Christina Steena
San Jose,CA
Summary
Taxonomist/Linguistic Reviewer/Localization Specialist with expertise in multilingual taxonomy and metadata development and curation, data annotation, transcription, analysis, regulatory policy, research, and training. Experience applying complex guidelines in e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and machine learning classification projects. Skilled in providing high-quality services while managing projects simultaneously under tight deadlines. Native German language expert.
Overview
10
10
years of professional experience
Work History
Taxonomy Analyst
Vettanna LLC under contract to eBay
04.2020 - 12.2023
- Develop, implement, and maintain multi-dimensional global e-commerce taxonomy for US, UK, Australian and German marketplace sites
- Optimize design of existing entity types, aspects, values, and metadata to facilitate comprehensive, user-friendly buying and selling experience
- Created ten new globally aligned entity types and dozens of categories across the Business & Industrial, Sporting Goods, Home & Garden and Toys verticals
- Perform competitor analysis for attributes to maintain common language across marketplace platforms
- Utilize industry best practices for taxonomy modeling, development, maintenance, improvement, and governance
- Collaborated with data governance and policy/legal team to ensure quality and consistency
- Proxy to UK based Taxonomy Lead during US time zone work hours as result of strong work performance
- Recognized for providing highest quality German language localization on multiple taxonomy projects
Crowdsourcing Technical Program Manager
Workforce Logiq under contract to LinkedIn
01.2020 - 04.2020
- Collaborating with internal machine learning teams on Human Judgment and Crowdsourcing projects for US and German markets
- Deliver multiple projects, priorities and deliveries within specified budget and deadlines
- Developing procedure guidelines in collaboration with product and taxonomy teams
- Designing and implementing custom jobs to collect human annotation data using internal and external platforms
- Analyzing collected crowdsourced data for quality and accuracy as well as providing feedback and guidance to managed crowd vendor
- Project Manager of internal month to month competitor evaluations pertaining to Job Search results
- Delivered 97% labeled data accuracy of German language job qualifications Crowdsourcing project to product team due to thorough training feedback
Linguistic Reviewer / Application QA Testing
Welocalize under contract to Apple Inc
10.2016 - 08.2019
- Analyzed German language data sets with focus on Siri performance improvement by following strict set of guidelines
- Provided junior and senior international localization annotators with thorough and concise training feedback daily
- Tracked and reported testing error patterns, bugs, and team member adherence to best practices through internal database system
- Collaborated with international testing teams and engineers to reproduce speech recognition failures
- Assisted Siri Project Management Team by answering global inquiries and resolving training feedback disputes from annotators
- Entrusted with additional administrative Project Management responsibilities due to strong job performance
- Increased accuracy and performance of assigned product support team
- Created and documented improved German language guidelines for product testing
Data Analyst Consultant
Smartstream Technologies
10.2013 - 10.2016
- Provided high volume financial data services for derivative financial products and equities to Morgan Stanley trade desk employees worldwide
- Created documentation and procedures of daily tasks
- Executed frequent time-critical data changes in Morgan Stanley database
- Recognized for reducing a large backlog of financial product data updates
- Exceeded product setup accuracy standards
Education
Studies in Business Management and Marketing -
University of Siegen
Siegen, GermanySome College (No Degree) -
High School Bad Zwischenahn-Edewecht
Bad Zwischenahn, GermanySkills
- Strong verbal and written communication
- MacOS
- Windows
- Google Suite
- Atlassian Jira
- Atlassian Confluence
- Slack
- ChatGPT
- Regulatory Compliance
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Analytical and Critical Thinking
- Report Preparation
- Multiple Priorities Management
- Team Collaboration and Leadership
- Tableau Software
Languages
German
Native or Bilingual
Timeline
Taxonomy Analyst
Vettanna LLC under contract to eBay
04.2020 - 12.2023
Crowdsourcing Technical Program Manager
Workforce Logiq under contract to LinkedIn
01.2020 - 04.2020
Linguistic Reviewer / Application QA Testing
Welocalize under contract to Apple Inc
10.2016 - 08.2019
Data Analyst Consultant
Smartstream Technologies
10.2013 - 10.2016
Studies in Business Management and Marketing -
University of Siegen
Some College (No Degree) -
High School Bad Zwischenahn-Edewecht
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