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Shawn Michael

@shawnmichael

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Bilingual content specialist and editor expert in English–Swahili localization.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek remote roles in localization, AI data labeling, or editorial QA with clear processes, collaborative teams, and opportunities to impact model quality and cultural accuracy.

I am a bilingual content specialist, translator, and copy editor with professional proficiency in English and near-native fluency in Swahili. I deliver high-quality translations, transcriptions, and editorial reviews for technical and social sciences content, ensuring flawless grammar, strict style-guide adherence, and cultural relevance for East African audiences.

I have contributed to AI data and annotation pipelines, performed QA and mathematical verification of training inputs, and supported prompt engineering and conversational model testing. I am methodical, deadline-driven, and experienced in remote collaboration and large-scale dataset evaluations.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Math & QA Analyst / Bilingual Editor

Mindrift

Jan 2025 - Aug 2025 (7 months)

Reviewed and edited English→Swahili training datasets to ensure zero grammatical errors and 100% style-guide adherence; identified and corrected statistical inconsistencies and verified mathematical inputs for model training.

Swahili Editing & QA Remote Collaboration

AI Data Contributor / Linguistic Tester

Outlier

Jan 2022 - Dec 2023 (1 year 11 months)

Tested conversational AI models for Swahili intent and sentiment, performed bilingual labeling and contributed to prompt engineering and large-scale dataset evaluations to improve model training quality.

Swahili Data Labeling Sentiment Analysis Prompt Engineering Dataset Evaluation

AI Data Labeler

Remotasks

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022 (1 year 11 months)

Performed multimodal labeling (video, audio, text) and transcriptions for computer vision and research datasets, maintaining high accuracy in fast-paced annotation workflows and improving task efficiency.

Transcription Quality Assurance Speaker Identification Workflow Optimization

Prompt Engineering & Data Labeling Assistant

Opentrain

Jan 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 11 months)

Created and tested prompts for NLU tasks focusing on intent recognition and text classification, performed sentiment tagging and contributed to early AI model training pipelines.

Prompt Engineering NLU Model Training