Profile: How to update your CV - just an idea. 1) Make sure your margins are a slim as possible. 2) Make sure your font size is 10-12

Transcription

1 Profile: How to update your CV - just an idea. 1) Make sure your margins are a slim as possible 2) Make sure your font size is ) All new sentences starting from the Left Hand margin 4) Just an idea perhaps have an introduction paragraph - a synopsis of your skill set and most importantly what you are really strong at (Not essential but if you do have one keep it brief) 5) Work experience - give a brief description of the company that you work for and what they do. How complex their systems are? Are they mission critical for example or how big the user base is for example? Explain what you have done within the role - perhaps outline a couple of projects - listing the technologies that you have used and most importantly what you have done with those technologies. Your CV will be read by Technical Architects so it s really important to spell it out, exactly what your role is - the type of applications you have worked on - and what you exactly code in. The environment - example Scrum / Agile. (keep the information for each job/project on the same page, don t let it split between two pages) 6) Projects Give a brief description of projects you have done yourself either freelancing, your own projects or working for clients. List the name, technology used in the project, how you used the technology and what for and how you developed the project as in your day to day tasks. 7) Your CV should be approx 2 to 4 pages long but keep the content relative, don t feel you have to fill the pages and also don t feel you have to keep to it if your experience runs slightly over. On reading it back to yourself you should get the feel that if a stranger read it they would technically understand what you have achieved and what you do on a day to day basis. 8) Education / Certs next / Awards 9) Interests and hobbies - always good to list. If you code outside of work / read technical books / magazines list this here shows you have a passion for the industry.

2 Sample CV (change to your own relevant technology) Introduction I am an experienced Java/J2EE Senior Engineer with 9 years in the commercial IT industry including the: mobile, air transport, telecommunications and health industries. Throughout my career I have built up excellent Java programming skills including OO design and programming whilst simultaneously developing first-class analytical, design and problem solving skills all of which allows me deliver best in class performance and results. Coming up with new and innovate software ideas are passion of mine. Skills Languages: J2SE (6, 5.0, 1.4), J2EE (5), Delphi (6) IDE: Eclipse 3.1 & 3.2, Intellij 6, 7 & 9, Borland Delphi 6 Databases: Oracle, MySQL, SQL Server, IBM DB2, Lotus Approach, Database Desktop, Microsoft Access, Paradox Source Control : Perforce, CVS, Subversion, SourceOffSite Operating Systems: Linux, UNIX, Windows (XP, 2000, 98, 95) Servers: Apache Tomcat, JBoss Web Services: JAX-RPC, Axis, SOAP Other: JUnit, JMeter, JIRA, VMWare, Citrix, Agile/Extreme Programming Employment History Senior J2EE Software Engineer April 2007 Present NewBay Software Ltd. ( the leader in digital lifestyle solutions for mobile handset operators, enabling mobile subscribers to create, store, view and share user generated content. Key Projects: A Social Networking Gateway that gives users the ability to upload and browse content on Social Networking Websites such as Facebook and Twitter from mobile handset and website clients. Interactions between the Gateway and clients are based on HTTP/HTTPS REST calls and data content is via ATOM, XML and JSON. The Gateway is based on a Spring Context and uses Spring MVC for controlling interactions with the mobile handset and website clients. Content is stored in Oracle & MySQL databases; Hibernate used for Object Relational Mapping. Numerous retry and concurrency mechanisms are used within the gateway for retrying failed uploads and running procedures in parallel. Interactions with the various Social Networking Websites are based on: REST, SOAP, JAX-RPC, and socket based. As Senior J2EE Software Engineer I am responsible for: Designing the next generation Social Networking Gateway. Implementing key features within the Social Networking Gateway such as: integrating new Social Networking API's, and developing a retry mechanism for uploading media files Overview of operations deployments to production servers Code reviews for junior developers Debugging and Problem solving

3 J2SE (6, 5.0, 1.4), J2EE (5), Spring, Hibernate, JMS, Web services (JAX-RPC, Axis, SOAP), Apache Tomcat, Oracle, MySQL, Intellij, JUnit, JMeter, Perforce, JIRA, Agile/Extreme Programming Java Software Engineer Sept April 2007 SITA Inc. Ireland Ltd. ( is the world's leading specialist in air transport communications and IT solutions Key Project: Deliver a distributed system providing seat availability on segments of up to 3 connecting flights. The system was split into 3 components: an availability processor, a schedule processor and a query processor. The availability processor connects to the query processor and to an Oracle database for storing information. The query processor is a cache interface and provides for faster data retrieval. The schedule processor provides schedule information while the availability processor provides availability information. As Java Software Engineer I was responsible for: Implementing features within their current air transport and telecommunication products Designing a nightly Unix test harness for the product Debugging issues and Problem Solving Testing of existing solutions J2SE (5.0, 1.4), Oracle, Eclipse 3.1 and 3.2, CVS, Subversion, XML, UML, J-Meter Technical Consultant Sept Sept Health Ireland Partners Ltd. ( is one of Ireland's leading medical informatics companies. As Technical Consultant I was responsible for: OO Design, Implementation and Testing of a medical software conversion program Support the development team with implementation of key product features Borland Delphi, Visual Basic, VBScript, SourceOffSite, VMWare, SQL Server, Citrix Lead Delphi Engineer & Technical Services Co-Coordinator Oct Sept Health Ireland Partners Ltd. ( is one of Ireland's leading medical informatics companies. Key Project: Provide stand alone and integrated enterprise strength Electronic Medical solutions to a range of patient care environments including hospitals, clinics and primary care teams. Responsible for converting third party databases into a specific format that was integrated into the system. Development and Official suppliers of medical informatics to the Special Olympics World Summer Games held in 2003

4 As Lead Delphi Engineer I was responsible for: Designing Specifications for new products Implementation of key features Reviewing submissions to source code repositories As Technical Services Co-Coordinator I was responsible for: Top Level Support of the medical product in Ireland Solving problematic issues for other support staff On-Site work with customers On-Going maintenance with live systems Borland Delphi, Visual Basic, VBScript, SourceOffSite, VMWare, SQL Server, Citrix Java Software Engineer Feb Sept IBM. ( is a leading provider of advanced information technology, products, services and business consulting expertise. As Software Engineer I was responsible for: Designing and implementing a J2EE Website for interacting with an IBM DB2 Database. Designing Seagate Crystal reports Developing a Java Graphical User Interface (GUI) program using Java Swing. Java, Servlets, Seagate Crystal Reports, Swing, DB2 Projects Give project name, brief description of what you did day to day, technology used and how you developed the project and what the aim or final result was. (do this for each project) Education University of Limerick, Ireland Bachelor of Information and Telecommunications: 1st Class Honours Christian Brothers Secondary School, Nenagh, Co. Tipperary, Ireland Professional Certification Completed: Sun Certified Programmer for Java 2 Platform 1.4 (CX ) Undertaking: Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 5.0 (CX ) Sun Certified Programmer for the Java Platform, Standard Edition 6 (CX )

5 Interests Coding at home (give detail) Astronomy, Cycling, Gym, Innovations, Running, Triathlons, Hill Walking References Excellent Available on Request