February 4, 2003
Greetings Prospective Employer and Human Resources Representative:
Thank you for taking the time to examine my resume and cover letter. The following is what I hope you want to know about me:
I am extremely organized. I document well. I'm a self-starter. I handle responsibility well and if you want me to code something that I don't know how to do, I'll learn. I was well known for all of those characteristics at my last place of employment and I have great references because of it.
I am ready to work NOW. I am currently enrolled in my second night course in Java at North Seattle Community College. Last summer I completed the UW Extension Certificate Course in Unix/Linux Administration and the Perl Programming Certificate.
The flexible hours I had while freelancing during the last two years permitted me to take those courses and to complete some personal projects for the purpose of upgrading my skills, and now I would prefer to be employed.
The personal projects included setting up my own home networks (a Unix and PC LAN) on DSL, building 4 computers, and configuring an Apache Web Server to serve dynamic pages, some of them served from a database.
In my last position, I was a Web developer, Web applications developer, and the Webmaster (public site, extranets, & intranet) of
a Web-software producing company; working in both Linux/Unix and Windows operating systems, coding pages in raw HTML, Perl/CGI, OO-Perl, and JavaScript, and producing images with Adobe PhotoShop.
My responsibilities included:
Writing Perl/CGI scripts to:
- dynamically generate table of content pages for directory contents,
- dynamically generate a "What's new?" page to link to recently modified files,
- sort, add, and retrieve data from flat file virtual database through an OO-CGI/Perl script,
- replace line data simultaneously on pages in multiple directories.
HTML updates to the Intranet included phone lists, calendars, and content revisions.
Original HTML coding included image mapping of a PhotoShop-created organizational chart in which each person's listing was a clickable link to his biography sheet, as well as complex tables and frames.
I received my Computer Programming certificate from North
Seattle Community College in June 1999, with a grade point average of 3.76 in the following courses:
- Introduction to the Internet and HTML.
- Advanced HTML, PhotoShop, Dreamweaver.
- Unix Operating System (ksh): basic commands and switches, shell and local variables, scripts,
dot commands, permissions, aliases, command substitution, vi, Pico, Pine, tin, telnet, FTP, ytalk, write.
- Linux Special Projects for LAN (bash): more scripting, intro to awk, intro to Perl,
intro to CGI, mailx, web-based permissions, directory structures (hierarchy), using text files as
databases, working with shells, crontab daemon, linked files.
- Data Communications: TCP/IP, IEEE 802 standards, LAN & WAN.
- Introduction to Visual Basic Programming, including Black and White Box testing.
- Visual Basic programming, level 2(with SQL), and more Black and White Box testing.
- Introduction to C++ programming.
- Access (including intro to SQL) - Excel - Powerpoint.
- Database Design and Data Management: SQL, Entity-Relationship Diagrams, Data Dictionaries, database design logic.
- Systems Analysis (System Development Life Cycle, Gantt Charts, Critical Path, UML).
Meryll Larkin
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