Dear Sir or Madam,
As a software engineer working on high-profile projects with industry leaders, I have had the opportunity to develop technical and professional skills which I believe would make me a valuable addition to your company. I am accustomed to working under tight deadlines with high-end technologies, and am looking for opportunities to push my skills even further.
Please review my resume and consider me for any positions for which I may be suited. Thank you in advance for your time.
Sincerely,
Steven G. Chipman
TARGET JOB
Target Job Title: Software Engineer / Web Application Developer
Desired Job Type: Employee
Desired Status: Full-Time
EXPERIENCE
Senior Software Engineer | America Online | Dulles, VA | 09.29.99 - Present
In my time with AOL, I have been promoted from Interactive Media Developer to Associate Software Engineer to Software Engineer and finally to Senior Software Engineer.
My responsibilities have ranged from building and maintaining the current
functionality of the company's flagship web product, AOL.com, to building
numerous high-profile web-based applications, such as "Virtual Poetry," which
over the course of its two-week promotion received more than 12 million hits
and was touted by upper management as one of AOL's most successful
Valentine's Day promotions to date.
I am currently the sole engineer responsible for the web registration process
for AOL and have my hands full with rearchitecting the back end of the system
to allow for greater flexibility, allowing the marketing team to deploy and test various user interfaces and promotional offers quickly and easily.
I have also received several awards for my involvement with the launch of AOLtv and the AOL 7.0 client as well as the rewrite of the AIM Express launch scripts from Perl to Tcl which resulted in a 40% reduction in server load.
Lead Developer | Delmarva Online | Salisbury, MD | 01.04.99 - 09.10.99
• Development of commercial web sites, including every type from static online brochures to dynamic, database driven e-commerce sites.
• Cost estimation of commercial web site construction.
• Maintenance of existing commercial web sites and Delmarva Online’s web site.
• Development of several proprietary web based & stand alone solutions.
PC Technician | George, Miles & Buhr, LLC | Salisbury, MD | 04.98 - 12.98
• General maintenance and upkeep of individual Win95 systems, network and Novel server.
• Trouble shooting (i.e.…a machine blue screens, I am called).
• Purchase and installation of software and hardware upgrades.
• Presentation Image processing (image manipulation, before/after construction).
• Upkeep and design of website.
SKILLS
| Skill Name | Skill Level | Last Used | Experience |
| Javascript | Expert | Currently Used | 5 years |
| Tcl | Expert | Currently Used | 4 years |
| HTML | Expert | Currently Used | 6 years |
| Java | Expert | Currently Used | 5 years |
| CSS | Expert | Currently Used | 5 years |
| DHTML | Expert | Currently Used | 5 years |
| Visual Basic | Expert | Currently Used | 6 years |
| ActiveX | Expert | Currently Used | 5 years |
| Unix OS | Expert | Currently Used | 3 years |
| AOLserver | Expert | Currently Used | 4 years |
| SQL | Expert | Currently Used | 5 years |
| PHP | Intermediate | Currently Used | 1 years |
| Cold Fusion | Intermediate | 3 years ago | 2 years |
| Perl | Intermediate | Currently Used | 4 years |
| ASP | Intermediate | 1 year ago | 3 years |
| Photoshop | Intermediate | Currently Used | 7 years |
It should be noted that any skills ranked as Intermediate are done so because I rarely have the opportunity to use them in my current job. Give me a week with those technologies and I will be as proficient with them as I am with anything else.
EDUCATION
Maryland College of Art and Design
Associate, Fine Arts
Emphasis included portraiture with oils, acrylics, and various other medium.
AFFILIATIONS
Experts Exchange
03.1998 - present
Active expert in the Javascript/HTML/CSS/Web Development Forums
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
REFERENCES
References available upon request.