Ian Scott
AI Data Trainer | LLM Evaluator | Data Annotation & QA Specialist
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Highly detail-oriented AI Data Trainer and LLM Evaluator with hands-on experience in data annotation, model response evaluation, prompt review, transcription quality assurance, search relevance rating, content moderation, and multilingual AI review. Skilled at judging AI-generated outputs for factual accuracy, clarity, helpfulness, safety, tone, user intent alignment, and instruction-following. California-based professional with a strong academic foundation in information systems, computer information systems, analytical research, and digital communication.
Experience
AI Data Trainer & LLM Evaluator - Outlier AI - Remote
(2022-01)
- Evaluate AI-generated responses for accuracy, helpfulness, clarity, tone, safety, completeness, and instruction-following.
- Compare multiple model outputs and select the stronger response using detailed human-feedback rubrics.
- Review prompts, user intent, task constraints, hallucinations, weak reasoning, vague answers, and policy issues.
- Provide precise feedback that helps improve generative AI quality, reliability, and user alignment.
Lead Data Annotator & AI Quality Reviewer - Remotasks / Scale AI - Remote
(2020-01)
- Annotate and review text, image, audio, and search-related datasets for machine learning and AI training projects.
- Evaluate search queries, user intent, ranking relevance, and result usefulness for AI-powered search systems.
- Perform QA on completed annotations to identify labeling errors, unclear judgments, and guideline inconsistencies.
- Support multilingual review tasks involving English, French, Japanese, and German content.
Senior AI-Assisted Transcription QA Specialist - Verbit.ai - Remote
(2017-08)
- Review and correct AI-generated legal and professional transcripts for accuracy, formatting, grammar, speaker identification, and contextual clarity.
- Use human quality control to improve machine-generated speech-to-text output across sensitive legal, medical, and professional recordings.
- Research legal, medical, and technical terminology to ensure final outputs are accurate and professionally usable.
- Identify recurring transcription model errors, unclear audio issues, and formatting problems that affect final data quality.
Medical Market Research Transcription Specialist - Cadence Translate - Remote
(2019-03)
- Transcribe healthcare interviews, expert consultations, clinical research discussions, and medical market research recordings.
- Verify drug names, procedures, conditions, medical terminology, and healthcare references through careful research.
- Handle confidential healthcare-related content with professional care and privacy awareness.
Legal & Medical Data Quality Specialist - Veritext Legal Solutions - Remote
(2017-03 - 2025-10)
- Prepared and reviewed high-accuracy legal transcripts for litigation, depositions, hearings, civil matters, and government-related proceedings.
- Verified complex legal, medical, and technical terminology through independent research and contextual review.
- Applied strict formatting, confidentiality, and quality standards across sensitive documentation.
Transcription & Documentation QA Specialist - Esquire Deposition Solutions - Remote
(2020-01 - 2024-12)
- Managed complex deposition transcription projects involving legal, medical, technical, and expert witness testimony.
- Edited transcripts for grammar, punctuation, legal formatting, timestamps, speaker labels, and client-specific style requirements.
- Reviewed unclear audio, overlapping speech, and specialized terminology with strong attention to detail.
Education
Master of Science - Information Systems - University of Southern California (2017-01 - 2019-01)
Bachelor of Science - Computer Information Systems - California State University, Los Angeles (2013-01 - 2017-01)
High School Diploma - Fairfax High School (2013-01)