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jared baker

@jaredbaker

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Multimodal AI trainer and QA specialist focused on narrative, audio, and video evaluation.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles applying multimodal evaluation and QA, collaborating with research/product teams to improve model behavior, mentorship opportunities, and impactful, product-focused projects.

I am a multidisciplinary AI trainer and evaluation QA specialist with 6+ years supporting multimodal AI systems, including LLMs, video understanding models, and audio-based dialogue systems. I create gold-standard annotations, apply complex rubrics consistently, and collaborate with research and product teams to improve model behavior in interactive and game-like environments.

I excel at video and audio QA—identifying gestures, facial expressions, tone, pacing, and environmental context—and at assessing narrative consistency, emotional nuance, reasoning quality, and user experience. I have designed scenario-based evaluations, authored QA documentation, and mentored annotators to raise annotation quality and model performance.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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AI Evaluation QA Specialist

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Veloce AI Systems

Apr 2023 - Present (2 years 10 months)

Evaluate LLM, video, and audio AI systems for reasoning quality, factual accuracy, and narrative coherence; create gold-standard annotations and scenario-based evaluation tasks that improved rubric compliance and evaluator calibration.

Audio Evaluation Annotations Gold Standard Narrative Consistency

Multimodal Data Annotation Specialist

DataSight Annotation Group

Jan 2021 - Feb 2023 (2 years 1 month)

Annotated video, audio, and text datasets for VQA, action recognition, and dialogue systems, ensuring high-quality labels for cross-modal retrieval and video-text alignment under shifting guidelines.

Audio Transcription VQAS Video Text Alignment Quality Control Cross Modal Retrieval

Quality Assurance Analyst

BlueArc Tech Solutions

May 2019 - Dec 2020 (1 year 7 months)

Conducted QA for AI-enhanced systems by validating logic flow, dataset integrity (JSON/XML), and identifying edge cases and failure modes to improve downstream user experience.

QA Testing JSON XML Edge Cases

Content Quality Analyst

ZenithZen Inc

Jun 2017 - Feb 2019 (1 year 8 months)

Evaluated and validated training data for AI pipelines, mentored junior annotators, and developed quality rubrics and error-pattern libraries to improve model accuracy and annotator consistency.

Data Validation Mentoring AI Training Data QA Processes Documentation

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

University of North Texas

Bachelor of Science, Information Technology

2011 - 2015

Completed a Bachelor of Science in Information Technology with minors in Software Testing & Quality Assurance and Human-Computer Interaction, focusing on database systems, programming fundamentals, and user-centered narrative systems.