Karilyn Kempton

Freelance tech writer and editor for hire!

EMPLOYMENT

TECHVIBES MEDIA INC.
Writer
http://techvibes.com

CENTURY 21 CANADA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP/CENTUM FINANCIAL GROUP INC.
Communications Coordinator
06/2008-11/2008
-writing and editing advertising and communications copy, & internal/network communications

ZEEP MOBILE
Technical Writer & Director of Business Development
02/2008-present
-writing and editing website content
-soliciting SMS publishers and advertisers

BLINK WEB DESIGNS
Technical Writer/Editor
03/2008-present

CENTURY 21 CANADA LIMITED PARTNERSHIP/CENTUM FINANCIAL GROUP INC.
Legal Services
09/2007-06/2008
-wrote franchise contracts and addenda for Century 21 and Centum franchisees
-Enforced franchisee compliance re: trademark infringement, signage, recruitment and PR

SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY
Teaching Assistant
09/2006-05/2007
-Taught English 104: Biographies of Nature and English 101W: Prize-Winning Fiction

STATISTICS CANADA: CENSUS 2006
Administrative Coordinator to Field Operations Supervisor
04/2006-08/2006

HMV CANADA
Key Holder/Receiver/Buyer
10/2000-08/2006

LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY ARGUS
Senior News Editor
09/2002-05/2004

STUDENT GOVERNMENT AND VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
-Founding Director and Communications Coordinator of the Graduate Student Society at Simon Fraser University
-Chair of the Graduate Student Society Executive Committee
-Graduate Issues Committee representative for the English Graduate Caucus
-Media Liaison Officer of the Graduate Issues Committee Grad Autonomy Committee
-Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities Graduate Studies Committee
-Teaching and Support Staff Union at SFU
-Conference Committee
-Simon Fraser University: “Sexing the Text: Gendered Works and Working Gender,” November 3-4, 2006.
-Simon Fraser University: “Games We Play: Strategies of the Everyday,” May 9-10, 2008.

EDUCATION
Master of Arts— English Literature
09/2006-08/2007
Simon Fraser University, Burnaby BC
Thesis: “‘So I must imagine the unimaginable’: Trickster Discourse in the Novels of Hiromi Goto”
-held a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Master’s Graduate Scholarship
Honours Bachelor of Arts—English & History
09/2002-05/2006
Lakehead University, Thunder Bay ON

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