Shannon Ladymon
Assistant Director, WA Jobs Initiative, Data Systems And Reporting
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolShannon Ladymon is a data and program leader who blends 11 years of experience in computational linguistics, education, and equity-focused program management to build technical systems that serve underserved communities. Currently Assistant Director for WA Jobs Initiative Data Systems and Reporting at WSAC, she has led multi-partner grant programs, managed reporting for a nearly $5M workforce grant, and supported partners with technical assistance to improve outcomes. As founder of an ethical AI startup, she developed techniques to reduce gender bias in NLP datasets and has hands-on experience deploying translation pipelines for city government. Her background teaching ESL and supervising afterschool STEM educators informs a practical, human-centered approach to data systems and training. Based in Bellevue, WA, Shannon combines research experience in low-resource MT with program delivery chops to make analytics and tooling more accessible and equitable.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics, Master of Science - MS, Computational Linguistics at University of WashingtonComputer Information Science, Computer Information Science at De Anza CollegeBachelor of Linguistics with a Japanese Emphasis, Bachelor of Linguistics with a Japanese Emphasis at University of California, Santa BarbaraComputer Science, Computer Science at Bellevue CollegeMaster of Teaching English as a Second Language, Master of Teaching English as a Second Language at California State University-Los Angeles
English, Japanese, Spanish, German, French
Github Skills (3)
translation6
localization6
php5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
as1729/random-json-content
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:170 pushes in 3 days
quinnabrvau/Supervised-Learning
Feb 2018 - Oct 2019
Contributions:24 pushes in 1 year 7 months
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