Jess C.

Consultant

United States9 yrs 5 mos experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in high-stakes language analysis.
Developed tech to protect students from harm.
Advocate for digital safety and child protection.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a SaaS expert specializing in forensic linguistics and digital safety solutions.

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Skills

Core Skills

Analytical SkillsNatural Language Processing (nlp)Curriculum DevelopmentTeachingForensic AnalysisData AnalysisData ModelingWritingTutoring

Other Skills

Applied LinguisticsLarge Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)Statistical Data AnalysisCritical ThinkingEditingOffice AdministrationProject ManagementMicrosoft OutlookMicrosoft OfficeMicrosoft WordPublic SpeakingClassroomCustomer ServiceTime Management

About

I specialize in high-stakes language analysis— from emergency calls and suicide notes, to manifestos and journals of mass shooters, and my latest research hyper-fixation is grooming language — both in online sexual predation cases, as well as fraud/scams. Naturally, somewhere along the way, I’ve become quite passionate about protecting children and families from physical and online harms, and I find it fulfilling to to use my platform to help others mitigate risk. My work centers on: 1. Identifying linguistic patterns and developing tech that flags troubling content. 2. Improving and refining existing public safety processes. 3. Serving as a public resource on digital safety for parents, caregivers, and educators. 🪷🪷🪷

Experience

9 yrs 5 mos

Total Experience

2 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 mos

Current Experience

Securethevillage

Advisory Board Member

Sep 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Volunteer

Develop and maintain privacy- and security-focused RAG chatbot.
Collaborate with the FightCybercrime organization to produce and distribute prevention and recovery materials for victims of scam/fraud.
Create educational materials for family digital safety.

University of vermont

Guest Lecturer

Jan 2025 – May 2025 · 4 mos

Designed and taught a semester-long curriculum for Intro to Forensic Linguistics,
Covered diverse topics including police interrogations, authorship analysis, authorship synthesis, corpus analysis, discourse analysis, and analyzing language crimes.

Navigate360

2 roles

Sr. Analytical Linguist

Promoted

Apr 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo · Burlington, Vermont Area

Drive psycholinguistic and tactical research to build tech that protects students against school shootings, suicides, sexual violence, bullying, hate speech, child abuse, and other forms of harm.
Architect and maintain a comprehensive linguistic library of 2.5billion harm and mental health indicators, serving as a critical layer of protection within digital safety platforms used by schools.
Design annotation guidelines and quality review processes that boosted model accuracy to 93%, directly improving the reliability of harm detection for at-risk students.
Translate linguistic insights and behavioral trends into scalable safety tools that help schools identify early warning signs and intervene before tragedies occur.
Lead AI-driven conversation design for a custom-built chatbot to support principals, counselors, security directors, and teachers.

Analytical SkillsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Forensic AnalysisData Analysis

Analytical Linguist

Mar 2019 – Present · 7 yrs 2 mos · Burlington, Vermont Area

Replaced an inherited bag-of-words system with a linguistically-grounded framework integrating syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, significantly improving detection performance and overall user experience.
Achieved a remarkable 1000% increase in search queries within the first 9 months and exponentially increased that volume within the subsequent 3 years. (1000 variants to start— 2.5 billion after 3 years)
Reduced false positives by 35% during this time, significantly improving search accuracy and reliability.

Analytical SkillsNatural Language Processing (NLP)Applied LinguisticsLarge Language Models (LLM)Python (Programming Language)

Hofstra university

2 roles

Data Manager - Montana ACLU

Jan 2017 – Aug 2017 · 7 mos · Hempstead, New York, United States

Managed data collection and curation for a study commissioned by the Montana ACLU, investigating whether indigenous populations were disproportionately denied parole due to apology patterns.
Supervised a team of coders, developed and maintained legal and demographic databases, and resolved coding challenges, utilizing SPSS for quantitative modeling.
Awarded Forensic Linguistics Grant.

Data ModelingData AnalysisStatistical Data Analysis

Associate Forensic Linguist - Innocence Project

Oct 2016 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos · Hempstead, New York, United States

As part of a team of lawyers and forensic linguists, I contributed to two death row exoneration cases for the Innocence Project.
We conducted thorough analyses of police interrogations, synthesized our findings, and co-authored the expert witness reports used in court proceedings.

Analytical SkillsForensic AnalysisWriting

Maple leaf educational systems

ESL Instructor

Aug 2014 – May 2015 · 9 mos · Hubei, China

Taught 8th grade science in English to students in China, designing and delivering original curriculum tailored to an international learning environment.

TeachingCritical ThinkingCurriculum Development

University of vermont

Writing Tutor

Oct 2011 – May 2014 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Burlington, VT

I worked one-on-one with students across various disciplines (science, business, humanities) to build writing and literacy skills. I also developed subject-specific writing resources in conjunction with Linguistics faculty, as well as facilitated group-based English speaking workshops for ESL learners.
Aside from my Linguistics education, this was the most formative aspect of my undergraduate career.

EditingWritingTutoring