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Welcome to SuperResume (tm)
(Version 1.0r 8/27/87)
A resume composition system
for experienced Software Engineering and MIS Professionals
from LEE JOHNSON INTERNATIONAL
(C)Copyright 1986 by Integrated Resource Search, Inc.
All rights reserved.
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* There is no charge for this service, but we would like to *
* receive a copy of your completed SuperResume'. We hope *
* that you will have us represent you when you consider your*
* next career move, a service entirely paid for by the *
* hiring company. *
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SuperResume (tm) is authorized for use without charge as a
publicly accessible, publicly available system for the
public benefit. All other users of this outline must
purchase copies. Contact:
LEE JOHNSON INTERNATIONAL
The Hearst Bldg., #1125
San Francisco, CA 94103
Voiceline: 415-788-6000
Dataline: 415-546-0119
Fido Mail: 125/612
WHY YOU SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE A CURRENT RESUME
The best time to investigate new opportunities is when you don't have to!
Keeping your career moving upward should be a continuing activity, not
just something you do when you decide (or are forced) to "look around."
The first step in investigating career-advancing opportunities is to
prepare a good resume ....... our SuperResume!
Our experience has shown that the most competitive individuals for a
position are usually the people who are not looking for a job......people
who are happily employed, doing very well, and are so busy that they don't
have time to even look at the classifieds, let alone respond to them.
That's where we come in. We can let you know when we are working on a
search that represents a really outstanding career-advancing opportunity
for you.
Our number one concern is that we never overlook you. If you would like us
to notify you of an exceptional opportunity, we have to know something
about your past accomplishments and your ambitions. The information goes
into a free-form, full-text data base system on our IBM XT, so we will
never overlook you.
AN EXPLANATION OF OUR RESUME PHILOSOPHY
A resume may well be the single most important representation of a
professional's career. Many well qualified candidates never even get to
first base (the interview) because they were screened-out due to an
inadequate resume. Nevertheless, most of people only think about their
resume when they are considering changing jobs. As a result, many
deficient, flawed, and poorly constructed resumes are in circulation today,
and many people's growth is being held back.
Having been in the recruiting business since 1972, I have observed that the
vast majority of resumes do a very poor job of describing the significant
ACCOMPLISHMENTS of a software professional. The reason for this is that
most resumes describe responsibilities rather than ACCOMPLISHMENTS. (It
seems that most people just copy their job descriptions out of their
Company's Job Description Manual!). Just describing your responsibilities
doesn't say whether or not you accomplished them successfully, and the
phenomenal things you did to accomplish those responsibilities. IT'S YOUR
ACCOMPLISHMENTS, AND HOW YOU ACHIEVED THEM, THAT GET YOU INTERVIEWS AND
OFFERS!
By following the SuperResume outline precisely, your resume will be quite
long. (Four or five pages is average.) Do NOT let this bother you! Look
upon what you are giving us as a database of ALL your SIGNIFICANT
accomplishments, from which we can produce a resume tailored to each
specific position for which we present you.
What follows is a questionnaire that encourages you to concentrate on your
ACCOMPLISHMENTS and produce a SuperResume!
**** SEE SAMPLE RESUME AT END OF OUTLINE IF YOU NEED HELP ****
SuperResume Questionnaire
Now let's get started on the BEST RESUME YOU'VE EVER HAD!
Name:
Home Street Address:
Home City, State, Zip:
Home Area Code & Phone:
Office Area Code & Phone:
Type "ACADEMIC EDUCATION", followed by 2 CR's, then type in all degrees,
starting with highest, eg., Ph.D. Computer Science - M.I.T. - Cambridge, MA
- 1973 (GPA 4.0/4.0), followed by 2 CR's between each degree.
(If you want to enter specific courses or an abstract of your dissertation
or thesis, go ahead.)
Type "COMMERCIAL TRAINING", followed by 2 CR's, then type in all company
sponsored courses you have taken, including the length and date.
Type "FOREIGN LANGUAGES", followed by 2 CR's, then each language in which
you are proficient, stating after each language your fluency in speaking,
reading, and writing.
Type "SECURITY CLEARANCE:", followed immediately by type and issue date,
then 2 CR's.
Type "EXPERTISE SUMMARY", followed by 2 CR's.
The following section is divided into "GENERIC PROJECT / INDUSTRY /
DEVELOPMENT AREAS"; "HARDWARE & SYSTEMS SOFTWARE"; and
"LANGUAGES/PACKAGES/TOOLS". In these sections, enter only experience in
which your are currently proficient, due to hands-on involvement.
Type "GENERIC PROJECT/INDUSTRY/DEVELOPMENT AREAS", followed by 2 CR's, then
the GENERIC applications and industries, or internals in which you are
proficient, due to hands-on involvement. If you had supervisory
responsibility, include in "management" the largest number of people
supervised and your largest direct budget responsibility.
Type "HARDWARE & SYSTEMS SOFTWARE" followed by 2 CR's, then those in
which you are proficient, due to hands-on involvement. (Include
Communication & Data Base hardware & software.)
Type "LANGUAGES/PACKAGES/TOOLS" followed by 2 CR's, then those in which you
are proficient, due to hands-on involvement.
Type "POTENTIAL ABILITIES & NON-PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE" followed by 2
CR's, then those in which you would like to be involved with in your next
position, some of which you may have had little or no "paid" experience.
Type "PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT", followed by 2 CR's.
Type below, your MOST RECENT employer and the TOTAL period of employment
(mn/yr - mn/yr), in this format:
"GE SPACE - Sunnyvale, CA 8/83 - 6/85" followed by 2 CR's.
Type below, your current ADMINISTRATIVE title (your company's internal
title) and dates in THIS position; eg.,
"Project Manager (5/83 - 11/84)", followed by 2 CR's.
Type below, a brief description of your group, it's mission, number of
people, and your general, personal responsibilities. (This is the only area
where you talk about your responsibilities and are advised to use the word
"responsible.") If you had supervisory responsibility, include in
"management" the largest number of people supervised and your largest
direct budget responsibility. You can go into detail later in the Major
Accomplishments section that follows.
Type "MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS", followed by 2 CR's.
Start with a project or effort that stands out in your mind as the MOST
significant accomplishment in THIS position. Follow the outline that
follows. You will be given the opportunity to describe FOUR different
major accomplishments in each job title. If there are fewer
accomplishments, simply CR through the remaining accomplishment sections to
the OTHER ACTIVITIES section where you can indicate functions you performed
that were routine or not pertinent to the type of position you desire. Do
NOT use the word RESPONSIBLE, because this section to be accomplishment
oriented, not responsibility oriented.
Start with your FUNCTIONAL (not administrative) title, eg., "As the Chief
Architect and implementor...." or "As a member of a three person
team,......."), and then continue with the specific generic functions you
personally performed, eg., ...."I personally performed the analysis,
general design, program design, etc."
Continue below, a brief technical description, eg., type of application,
hardware, system software, languages, packages, tools, special techniques
or algorithms, etc., that were involved with this particular
accomplishment.
Finally, enter below, the end result or benefit to your employer or user.
This is a very important section because a premium is placed on people who
genuinely understand the nature of the industry they are in and their
contribution to it.
NOTE: IF YOU HAD ADDITIONAL "MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS" IN THE ABOVE POSITION,
DO MORE "MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENT" SECTIONS. (FOUR IS PLENTY).
THEN PROCEED TO "OTHER ACTIVITIES" BELOW FOR THIS POSITION.
Type "OTHER ACTIVITIES:", followed immediately by functions you performed
that were routine or not pertinent to the type of position you desire.
Type "REASON FOR LEAVING:", followed by an objective, non-editorial reason.
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NOTE: REPEAT THE ABOVE ITERATION FOR EACH EMPLOYER GOING BACK THE LAST SIX
OR SEVEN YEARS. FOR EMPLOYERS EARLIER THAN THAT, YOU CAN HAVE A MORE BRIEF
RESUME, AS FOLLOWS.
For the positions that follow, you don't need to go into such detail.
Prior to six or seven years from today, companies are primarily interested
in your rate of advancement, stability, application, and industry
experience.
Type below, your NEXT MOST RECENT employer and the TOTAL period of
employment (mn/yr - mn/yr), in this format: (If have had more than one
position with the above described company, skip this item on SUBSEQUENT
passes, and CR to the next question.)
"GE SPACE - Sunnyvale, CA 8/83 - 6/85" followed by 2 CR's.
Type below, your ADMINISTRATIVE title (your company's internal title) and
dates in THIS position; eg.,
"Project Manager (5/83 - 11/84)", followed by 2 CR's.
Type below, the type of applications or internals you worked on, your
personal responsibilities, and the hardware/software environment.
Type "REASON FOR LEAVING:" followed by an objective, non-editorial reason.
NOTE: REITERATE THE ABOVE BRIEF SECTION FOR EACH EMPLOYER, ALL THE WAY TO
YOUR FIRST EMPLOYER.
UPLOADING NOTE
1. You may use a PC and modem to transmit your completed SuperResume to
us by calling 415-546-0119 (Fido Node 612 in Net 125) any time. Our
system accepts 300 or 1200 Baud, 8 databits, 1 stopbit, no parity.
2. Use XMODEM or other non-ASCII protocol. ASCII protocol usually gives
us some garbage.
3. Please make sure you transmit either ASCII or, preferably,
MultiMate. We do have a WordStar to ASCII conversion program, but
would prefer that you compose the SuperResume' in the "non-document"
mode. PLEASE LIMIT TEXT WIDTH TO 76 CHARACTERS OR LESS.
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A SAMPLE RESUME FOLLOWS ON NEXT PAGES
YOUR NAME:
YOUR STREET ADDRESS:
YOUR CITY, STATE, ZIP:
YOUR HOME PHONE:
YOUR OFFICE PHONE:
EDUCATION: B.A. Math - U.C. Berkeley - 6/75. GPA 3.7/4.0
COMMERCIAL TRAINING:
Whitesmith C and compiler. Mountain View - 1981
Management - How to increase productivity. Sunnyvale - 1979
How to manage people. San Jose - 1980
SUMMARY OF EXPERTISE:
Generic Product/Development Areas:
* Compiler design and implementation on UNIX and VMS systems.
* UNIX kernel enhancements and modifications for real-time systems.
* UNIX device drivers, kernel debugger, system diagnostics, cross
development package, object-file translator, subroutine library,
system-call emulator, test suites, performance measurement, and tuning
design and implementation.
* Real-time, tightly-coupled multiprocessor OS design.
* Real-time graphics application/simulation design and implementation.
Hardware and Operating Systems:
DEC VAX under UNIX and VMS; Motorola 68000/010/020 under UNIX, Macintosh
OS, and real-time operating systems; CCI Power 6, Pyramid, Gould,
Sequent, Alliant, Sun, and supermicros under UNIX; DEC PDP-11 under
RT-11; Xerox Sigma 9 under CP-V; and CDC 6400 under CALIDOSCOPE; Evans
and Sutherland Picture System.
Languages/Tools:
C, Ada, Pascal, FORTRAN, Euclid, Modula-2, and assembler for a number of
machines. YACC, X-Windows, GKS, INGRES, and SQL.
PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT
YOUR CURRENT COMPANY - City, State 6/85 - Present
Sr. Member of the Technical Staff
Designed and implemented a number of compilers for two fourth-generation
Database Manipulation Languages (Embedded SQL and Embedded XXXX), embedded
in seven third-generation languages (Ada, C, Pascal, FORTRAN, COBOL, PL/1,
and BASIC) for the UNIX and VMS operating systems. The compilers generated
code that sent commands and queries to a (possibly remote) XXXXXX backend
and received status, errors, and results from it. The compilers were
implemented in C under UNIX and VMS on a Pyramid 90x, CCI Power 6, and VAX
780s, using the YACC compiler generator.
Major Accomplishments:
* As Architect and implementor, was half of the team that designed the
overall structure of the suite of compilers and implemented, tested,
and documented the XXXXX and XXXX/C and XXXXX/Ada compilers.
Designed, implemented, and tested a symbol table which efficiently
supported all of the above languages as well as Euclid and Modula-2.
Was solely responsible for all phases of the XXXX/Ada, XXXXX and
XXXX/Pascal, XXXXX and XXXX/FORTRAN compilers, including a large
portion of the run-time support library, such as support for cursors
and dynamic queries. Also provided direct customer support for the
Ada compilers until the Technical Support team became proficient in
Ada. As a direct result of our design, the time required to write a
compiler for a DML embedded in a new language dropped from about 6 to
8 months to about 1 to 2 months while dramatically increasing
reliability, allowing the Company to produce the first commercial
embedding of SQL in Ada. All of the compilers are currently-shipped
products.
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* Met with large corporate customers to explore joint projects
involving XXXXXX and provided feasibility analyses of potential
projects, resulting in a high-visibility product currently in
development, and another multi-million dollar deal still in
negotiations.
* Consulted to the UNIX Systems Support Group in performance
measurement and tuning, tools, and network support in a complex
network of several dozen minisuper- and supermini-computers running
UNIX (Alliant FX/8, Pyramid 90x family, VAX family, CCI Power 6,
Sequent, etc) and VMS (almost every member of the VAX family).
Evaluated, benchmarked, and designed system configurations for Amdahl
5860, Sun/3, and VaxStations as internal development machines.
* Member of a team exploring graphical interfaces (eg., X-Windows,
Macintosh windowing, Sun View) to relational DBMSs for workstations
(Sun/3 and VaxStation).
Reason for desiring change: Want more direct responsibility and
leadership for a new product. None available for two years.
YOUR SECOND MOST RECENT EMPLOYER - City, State 1/83 - 6/85
Systems Programmer
Responsible for UNIX OS in embedded circuit board testers. This version
of UNIX was the underlying base of several models of circuit board testers,
including the most successful tester the company had produced. Many of the
custom features added contributed significantly to either the customer's
ease of use or to the performance, reliability, and flexibility of the
tester.
Major Accomplishments:
* Wrote boot PROMs for Motorola MC68000-based computer running a
highly-modified UNIX System III.
* Modified and enhanced the operating system, added custom real-time
system calls, kernel based co-routines, and semaphores.
* Wrote device drivers, a PROM-based kernel debugger and system
diagnostics, and added some 4.2BSD features (e.g., tty process
groups).
* Designed and implemented a cross-development package for a
MC68000-based computer (HP 9826 running a Pascal P-System) using the
Whitesmith C compiler on a DEC PDP-11/70 running UNIX V7, comprised
of an object-file translator, a library of standard UNIX subroutines,
and a UNIX system-call emulator. This package enabled the entire
suite of test development programs to be off-loaded from an expensive
test system to a micro, providing a more cost-efficient overall
package to the customer.
* Member of the ANSI X3J11 Committee to standardize the C programming
language.
Reason for leaving: OS Group disbanded due to purchase of an OS.
YOUR THIRD MOST RECENT EMPLOYER - City, State 1/79 - 1/83
Systems Programmer
As the Chief Architect for the operating system of a real-time
tightly-coupled multiprocessor (Motorola MC68000) laboratory computer for
gas and liquid chromatography, researched existing commercially-available
operating systems and designed an efficient and modular real-time OS. The
project was cancelled before implementation was started.
Major Accomplishment:
* Evaluated C compilers for Motorola 68000s, provided UNIX systems
support for a DEC PDP-11/70 running UNIX V7, investigated GKS, and
wrote software tools.
Reason for leaving: Lack of Company's product orientation, and
opportunity at above employer to produce a product.
YOUR FOURTH MOST RECENT EMPLOYER - City, State 6/75 - 1/79
Member of the Technical Staff
On contract to NASA at the Ames Research Center. As manager of a 4-person
helicopter cockpit simulations group designing and implementing custom
real-time scientific graphics applications on DEC PDP-11s running RT-11 and
Evans and Sutherland hardware, was solely responsible for hiring the staff,
designing the overall structure of each simulation, assigning programmers
to the projects, and monitoring and evaluating the staff.
Major Accomplishments
* Designed and implemented a simulation of advanced helicopter cockpits
(on a PDP-11/40 running RT-11 and an Evans & Sutherland Picture
System) which allowed the NASA researchers to vary the simulation
display design while the simulation was running. Some simulations
ran in concert with dynamics concurrently simulated on a Xerox Sigma
9 and 6-degree-of-freedom simulators, communicating over a custom
high-speed data link. Analyzed simulation data on the Sigma 9 in
FORTRAN running CP-V.
* Wrote low-level software to control custom tone-generating hardware
for audio presentation of flight data to pilots.
* Performed systems programming for RT-11 and UNIX.
* Evaluated and recommended hardware and software for experimental
psycho-physical research, resulting in the purchase of a DEC
PDP-11/34.
* Maintained and enhanced the Aviation Safety Reporting System for the
Federal Aviation Agency, written in C and using INGRES on a PDP-11/70
running UNIX V6.
* One of two UNIX Systems Programmers maintaining the ASRS UNIX system,
fixing bugs and writing utilities.
* The NASA contract was on a cost-plus-percentage basis in which the
company's profit was directly dependent on the performance ratings
given by NASA. My group, and myself personally, consistently
received exceptional ratings for the quality and timeliness of our
programs, which translated directly into increased profits for
Informatics.
Reason for leaving: Too many auto accidents during long commute.
SUPPLEMENTAL EMPLOYMENT
YOUR OWN CONSULTING COMPANY - City, State 9/79 - Present
Owner of a small sideline software consulting business. Designed and
implemented a small and fast parser generator for LR(k) grammars
(Syntax/Semantics Language), a grammar analyzer for Extended Backus-Naur
Form language specifications, a test program for a component of a
semiconductor wafer production facility, miscellaneous utilities, and a
disassembler for the Motorola MC68000 on a DEC PDP-11 under UNIX V7, all in
S/SL and C on the Apple Macintosh.
Consulted with an electronics manufacturer on the design of a new DEC
VT132-compatible terminal.
Developed several graphics algorithms and programs for a manufacturer of
computerized movie camera control equipment for the film industry.