Kristin M

Behavior Technician

Apr 2026 - Present • 3 mos

I am a trained ABA behavior technician for Accelerated Behavioral Change, Inc. My job is to go into the homes of children on the autism spectrum and help them learn social and life skills. I implement education plans designed by licensed behavior analysts for each unique client. The goal is to create a bond and use play to teach children life skills like communicating, sharing, doing chores, and self care.

AI Trainer

Jan 2025 - Present • 1 yr 6 mos

I evaluate, edit, fact check, and create rubrics for AI model responses from casual conversation to deep research to create training data on the DataAnnotation anonymized job board. A large portion of my job is research analysis in a variety of fields. While I'm not an expert in the anatomy of a whale fin or troubleshooting well digging with a wet drill, for example, I can assess a model's accuracy. Occasionally, I'll also write an ideal response with no spelling, grammatical, or factual errors. One of the biggest challenges is quantifying qualitative measures. For example, how do you teach a computer why one poem is better than another or what constitutes an appropriate tone for an emotional prompt? My experience tutoring 1:1 English as a Second Language (ESL) conversation helps here, because I spent over a decade explaining culture, idioms, and jokes to people who were unfamiliar with the American culture in which I grew up. I can explain complicated, abstract concepts in simple, concrete terms.

Patent Editor

Sep 2020 - Aug 2021 • 11 mos

I edited biotech patent applications for a Silicon Valley incubator, InCube. I leveraged my two years of pre-medical school, knowledge from growing up in a family of engineers, and a lifetime of straight As in writing courses to polish the applications. Of course, the supervising patent attorney checked my work, but she found it more worth her time and budget to run applications through me than to take the first pass herself. Legal writing: I had to make sure there was absolutely no ambiguity and that the defined terms at the end were used correctly throughout the application. This often involved rewriting entire sections, adding definitions, correcting inappropriate usage of terms like "should" and "may," and writing new claims to encompass technologies that were discussed but not claimed. Facts and figures: I cross checked every figure with its corresponding descriptions and numbered references to make sure they lined up. I researched the anatomy, physiology, and underlying technologies involved in each particular application. Occasionally, I had to draw new figures to accurately represent all aspects of the technology that were supposed to be visible in a figure. It was clear that the person who wrote the patents didn't understand the technologies nearly as well as the supervising attorney and I did.