FRANK RALPH
805-***-**** **********@****.*** LinkedIn
Professional Summary
Editor and content specialist with experience in localization, higher education, and ghostwriting. Skilled in refining complex material, including AI-generated text, and improving clarity, consistency, and narrative flow across long-form and conversational content. Skills
Editing • Style Guides (MLA, APA, Chicago) • Ghostwriting • Localization • LLM Evaluation • Prompt Engineering • AI Content Editing • Reasoning Analysis • System Prompt Design EXPERIENCE
Mercor - AI Model Training & Evaluation Contractor September 2025 - Present Writer & Editor (AI Content)
● Author multi-turn prompt/response conversations used to evaluate large language model reasoning, instruction-following, and context retention.
● Design response scaffolds and system prompts to test ambiguity handling, memory recall, topic resets, and format editing across varied user scenarios.
● Identify reasoning failures in model outputs and revise scaffolding or responses to correct ambiguity resolution, constraint violations, and context errors.
● Produce 1–2 high-complexity conversation tasks daily (3–5 hours each), maintaining quality scores above 80% and typically above 90%.
● Produce supervised fine-tuning conversations used to improve model instruction-following and reasoning, with roughly 50% accepted without edits. English Language Audio Model Trainer
● Evaluated 1,000+ generative audio and video outputs for clarity, tone, safety, and conversational quality to improve large language model performance.
● Assessed AI chatbot responses against benchmark models, providing structured editorial feedback to improve accuracy, coherence, and user experience.
● Collaborated with internal reviewers to standardize scoring criteria and maintain consistent evaluation standards.
English Editor, Scripting April 2021 - April 2023
Deluxe Entertainment / Burbank, CA
● Created, edited, and proofed 30+ page localization documents from Disney, Warner Bros, and Universal, ensuring linguistic accuracy, stylistic consistency, and localization quality while meeting deadlines as tight as 3 hours.
● Developed 25+ page Creative Letters for Disney and Fox projects, holding client meetings to understand their vision and executing up to 3 revisions based on feedback. Worked independently over 1-3 days, ensuring on-time delivery of materials.
● Produced and edited Dialogue Lists, Localization Lists, and Spotting Lists for films and television series, accurately timing dialogue, metadata tagging, and annotating English phrases to support translators and dubbing teams.
● Applied studio localization standards and editorial judgment to maintain clarity, tone, and cultural appropriateness across dialogue-driven media. Writing Tutor and Workshop Leader November 2015 - October 2023 Moorpark College / Moorpark, CA
● Designed and delivered engaging workshops for University of California transfer essays to hundreds of students, guiding them through all stages of the writing process over 4 months each year, helping many students successfully transfer to top universities like UC Berkeley and UCLA.
● Implemented grammatical, content, and structural changes to refine 4-15 page essays and ensure they conveyed the desired message and information in the best way possible.
● Edited thousands of academic, creative, and technical papers to improve clarity, argument structure, and stylistic consistency, helping these students improve their grades significantly. Ghostwriter and Editor August 2016 - December 2019 NEXT GIRL: Based on a True Story / New England
● Wrote and edited a 317-page memoir of a woman who fell in love with a prominent NYC doctor - who was also a murderous psychopath.
● Developed a 50-page outline, translating over 20 hours of interviews and hundreds of pages of legal documents and source materials into clear narrative prose.
● Wrote three drafts, refining clarity, pacing, story structure, and thematic cohesion while preserving the author’s voice.
EDUCATION
University of California, Los Angeles - B.A. in English, Minor in Film