Summary
Patrick Hall is a Business Process Developer with 17 years of technical and operational experience who blends applied IT management with documentary linguistics. Currently in a graduate linguistics program at UCSB, he applies internet technologies, NLP, and Unicode-savvy tools to language documentation projects, including work on Kashaya Pomo and Mixtecan languages. At Applied Medical he focuses on process improvements and systems integration, building on three decades of hands-on IT leadership dating back to running IT for a family business. Fluent in Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese, he bridges computational workflows and field linguistics, enabling practical translation and computer-aided translation solutions for low-resource languages. An uncommon combination of long-term IT stewardship and active linguistic fieldwork gives him a pragmatic, interdisciplinary perspective on tooling for language documentation.
17 years of coding experience
29 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors, Linguistics, Bachelors, Linguistics at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor of Science, Linguistics, Bachelor of Science, Linguistics at UC Berkeley
Master's degree, Linguistics, Master's degree, Linguistics at University of California, Santa Barbara