Pluralsight

I continued my ed tech journey by joining Pluralsight, while also having the opportunity to return to machine-learning-adjacent work I'd first encountered at LexisNexis and as a Graduate Assistant at FAU. I was part of the Vocabulary, Taxonomy and Ontology team that established the connection between the semantic framework built by the team's taxonomist and the machine learning algorithms refined by data scientists, the kind of work that's become more critical as generative AI has made machine-readable knowledge a necessity.

I rewrote the SPARQL queries responsible for syncing the ontology to our internal database so that it completed in seconds instead of five minutes. I also built visibility into education content as it moved through development stages, which enabled a 41% reduction in manual tagging.

I also continued to be an advocate for accessibility, joining the Accessibility Guild. I ran screen reader and WAVE demos, and put that advocacy into practice by reducing accessibility issues in the tagging application by half. I also organized a cross-team Distributed Work Pilot, developing guidance for asynchronous communication in a globally distributed workforce.