Resume

• 2011

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

  Broadly trained with specialization in corpus linguistics

  sociolinguistic variation

  pragmatics

  and phonetics/phonology.\n\nDissertation: \"Variable object clitic placement: Evidence from European and Brazilian Portuguese\"

  Hispanic Linguistics

  The Ohio State University

• 2009

  Master of Arts (MA)

  Hispanic Linguistics

  The Ohio State University

• 2008

  Hispanic Linguistics

  The University of Texas at Austin

• 2006

  Universidade de Coimbra

• 2004

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.)

  Graduated Summa Cum Laude and awarded highest honors on senior thesis project entitled \"Anomalies in Romance Noun Gender: The Evolution of Latin Nouns and Cross-linguistic Variation\". Inducted into Phi Beta Kappa upon graduation.

  Linguistics

  Portuguese

  Middlebury College

• 103.01

  The Ohio State University

  • Taught undergraduate courses in Spanish and Portuguese as the instructor of record\n• Planned and implementing lessons

  practice

  and assessment in communicative language teaching\n• Introduced students to concepts of linguistic study

  variation

  and analysis\n\nCourses taught:\n\n• Elementary and intermediate language courses\nSpanish 102.66

  104\nPortuguese 102.01

  101.51-104.51\n\n• Advanced linguistics courses for majors and minors:\nSpanish (3)401: Advanced Grammar\nSpanish 3404: Spanish Pronunciation & Phonetics\nPortuguese 3401: Advanced Grammar\nPortuguese 5501: Portuguese for Spanish Speakers

  Graduate Teaching Associate

  Columbus

  Ohio Area

  Middlebury

  Vermont

  • Provided assistance in archiving

  database creation and management

  and filling patron orders with the Special Collections Library\n• Worked on special projects to develop and catalog new acquisitions

  Special Collections Archive Associate

  Middlebury College

  • Led Lower Division Spanish language labs as instructor of record\n• TAed (graded and assisted) under the supervision of Lower Division language instructors

  Teaching Assistant

  Austin

  Texas Area

  University of Texas at Austin

  Managing an international team of expert linguists and providing consultation and professional project management services for customers seeking linguistic data annotation. Focused on data supporting TTS/ASR technology development

  as well as search and sentiment improvement using custom taxonomies in an ever-expanding set of languages.

  Manager

  AI Specialists

  Appen

  Partnering with clients to deliver high quality linguistic data

  with expertise in planning and execution services for diverse data annotation projects including:\n• Named entity recognition\n• Semantic labeling\n• Machine translation\n• Sentiment analysis\n• Voice technologies

  Appen

  The Ohio State University

  Investigated linguistic variation and change of morphosyntactic and phonetic variables in Portuguese

  focusing on the social and internal linguistic correlates

  which involved specifically:\n\n• Planning

  writing proposals for

  and executing projects from conception through completion

  including research design using quantitative and qualitative research methods\n• Collecting

  transcribing and annotating data

  and building statistical models using R for data analysis\n• Summarizing research results and implications in concise abstracts and presentations for peer audiences\n• Collaborating with colleagues on joint projects for presentation and publication\n• Writing grants for data collection and conference presentations

  Graduate Researcher

  Columbus

  Ohio Area

  English

  Italian

  French

  Spanish

  Portuguese

  German

• Variation Analysis

  Data Analysis

  Corpus Linguistics

  Editing

  Linguistics

  Language Teaching

  Morphology

  Phonetics

  French

  Teaching

  Data Coding

  Regression Analysis

  University Teaching

  Data Collection

  Higher Education

  R

  Portuguese

  Multivariate Statistics

  Spanish

  Washington

  Hannah

  The Ohio State University

  Appen

  Middlebury College

  University of Texas at Austin

  Appen