resume

[Undertoad]

(my name and email address here)

Objective: I’m looking for full-time work with a startup or small organization that needs a true generalist, someone highly intelligent and creative, who must wear many hats and wear them all well.

My skills are in web design, web development, marketing, system administration, and online community. My ideal position would require all of them.

1985 - BSCS Albright College, followed by serious systems programming and software engineering

1989 - Basic business coursework at St. Joseph’s University

1990 - Founded The Cellar, one of the Internet's longest-living communities - see cellar.org

1991 - Offered Philly its first Usenet+Internet email access

1992 - Converted professionally to sysadmin

1995 - Sysadminning on the net

1997 - Early PHP development

1999 - Founded first startup, web development team

2002 - Converted the startup to a personal consultancy

2007 - Enterprise Linux system administrator

2010 - Founded second startup designing beautiful, SEO-friendly microsites for small business - see tokeninternet.com

Affordable - honest - good-natured - humble - will not tolerate bad coffee

[Spexxvet]

Don't forget your mad management/project management skilz.

BTW, you're hired.

[Undertoad]

Thank you sir. I will not let you down.

[glatt]

Tolerating bad coffee is a key skill in these United States.

The resume looks good. Impressive is a better word, actually.

[Undertoad]

Thank you sir

If nothing comes of it I will move to a more... ordinary resume format and submit for web design work. Or something.

In the ordinary resume format I am much less impressive and that's what you need to get a job.

the ordinary resume format doesn't care about the Cellar because it wasn't professional work

People do not go on monster.com looking for people like me. Generalists. People want to hire specialists, for one skill, and they want to measure you on how expert you are in it. When they measure me that way I do not measure up.

[BigV]

we should talk. but later, I'm useless to you now.

[BigV]

ps, I like your resume and your work. There's a way to communicate it. There is.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

People do not go on monster.com looking for people like me. Generalists. People want to hire specialists, for one skill, and they want to measure you on how expert you are in it.

Very very true. This has been my experience as well.

I like your innovative format. Definitely should stand out.

[infinite monkey]

UT...it's great. You'll get the job of your dreams soon. If I could, I'd hire a guy like you in a heartbeat.

I like where you put 'honest' because as you've said no one seems to look for integrity and it would be the first thing I would want in an employee.

[jimhelm]

small businesses face a transitional challenge when they grow to a point where they need to hire someone(s) to handle the growth of their business. Maybe you need to find someone that has a 1st level business but needs to move to the 2nd. you could be the office manager. you'll need accounting skills for that, and the owner will need to trust you.

seems to me like a difficult gig to get.... have you thought about trying on some of your recent Token clients? Those are the types of businesses I'm thinking of.

[Perry Winkle]

Wow, UT. It sounds like you want my job, except the marketing and online community aspects.

I may be vacating it soon. You want to come to Montana and take over?

[Undertoad]

yes please

[Perry Winkle]

If you are serious, I'll give you a shout as things solidify. I can't guarantee you'd get the job but I'm thinking you'd have no problem doing so.

You could also look at this search on the MT job site. The two "web developer" jobs are in shops I used to work in. Good jobs. Good people.

[Undertoad]

dang i'm chickening out

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Undertoad

dang i'm chickening out

I'm hoping you did an on-line stutter and meant to type you are CHECKING IT OUT! Check it out.

If even for practice.