resume.json

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	"basics":
	{
		"name": "Ryan Hildebrandt",
		"label": "Data Scientist & NLP Specialist",
		"summary": "Broadly, I'm an interdisciplinary data scientist with special interests in psycholinguistics, computational linguistics, statistics, and Japanese. More specifically, I apply statistical and natural language processing techniques to solve problems and enrich my and my team's understanding of whatever data is at hand. I bring a strong statistical emphasis to my work, whether in the form of data handling, ad-hoc statistical analyses, or machine learning applications",
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		"phone": "",
		"email": "ryancahildebrandt@gmail.com",
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		"location":
		{
			"address": "",
			"postalCode": "",
			"city": "Corning",
			"countryCode": "USA",
			"region": "New York"
		},
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				"network": "Github",
				"username": "ryancahildebrandt",
				"url": "https://github.com/ryancahildebrandt"
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			{
				"network": "LinkedIn",
				"username": "rcah",
				"url": "https://linkedin.com/in/rcah"
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			{
				"network": "ResearchGate",
				"username": "Ryan Hildebrandt",
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		{
			"company": "Botcopy",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Senior CCAI Engineer: ML/AI & NLP Specialist",
			"startDate": "2024-06",
			"endDate": "Present",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Engineer NLP analytics pipelines to extract insights from conversational data and improve on Google's native analytics",
				"Test and evaluate generative models for use across conversational agents, aligning model characteristics with client requirements",
				"Build, deploy, and optimize both sateful and generative Google CCAI agents in line with client needs"
			],
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				"full",
				"data"
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		},
		{
			"company": "TekSystems for Google CCAI",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Lead Engineer: ML/AI, NLP, & Analytics Specialist",
			"startDate": "2022-06",
			"endDate": "2024-06",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Design NLP pipelines, analytics tools, and generative AI applications in response to client needs via GCP services",
				"Engineer and implement solutions including data migration from spreadsheets to BigQuery, data cleaning, KPI tracking, clustering unlabeled free text responses, and training custom models to simplify analytics",
				"Coordinate data processing team efforts for labeling datasets, developing classification guidelines, and technical process documentation"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data"
			]
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		{
			"company": "TekSystems for Google CCAI",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Data Designer -- Contract",
			"startDate": "2021-06",
			"endDate": "2022-06",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Apply statistical and machine learning techniques to analyze client data",
				"Generate insights from analyzed data to make recommendations for product improvements",
				"Design, build, and maintain Google CCAI agents for client-specific use cases as well as NLP experiments"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Cerence, Inc.",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Japanese Natural Language Understanding Specialist -- Contract",
			"startDate": "2020-11",
			"endDate": "2021-04",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Extend NLU grammars used for speech recognition models with necessary labels and semantic tags",
				"Analyze and correct errors in NLU machine learning model output in an accurate and timely manner",
				"Localize English NLU resources into Japanese for use by a variety of global automakers in intent classification and semantic labeling"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "CoreLogic",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Senior Operations Associate",
			"startDate": "2020-02",
			"endDate": "2020-08",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Synthesize tax information from company, mortgage client, and public agency databases in order to resolve tax issues",
				"Use knowledge of client and internal company procedures to resolve tax issues in a timely manner",
				"Coordinate with team members and leads to resolve assigned tasks efficiently, while continuing to learn new problem solving procedures daily"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Varsity Tutors",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Statistics & Data Analysis Tutor",
			"startDate": "2019-09",
			"endDate": "2022-05",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Online tutoring for high school, undergraduate, and graduate level students",
				"Specializing in statistics and data analysis using R, Python, and SPSS",
				"Additional tutoring in Japanese, social science research design, and academic writing"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Statistics & Psychology Tutor",
			"startDate": "2019-09",
			"endDate": "2020-01",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"In person tutoring for undergraduate and graduate level students",
				"Specializing in statistics and psychological research using R and SPSS"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Research & Teaching Assistant",
			"startDate": "2018-01",
			"endDate": "2020-02",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Oversee several psychology research studies from literature review through data collection, manipulation, analysis, and presentation",
				"Utilize R, Python, SPSS, Tableau, and Qualtrics to complete the various stages of research",
				"Apply knowledge of research best practices, data management, and statistics to ensure integrity and accuracy of all stages of research"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Concordia Language Villages",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Japanese Language & Cultural Activities Instructor, Academic Year Program",
			"startDate": "2020-09",
			"endDate": "2021-04",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Teach Japanese language classes for high school credit, working with students ranging from beginner to intermediate-advanced level",
				"Lead virtual Japanese cultural activities including cooking, tea ceremony, and calligraphy as a part of CLV's academic year programs"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Concordia Language Villages",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Japanese High-School Credit Teacher, Summer Session",
			"startDate": "2017-07",
			"endDate": "2019-08",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Teach daily Japanese language classes for students ranging from beginner to ~300 level Japanese, including curriculum structuring, lesson planning, student assessments, and a range of activities and projects to showcase student outcomes",
				"Classes take place over 4 weeks as a part of CLV's Accredited high school credit Summer programs, equivalent to one academic year of instruction totaling 180 hours when combined with other immersion activities at the camp"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"company": "Concordia Language Villages",
			"website": "",
			"position": "Summer Camp Counselor",
			"startDate": "2015-07",
			"endDate": "2016-08",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Collaborate with other counseling staff to run Mori No Ike Japanese Language Immersion Camp for a period of four to five weeks, working with children and students ages 8 to 18",
				"Create original daily programming and camp activities entirely in Japanese, including language instruction, dance, cultural activities, and educational presentations"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"japanese"
			]
		}
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	"education":
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		{
			"institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"gpa": "3.67",
			"courses":
			[
				"Coursework in Psychology, Statistics, and Linguistics departments",
				"Research assistantships for the Psychology and Engineering Technology departments",
				"Degree focus in psycholinguistics",
				"Masters thesis on emotional word processing"
			],
			"startDate": "2018-01",
			"endDate": "2019-12",
			"area": "Experimental Psychology",
			"studyType": "Graduate",
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"institution": "Colgate University",
			"gpa": "3.47",
			"courses":
			[
				"Double major in Japanese and Psychology with a cognitive linguistics focus",
				"Undergraduate theses examining integration of visual cues into novel phoneme reproduction",
				"Awarded a competitive research grant for translation and synthesis of scientific literature in English and Japanese",
				"Selected for the Benton Scholar Program, focusing on global leadership, entrepreneurship, and community leadership at Colgate"
			],
			"startDate": "2013-08",
			"endDate": "2017-05",
			"area": "Japanese & Psychology",
			"studyType": "Undergraduate",
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"institution": "Kyoto Japanese Language School",
			"gpa": "",
			"courses":
			[
				"Studied language, culture, literature, film, and theater",
				"Expanded cultural understanding and competence through internships",
				"Conservation volunteer work in the Bonin Islands"
			],
			"startDate": "2014-08",
			"endDate": "2014-12",
			"area": "Japanese",
			"studyType": "Semester-long Language Study",
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		}
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		{
			"name": "Programming Languages, Tools, & Platforms",
			"level": "",
			"keywords":
			[
				"R",
				"Python",
				"Ruby",
				"SQL",
				"Golang",
				"NoSql Databases",
				"Vector Databases",
				"Julia",
				"MATLAB",
				"SAS",
				"Microsoft VBA",
				"Google AppsScript",
				"Git",
				"Shell",
				"Linux/Unix",
				"Windows",
				"Google Cloud Platform"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"name": "Data Analysis & Statistical Techniques",
			"level": "",
			"keywords":
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				"Data manipulation",
				"Data tidying",
				"NLP (sentiment analysis, topic modeling, embedding)",
				"Feature engineering",
				"Regresison (linear, logistic, polynomial)",
				"Mixed linear modeling",
				"Structural equation modeling",
				"(M)AN(C)OVA",
				"Unsupervised & supervised classification",
				"Principal component analysis & dimensionality reduction"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
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		{
			"name": "Data & Statistics Software",
			"level": "",
			"keywords":
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				"SPSS",
				"Tableau",
				"Excel",
				"Microsoft Access",
				"Google Data Studio",
				"KNIME",
				"JASP",
				"jamovi",
				"RStudio",
				"Spyder",
				"MiniTab",
				"Amazon MTurk",
				"Qualtrics",
				"MongoDB",
				"Power BI",
				"Looker",
				"BigQuery"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"name": "Research Skills",
			"level": "",
			"keywords":
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				"Experimental design",
				"Survey design",
				"Data collection",
				"Literature review",
				"Data analysis",
				"Data visualization",
				"Research presentation",
				"Human subjects research",
				"IRB compliance",
				"Scientific writing",
				"Academic writing"
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			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
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		},
		{
			"name": "Language",
			"level": "",
			"keywords":
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				"Language teaching",
				"Translation",
				"Linguistic theory",
				"Cultural & educational activities",
				"Natural Language Processing",
				"Multilingual Research"
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			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"japanese"
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		{
			"organization": "Himi City Port Authority",
			"position": "Fish Market Floor Intern",
			"startDate": "2014-10",
			"endDate": "2014-10",
			"website": "",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Communicate with other fish market floor staff to receive, sort, process, and inspect fish incoming from fishing boats",
				"Maintain market floor flow and operations",
				"Communicate in Japanese with staff and other interns to ensure completion of necessary processing tasks"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"organization": "Ogasawara Marine Center",
			"position": "Sea Turtle Conservation Operations Assistant",
			"startDate": "2014-12",
			"endDate": "2014-12",
			"website": "",
			"summary": "",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Coordinate with conservatory staff to care for sea turtles in various stages of rescue and rehabilitation",
				"Communicate in Japanese with staff and other assistants to conduct conversatory operations"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"japanese"
			]
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		{
			"name": "The value of handwritten notes: A failure to find state-dependent effects when using a laptop to take notes and complete a quiz",
			"publisher": "Teaching of Psychology, 49(1), 7-13",
			"releaseDate": "2020",
			"authors": "Crumb, R. M., Hildebrandt, R., & Sutton, T. M.",
			"website": "http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0098628320979895",
			"summary": "",
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		},
		{
			"name": "Investigating Emotion-label and Emotion-laden Words in a Semantic Satiation Paradigm",
			"publisher": "Poster presented at the Psychonomic Society 2019 Annual Meeting, Montreal, Quebec, Canada",
			"releaseDate": "2019",
			"authors": "Hildebrandt, R., Sutton, T. M.",
			"website": "",
			"summary": "",
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		},
		{
			"name": "State-Dependent Learning and Note-Taking Strategies",
			"publisher": "Poster presented at the APS Annual Convention. Washington, DC, USA",
			"releaseDate": "2019",
			"authors": "Sutton, T. M., Crumb, R., & Hildebrandt, R.",
			"website": "",
			"summary": "",
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		}
	],
	"interests":
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		{
			"name": "Speech Processing (EN & JP)",
			"summary": "",
			"keywords":
			[
				"Speech intelligibility",
				"Phonology",
				"Emotional word characteristics"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"name": "Bilingualism",
			"summary": "",
			"keywords":
			[
				"Language acquisition",
				"L2 phoneme processing"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"name": "Natural Language Processing",
			"summary": "",
			"keywords":
			[
				"Word & sentence embedding",
				"Unsupervised learning",
				"Document classification"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv",
				"data",
				"japanese"
			]
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		{
			"language": "English",
			"level": "Native",
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			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"japanese"
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		{
			"language": "Japanese",
			"level": "CEFR B2",
			"skills": 
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				{"name": "Conversational", "level": "Advanced High"},
				{"name": "Compositional - Spoken", "level": "Advanced Mid"},
				{"name": "Compositional - Written", "level": "Intermediate High"},
				{"name": "Interpretive - Spoken", "level": "Intermediate High"},
				{"name": "Interpretive - Written", "level": "Intermediate Mid"}
			],
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		{
			"title": "Emotion Word Processing in a Satiation Paradigm",
			"institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"type": "Graduate Thesis",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Study investigating how emotion word type and valence impact word processing via semantic satiation",
				"R : Stimulus selection, data analysis & visualization",
				"Qualtrics/SuperLab : Data collection & experiment coding",
				"Presented at Psychonomic Society 2019 Meeting, Montreal"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Detection & Perception of Emotional Faces",
			"institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"type": "Graduate Research Assistantship",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Research examining the categorization, detection, and rating of emotional faces as compared to other images",
				"R : Stimulus selection",
				"Python/PsychoPy : Experiment coding"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Content Retention & Note Taking Style",
			"institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"type": "Graduate Research Assistantship",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Study looking at how note taking mode (laptop or hand-written) impacts retention of different kinds of information in an educational setting",
				"Presented at APS 2019, Washington DC",
				"Published: Crumb, R., Hildebrandt, R. & Sutton, T. M. (2019). The value of handwritten notes: A failure to find state-dependent effects when using a laptop to take notes and complete a quiz."
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Speech Intelligibility Testing for Novel Noise Reduction Algorithm",
			"institution": "Rochester Institute of Technology",
			"type": "Graduate Researcher Position",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Project assessing noise reduction algorithms for use in microphones used by first responders",
				"Praat/R : Stimulus preparation, data coding",
				"MTurk : Experiment coding, data collection"
			],
			"tags":
			[
				"full",
				"cv"
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Integration of Visual Cues When Reproducing Novel L2 Phonemes",
			"institution": "Colgate University",
			"type": "Undergraduate Thesis",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Assessing how visual cues impact how accurately English speakers reproduce Japanese long vowels and geminate consonants"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"japanese"
			]
		},
		{
			"title": "Synthesis of English & Japanese Research on the McGurk Effect",
			"institution": "Colgate University",
			"type": "Independent Research Grant",
			"highlights":
			[
				"Translating and synthesizing English and Japanese scientific literature for use in my thesis study through a student research grant awarded by Colgate University"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"japanese"
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			"category": "Data Science & Statistics",
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				"Natural Language Processing Specialization",
				"Feature Selection for Machine Learning",
				"Deep Learning A-Z: Hands-On Artificial Neural Networks",
				"Causal Data Science with Directed Acyclic Graphs",
				"Bayesian Statistics",
				"Graph Theory"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"category": "Google Cloud Platform",
			"keywords":
			[
				"Creating Business Value with Data and Looker Specialization",
				"Customer Experiences with Contact Center AI - Dialogflow ES & CX Specializations",
				"From Data to Insights with Google Cloud Learning Path",
				"Machine Learning on Google Cloud Learning Path"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
			]
		},
		{
			"category": "Data Science Libraries & Languages",
			"keywords":
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				"TensorFlow Developer Specialization",
				"TensorFlow: Advanced Techniques Specialization",
				"Complete Time Series Analysis Bootcamp in R",
				"Master SQL for Data Science"
			],
			"tags":
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				"full",
				"cv",
				"data"
			]
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			"organization": "Google Cloud",
			"title": "Associate Cloud Engineer",
			"date": "2023-04",
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		{
			"name": "particles",
			"description": "Contextual particle frequency in written Japanese, taking a swing at the age old question of は vs が",
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				"Report",
				"Python",
				"Japanese",
				"NLP"
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				"Psycholinguistics",
				"Study"
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				"japanese"
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		{
			"name": "aozora_corpus",
			"description": "A compilation of Japanese texts pulled from 青空文庫",
			"highlights":
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			"keywords":
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				"Corpus",
				"R",
				"Japanese",
				"Literature"
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