I have Ph.D. in Linguistics from Indiana University. My specialization is in Arabic phonetics and phonology. I have published more than 20 articles in referred journals alone and with colleagues in this field. I have 13 years experience in the field of lexicon and corpus development. I worked in the fields of text analytics, voice recognition, corpus development, and information extraction. I manage data, and I have hired, trained, and managed linguists, and native speakers of more than 30 languages to do various tasks such as annotation, vocalization (Arabic script languages), part of speech tagging, translation, transcription, lexicon development, regular expressions development, grammar creation, etc. I have done extensive manual quality assurance on various products, wrote test plans, found and reported bugs following scrum methodology. I have also working experience with Middle Eastern languages: Dari, Farsi, Pashto, and Urdu. Finally, I am a Certified ScrumMaster, and currently I'm working on earning my PMP, and Python certificates. 

Currently looking for a job either as a linguist, or project manager in the industry, government, higher education setting.

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