Christopher Simpson Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON

• Editing transcripts, memoirs, essays, web content, white papers, marketing materials and instruction manuals
• Writing web content, marketing materials, instruction manuals and software programs
• Transcribing audio and video interviews and focus groups
• Researching, fact-checking and proofreading
• Clients include: Transcript Cosmos, QwikLink, ThinkBalm, Ability Virtual Expo, ReactionGrid, Command Data, and DeBeers

Gull Lake, SK

• Editing a weekly community newspaper with an eye to improving layout, tightening article lengths and styles, which resulted in significantly increased readership
• Reporting on news and events of interest to Southwest Saskatchewan
• Feature writing and photography Accomplishments
• Winner of the Saskatchewan Weekly Newspaper Association's Better Newspapers 2013 Salute To Veterans Award

Greater Toronto And Hamilton Area, Ontario, Canada

• In-class note-taking for deaf and hard of hearing students
• Live transcription of class lectures
• Exacting, high-pressure work requiring fast and accurate typing and live-transcription skills

Toronto, ON

• Seven years teaching analytical and business writing in one of Toronto’s top colleges
• Researching, writing and delivering innovative, comprehensive, and intellectually stimulating lectures on the English language, essay writing, and business communications
• Engaging a diversity of students to develop their own writing and research skills
• Evaluating essays, tests, research assignments, and student progress and achievement

St. Catharines, ON

• Writing editorials highlighting events in the Niagara region
• Community Editorial Board member

Second Life

• Regular topics included:
• Virtual world activities
• Analysis of marketing potential
• Use of immersive technology for enterprise

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Designing, developing and promoting a resource portal for Ontario journalists, including a comprehensive database of autumn book releases by Ontario authors, organized by regions as a resource for Ontario newspaper.
• Officially recognized resource by the Press Club of Canada
• Featured in the Canadian Community Newspaper Association’s magazine, The Publisher

Toronto, ON

• Designing, developing and managing the Circa 2000 Project, a curated internet time capsule
• Designing, editing and writing content for the online magazine featuring articles on internet culture, technological advances and AI experiments

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Entering and editing copy and text ads
• Ensuring accuracy
• Beta-testing new publication program

Toronto, ON

• Co-founder of a successful crossover Celtic cultural journal for academics and the general public
• Planning issues, assigning stories, writing articles, attending meetings and events, and overseeing production, circulation, advertising and promotions
• Writing editorials and features
• Attending the yearly Canadian Booksellers Association Trade Show to assess the season’s new Celtic book releases and interview internationally renowned authors such as Maeve Binchy and Ian Rankin

Toronto, ON

• Writing feature articles for a popular and hip magazine covering Queen Street culture from the Beaches to Roncesvalles with regular columns on “Bookstores on Queen,” “Theatre on Queen,” and “Queen Street History” along.
• Covering numerous musicians and artists based along Queen, including Milton Jewell and Dorothy Cameron
• Writing seasonally relevant features with community relevance

Toronto, ON

• Assigning and editing articles, covering news events, and writing features and fillers
• Launching and writing “Ad Nauseam,” an advertising review that continued in other publications and was referred to by such leading advertising gurus as Chuck Nyren and Bob Hoffman
• Mentoring under the late Rod Goodman, news editor and ombudsman of the Toronto Star, and the late Janice Hayes, head news copy editor of The Globe and Mail

Celtic Studies

Activities and Societies: Celtic Society, Celtic Underground

Ba, English, Cinema, Religion, Linguistics

Certificate, Journalism

Certificate, Commercial Art

Education record