Experience

Gap International

• Business Consulting and Services
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Linguist / Consultant

  • Sep 2021 - Present



The University of Edinburgh

• United Kingdom
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Research Assistant - Phonetic Annotator

  • Sep 2019 - Sep 2021

  • Phonetic analysis and annotations for collaborated research projects; identifying and placing boundaries between sounds, identifying errors and patterns in the speech signal• Duties involve fine-grained analysis of speech audio files via waveform and spectrographic comparisons (using EMU-SDMS and PRAAT)• Collaborating with Post-Doctoral research assistants and lead researches when developing and implementing annotation criteria for languages of study (e.g. German, French, Italian, Butlih, Swedish)• Implementing new platforms for annotations; creating a local EMU database for more efficient exchange of data between researchers working remotely, easing statistical processing of data



University of California, Santa Cruz

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Apr 2016 - Sep 2018

  • Focused on the time-course of single-word utterances in speech production and reading aloud tasks.• Main Objective: To examine the theoretical issues related to the Minimal Processing Unit and Articulatory Latency in speech. • Involved understanding phonetic and phonological terminology, physical properties of speech (i.e. frequency, intensity, duration), and functionality of PRAAT and Adobe After effects software• Attended weekly lab meetings, documented and presented acoustic findings in lab meetings, and lead PRAAT training sessions for new Research Assistants