting scholars with administrative and practical matters such as opening bank accounts.

Research Assistant

• 2004 - 2007

Transcribed and analyzed audio recordings in an unfamiliar language. Edited and proofread linguistic articles and book chapters. Transcribed and analyzed audio recordings in an unfamiliar language. Edited and proofread linguistic articles and book chapters.