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Jen Gillaspie

Project Coordinator

€196/day
Cedar Rapids, US
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Jen

  • English

    Native or bilingual

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • Labelbox
    Project Coordinator
    DIGITAL AND IT
    July 2025 - October 2025 (3 months)
    • Managed data labeling and generation projects from initiation to completion, ensuring the highest quality.
    • Assigned responsibilities to team members to ensure the best resource use and tracked project milestones and deliverables.
    • Directly managed and led the large community of contractors, acting as an advocate for both the company and the independent contractor.
    • Delivered the highest quality standard in the industry and provided training to ensure accuracy across the board.
    • Facilitated cross-functional collaboration and communicated wins and challenges with suggestions for improvement.
  • Appen AI, Inc.
    Senior LLM Specialist & Onboarding Lead
    DIGITAL AND IT
    May 2018 - May 2025 (7 years)
    • Led LLM projects requiring human feedback, including red teaming, preference ranking, prompt evaluation, and multimodal testing.
    • Annotated and prepared datasets, fine-tuned over 15,000 units for large language model training while adhering to safety, ethics, and instruction alignment.
    • Crafted comprehensive project guidelines and created golden annotated datasets that elevated labeling and model evaluation accuracy across teams.
    • Facilitated onboarding and training for over 105 new LLM specialists over 3 months, authoring training materials and best practice documentation.
    • Conducted direct QA and feedback cycles to improve model performance and annotator alignment, receiving an award for "human-centered leadership and high performance."
  • Freelance/Self-Employment
    AI Trainer/Data Annotator/QA/Writer
    DIGITAL AND IT
    June 2015 - May 2024 (8 years and 11 months)
    • Executed LLM fine-tuning projects in supervised and unsupervised training pipelines for prompt-response datasets.
    • Consistently selected to work on urgent Generative AI pilots, provide detailed feedback documentation, and maintain flexibility with changing client guidelines.
    • Evaluated AI-generated content for safety, accuracy, toxicity, helpfulness, appropriateness, tone, and style.
    • Performed quality assurance reviews across crowd annotation teams to ensure 100% data integrity.
    • Supported diverse AI tasks, including image labeling, transcription, speech/video-to-text, prompt creation, and social media platform testing.
    • Created cleverly worded prompts to assess model safety via jailbreaking techniques.

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Education

  • LLM & Model Training
    LLM & Model Training
  • Quality & Safety
    Quality & Safety

Categories

  • Other