
Freelance - Link Building and Social Media at Stress Limit Design
Montreal, Canada Area

Freelance - Link Building and Social Media at Stress Limit Design
Montreal, Canada Area
Recently started a career in social media/link building/SEO. Those fields are very close to my personal interests. I'm pretty much self-taught and am still learning a great deal. More details on my blog at:
http://www.francisraymond.com
I have acquired eclectic and varied experiences in the work market in the past ten years while being a full-time student. I've spent 2 years working for Joanna Berzowska and her XS Labs at Concordia University. I have acquired very specialized knowledge of electronics and new technologies, and how to integrate them in a soft way to textiles. I have also specialized in digital/online work through my studies at Concordia university. I am more oriented towards fine arts, though I feel comfortable working with social medias and other online mediums.
Fine arts, visual arts, video, editing, sound, electronics, textiles, technologies, creativity, media, online media, production media, web
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 1 month)
Website optimization for 2 different projects
Link building
Social Media
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Website optimization
Link building
Social networking
(Insurance industry)
August 2007 — November 2008 (1 year 4 months)
This work involved providing medical assistance to people travelling outside the country. The department is open 24/7. I was responsible to organise medical visits, manage hospitalisations, authorize medical tests, organise repatriations, determine eligibility to the insurance, interpret the multiple insurances' contracts and apply them, and request medical and billing information. It requires to be fast and efficient, to be able to handle urgent and life-threatening matters calmly and promptly, to be well coordinated and be good at multi-tasking.
(Research industry)
September 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 10 months)
Under the direction of Joanna Berzowska, my work involved working with (micro) electronics and textiles in order to help researching and developing soft circuits/applications/designs.
http://www.xslabs.net
I recently worked on the Alternate Vision Opera (for XS Labs), presented at Usine C from May 1st to May 5th 2007
(Educational Institution; 1001-5000 employees; Higher Education industry)
September 2006 — April 2007 (8 months)
I was responsible to help students enrolled in Design and Computation Art in the execution their projects using sensors, microcontrollers, electronics, programming and textiles. Management of stocks and the facilities was as well under my supervision.
(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
May 2002 — March 2004 (1 year 11 months)
Management of a team of 8 travel agents/counsellors, as well as a travel accessories' shop and a travel agency that caters to backpackers and socially-conscious travellers. I dealt with employees' schedules, problem-solving, cash reconciliation and orders of materials among other things.
B.F.A. , Intermedia - Cyberarts , 2005 — 2008
Minor , Computation Arts , 2004 — 2005
Certificate , Communications - Multimedia , 2003 — 2004
Music, films, television, architecture, video, art, museums, galleries, travels, London, technologies, web art, food, and of course the web.
B.F.A with honours, specialization in Intermedia/Cyberarts