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Michael Kinnen

Michael Kinnen

Associate Professor - Finance & AI

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Anaheim Hills, Usa
$60.00/hrEntry LevelInternal Proprietary Tooling

Key Skills

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Internal/Proprietary Tooling

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Top Label Types

Classification
Prompt Response Writing SFT
Question Answering
Text Generation
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Freelancer Overview

Although I have not worked in a formal “data labeling” role, I bring extensive, hands-on experience developing, evaluating, and refining AI outputs at scale through my work as a business school professor and AI pedagogy researcher. Over the past two years, I have designed hundreds of structured prompts, built evaluation rubrics for AI-generated content, and iteratively trained AI systems to produce higher-quality, domain-specific outputs in finance, analytics, writing, and decision-making contexts. This work mirrors core data training functions: defining labeling criteria, assessing output quality, identifying edge cases, improving consistency, and documenting patterns of model strengths and failure modes. I regularly create gold-standard exemplars for students and faculty, compare AI outputs against those benchmarks, and provide systematic feedback to improve accuracy, reasoning, and alignment with task objectives. What differentiates me is my combination of subject-matter expertise (corporate finance, data analytics, and decision intelligence), rigorous evaluation design, and high-volume human-in-the-loop AI workflows. I have led faculty trainings on prompt engineering, built taxonomies for categorizing AI outputs, and conducted research on AI performance in educational and professional tasks. My work requires precision in applying labeling criteria, maintaining consistency across large output sets, and explaining judgments clearly—skills directly transferable to training data annotation and quality assurance. In short, I am not new to AI training; I have been performing its core cognitive tasks—structured evaluation, error analysis, and iterative model improvement—in a research-driven, production environment.

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Education

G

George Fox University

Doctor of Business Administration, Accounting

Doctor of Business Administration
2017 - 2022
U

University of California, Irvine

Master of Business Administration, Finance

Master of Business Administration
2000 - 2002

Work History

C

Concordia University Irvine

Associate Professor of Finance

Irvine
2024 - Present
M

MindStorm Group

Managing Director

Irvine
2007 - Present