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James Ferris

Technical Project Manager

USA flagMinneapolis, Usa
$40.00/hrIntermediateOtherMercorMicro1

Key Skills

Software

Other
MercorMercor
Micro1

Top Subject Matter

E-commerce
Finance
Business

Top Data Types

ImageImage
TextText
VideoVideo

Top Task Types

ClassificationClassification
Text GenerationText Generation
RLHFRLHF
TranscriptionTranscription
Prompt + Response Writing (SFT)Prompt + Response Writing (SFT)
Evaluation/RatingEvaluation/Rating
Object DetectionObject Detection
Question AnsweringQuestion Answering
Text SummarizationText Summarization
Fine-tuningFine-tuning

Freelancer Overview

I have direct experience inside LLM training pipelines as a Senior Reviewer on a multimodal AI training project through Outlier, where I was responsible for evaluating model outputs across text and image inputs, identifying failure modes, and maintaining quality standards across the review team. This role gave me hands-on familiarity with the full feedback loop - from assessing individual outputs to helping calibrate consistency at a team level. Beyond my AI training work, I bring a strong generalist foundation from my background in business, finance, and founding a science-forward DTC supplement company.

IntermediateEnglish

Labeling Experience

Senior Reviewer

ImageRLHF
Served as a Senior Reviewer on a multimodal RLHF project through Outlier, evaluating AI-generated outputs across image and text inputs for accuracy, reasoning quality, and adherence to task guidelines. Responsibilities included identifying model failure modes such as hallucination and misalignment, rating and ranking responses to inform model improvement, and maintaining consistent quality standards across a generalist range of subject matter.

Served as a Senior Reviewer on a multimodal RLHF project through Outlier, evaluating AI-generated outputs across image and text inputs for accuracy, reasoning quality, and adherence to task guidelines. Responsibilities included identifying model failure modes such as hallucination and misalignment, rating and ranking responses to inform model improvement, and maintaining consistent quality standards across a generalist range of subject matter.

2025 - 2025

Education

U

University of Washington

Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration, Finance

Bachelor of Arts
Not specified
U

University of Glasgow

Master of Arts, Philosophy

Master of Arts
Not specified

Work History

X

XPath Media

Technical Project Manager

Minneapolis
2024 - Present
F

Fortis Capital Management

Trading and Client Services Specialist

Bellevue
2022 - 2023