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Jonathan Gress-Wright

Baltimore,MD

Summary

Professional linguist with deep expertise in language analysis, translation, and cultural interpretation. Adept at fostering collaboration and driving results within diverse teams, adapting seamlessly to evolving project requirements. Experience managing hundreds of vendors across over 50 languages in a fast-paced, complex environment. Recognized for strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and effective communication. Highly reliable and motivated to contribute meaningfully to organizational goals.

Overview

14
14
years of professional experience

Work History

Linguist

Appen
10.2018 - 07.2025
  • Text annotation (semantic parsing)
  • Machine translation evaluation
  • Machine translation post-editing
  • Transcription editing
  • Lexicon generation
  • Entity linking
  • Language test development
  • LLM prompt and response evaluation
  • Communicating project specifications from client to vendors
  • Establishing timelines and quality metrics with client
  • Vendor qualification (testing and calibration)
  • Guidelines development
  • Providing feedback to and answering questions from vendors
  • Pilots for complex workflows, QA, and delivery
  • Project effort estimates
  • Creating and approving project invoices

Writing Tutor

Smarthinking
09.2015 - 12.2019
  • Advised students on improving essay composition and structure

Annotator

Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania)
04.2011 - 09.2018
  • Syntactic annotation
  • Part-of-speech annotation
  • Event annotation
  • Machine translation post-editing
  • Named entity labeling

Linguist/Language expert

Self-employed
01.2012 - 09.2018
  • Text localization and synthetic speech tuning
  • Phonetic transcription and consultation
  • Phonetic transcription
  • Voice quality evaluation
  • Query parsing
  • Discourse coherence evaluation

Part-time Lecturer

Rutgers University
09.2012 - 12.2013
  • Taught introduction to linguistics, phonetics and phonology

Adjunct Professor

Drexel University
01.2012 - 06.2012
  • Taught introduction to linguistics

Adjunct Professor

St Joseph’s University
01.2012 - 06.2012
  • Taught introduction to linguistics

Education

PhD - Linguistics

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
01.2010

Skills

  • Computational linguistics
  • Language technology
  • Sociolinguistics awareness
  • Textual analysis

Accomplishments

  • Collaborated in the development of a multi-language machine translator for a major tech client.
  • Worked on an indigenous language documentation and revitalization project for an academic client.
  • Applied new scripting skills to help with lexicon generation

Languages

English
Native or Bilingual
French
Elementary
Danish
Elementary

Timeline

Linguist

Appen
10.2018 - 07.2025

Writing Tutor

Smarthinking
09.2015 - 12.2019

Part-time Lecturer

Rutgers University
09.2012 - 12.2013

Linguist/Language expert

Self-employed
01.2012 - 09.2018

Adjunct Professor

Drexel University
01.2012 - 06.2012

Adjunct Professor

St Joseph’s University
01.2012 - 06.2012

Annotator

Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania)
04.2011 - 09.2018

PhD - Linguistics

University of Pennsylvania