Anna Braico

• Spearheaded projects focusing on AI applications, including computer vision and NLP, enhancing business processes and customer insights.
• Successfully managed multiple projects simultaneously by prioritizing tasks according to urgency, resource availability, and alignment with organizational goals.
• Managed risk assessments and implemented mitigation strategies to minimize potential issues during project execution.
• Planned, designed, and scheduled phases for large projects.
• Mentored junior team members in project management best practices to enhance their skills and contribute to better overall performance.
• Established effective communication among team members for enhanced collaboration and successful project completion.
• Monitored project performance to identify areas of improvement and make adjustments.
• Provided detailed project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
• Developed strong relationships with stakeholders through regular communication updates, fostering trust and confidence in the team''s ability to deliver results.
• Sourced, vetted and managed vendors needed to accomplish project goals.

• Provided expertise in AI portfolio management, focusing on model versioning, monitoring, and the application of AI in business processes.

• Performed operation, production, and account management, leading projects from kick-off to delivery; projects involving data research and analytics, machine learning and natural language processing models, topic modeling, audience and market analytics, qualitative and quantitative research and analysis, data visualization, reporting, providing insights into market, brands, and user experience research.

• Managing staff and resource planning for current and future projects, gathering requirements, establishing and maintaining success metrics.

• Creating and implementing architecture of production workflows.

• Effectively provide client journey support from onboarding to establishing lasting relations through renewals and expansion.

• Provide leadership and mentorship to the team members, and support to the Marketing and Sales teams.

• Overseeing the creation and maintenance of documentation.

• Lead implementation projects for integrating localization proxy solution for web content, CMS, and mobile apps, managing projects from kick-off to final delivery (e.g. resourcing, budgeting, internal/client kick-off, status calls and meetings, reports, etc.)

• Offered dynamic and effective client services and account management, serving as the primary point of contact, providing daily monitoring for urgent client requests, troubleshooting of internal and client-specific tools.

• Determined scope for new projects and maintained compliance with project

specifications, ensuring that deliverables meet or exceed client expectations; excelled at gathering feedback and requirements.

• Managed and coordinated the workflow of multiple local and remote teams (engineering, QA, product development, linguistic, etc.); evaluated their performances and quality of work to ensure compliance with project specifications, and assumed quality assurance leadership.

• Created user stories for web and mobile application development, discovering and describing functional requirements and test cases for system and business analysis.

• Developed requirements for UX and UI, validating wireframes and prototypes.

• Provided liaison between the client and the delivery team; assisted in the definition of a separate product line - Fitness Analytics Data Engine, focusing on API level interfaces.

• Performed product research; offered fitness monitoring devices data integration and analysis.

• Worked towards the goal of Russian language search localization, improving the quality of search engine results, and user/device interactions.

• Created taxonomies and annotations for theme-based content, updated semantic models, resolved linguistic and technical issues, performed quality control.

• Integrated the process into Google development methodology and utilized source control and bug tracking tools.

• Annotated, reviewed, and researched linguistic data; labeled texts with semantic, syntactic, and morphological features; offered semantic analysis and parsing. • Delivered NLP data for new and ongoing projects; provided linguistic software testing • Developed technical documentation for linguistic software.