Jessica Cleary Kemp
Cedar Park,TX
Resumo
I am a semantic metadata specialist who is motivated by tackling novel challenges. I am seeking a role in a company that focuses on improving user experiences and business outcomes via human-centered knowledge engineering.
Visão geral
16
16
years of professional experience
Experiência profissional
Senior Ontologist/Taxonomist
BOLD
2022.06 - 2026.09
- Designed and developed the core taxonomies powering all of the company's products
Senior Content Taxonomist and Ontologist
Udacity
2021.03 - 2022.05
- Collaborated with cross-functional stakeholders, including C-level executives, to define Udacity's taxonomy and ontology vision.
- Conducted multi-modal UX research and SME interviews to inform taxonomy requirements and design decisions.
- Combined qualitative and quantitative insights with competitive research to create a taxonomy of almost 3000 tech skills.
- Spearheaded selection and adoption of 3rd party taxonomy management system (Mondeca ITM).
- Partnered with Director of Content Strategy to create a tool that enabled pre-sales teams to build customized learning paths for clients in real time.
- Built an ontology and knowledge graph to support algorithmic course recommender.
- Developed and provided training on semantic metadata governance standards across the company.
Taxonomy and Ontology Analyst
Indeed
Austin, TX
2020.02 - 2021.03
- Developed ontological relationships between skills and occupations to power recommendation engines and faceted search.
- Responded to stakeholder requests for product integrations to solve user pain points.
- Incorporated insights from user interviews, card sorts, tree tests, and other UX research into taxonomy and ontology design.
- Queried logs stored in a document database, and leveraged this data to make user-centric improvements to taxonomies and ontologies.
- Wrote rules and trained ML models to achieve 95%+ precision and recall.
Lead Linguistic Researcher
University of California
Berkeley, CA
2010.10 - 2015.08
- Interviewed speakers to inform the development and iteration of a controlled vocabulary to categorize lexical items in a previously unfamiliar language (Koro)
- Developed a taxonomy of relationships between words in Koro (semantic domains, etymology, synonyms, antonyms, hyponyms, hypernyms, etc.), based on interviews and corpus analysis
- Created and applied metadata to a database of hundreds of digital artifacts (audio and video recordings, text files, photos, etc.) to prepare them for archiving
Formação acadêmica
MA & PhD - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley
BerkeleyHabilidades e competências
- Knowledge engineering
- Metadata management
- Data governance
- Taxonomy and ontology design
- Information architecture
- Controlled vocabularies
- Thesauri
- Linked data
- Knowledge graphs
- Triplestores
- RDF
- SPARQL
- OWL
- SKOS
- ANSI/NISO Z3919-2005
- ISO 25964
- W3C semantic web standards
- Tableau
- Advanced Excel
- Pivot tables
- PoolParty
- Mondeca ITM
- Google suite
- SQL
- Regex
- Basic Python
- XML
- JSON
- Lucerne
- Atlassian suite
- Jira
- Confluence
- Trello
- Miro
- LucidChart
- Coda
- NoSQL databases
- Boolean logic
- UX research
- User interviews
- Requirements gathering
- Card sorts
- Tree testing
- Roadmaps
- Gantt charts
- Stakeholder management
- Executive communication
- Scoping
- Design sprints
- Cross-functional collaboration
- Qualitative research
- Quantitative research
- Competitive research
- Trabalho em equipe colaborativo
Personalizado
Knowledge engineering, Metadata management, Data governance, Taxonomy and ontology design, Information architecture, Controlled vocabularies, Thesauri, Linked data, Knowledge graphs, Triplestores, RDF, SPARQL, OWL, SKOS, ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005, ISO 25964, W3C semantic web standards, Tableau, Advanced Excel, Pivot tables, PoolParty, Mondeca ITM, Google suite, SQL, Regex, Basic Python, XML, JSON, Lucerne, Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, Trello), Miro, LucidChart, Coda, NoSQL databases, Boolean logic, UX research, User interviews, Requirements gathering, Card sorts, Tree testing, Roadmaps, Gantt charts, Stakeholder management, Executive communication, Scoping, Design sprints, Cross-functional collaboration, Qualitative research, Quantitative research, Competitive research
Linha do tempo
Senior Ontologist/Taxonomist
BOLD
2022.06 - 2026.09
Senior Content Taxonomist and Ontologist
Udacity
2021.03 - 2022.05
Taxonomy and Ontology Analyst
Indeed
2020.02 - 2021.03
Lead Linguistic Researcher
University of California
2010.10 - 2015.08
MA & PhD - Linguistics
University of California, Berkeley