Andrew Herington

Data Science Program Manager at Outreach

Andrew Herington has a diverse work experience spanning over several decades. Andrew began their career as a Freelance Desktop Publisher in 1992, working with multiple individuals and small businesses to meet their desktop publishing needs. From 1995 to 1997, they served as a Desktop Publisher at Kinko's. In 2000, they worked as a Desktop and Network Support professional at Think New Ideas.

From 2003 to 2007, Andrew was an Account Manager at Reischling Press Inc, a high-tech digital printing firm. Andrew managed partnerships with internet-based social expression and personal publishing services.

In 2007, Andrew became the Director of Special Projects at Impart Media Group, where they handled interdepartmental logistics and communication and nurtured new business and product opportunities in the digital signage network industry.

Andrew joined Google in 2010 as a GIS Analyst CE/QC, responsible for creating navigation systems using lane mapping tools and ensuring the accuracy of lane data for optimal navigation. From 2011 to 2016, they worked at Microsoft as an SEO/Taxonomy Specialist, improving search engine accuracy and managing taxonomy for Bing and Windows Phone.

Andrew then transitioned to contract work at Robert Half from 2017 to 2019 before joining Outreach in 2019. At Outreach, they held multiple roles, starting as a Contract Data Annotator and gradually progressing to more senior positions. As a Data Science Program Manager, they supported five data science teams and managed the Manager of Annotation Services. Andrew facilitated communication between leadership and data science teams and ensured the smooth progress of projects.

Throughout their work experience, Andrew has developed strong skills in annotation techniques, methodologies, workflows, tools, and systems. Andrew has leveraged this knowledge to design new annotation tasks and create processes, workflows, and guidelines to support team-level annotation efforts.

Andrew Herington's education history begins in 1981 when they attended Capital High School and obtained their High School Diploma in 1985. In 1993, they enrolled at The Evergreen State College for a period of one year, but it is not specified whether they obtained a degree or field of study during this time.

Later, in 2002, Andrew attended Seattle Central College and completed a Certification in Database Development & Administration, which lasted until 2003. This certification was obtained from the same institution.

In addition to their formal education, Andrew also holds a certification as a Scrum Master Certified (SMC) from the Scrum Alliance. However, the specific details regarding the month and year of obtaining this certification are not provided.

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Timeline

  • Data Science Program Manager

    November, 2022 - present

  • Data Annotation Manager

    August, 2020

  • Senior Annotator

    November, 2019

  • Contract Data Annotator

    June, 2019