Dear sir or madame,

I am looking for two things this work term:  fancy toys and a great work environment.  My personal emphasis is on the last.  And to me, fancy toys don’t mean foosball and an Xbox (although they are appreciated!), they mean a cool platform.  To me, e-learning is just such a thing.  This is a natural reaction for me – I grew up around teachers and technology and even followed along as my mother completed a Master of Distance Education degree.  The one thing that bugged me all along?  The technology just is not in place (or even invented) yet.

I want to learn more about your company – and I hope you’ll want to learn more about me.  My resume, attached below, is a bit unorthodox, but I think it describes me quite well.  You’ll notice that during my last work term I created a company and a product for the educational market – indeed, this is part of my curiousity about your company:  I want to be in an established, successful business in the market and learn everything you have to teach me.

Respectfully,

Colin Dellow

COLIN LESLIE DELLOW

or, University of Waterloo Student #20124248

or, 3A Software Engineering Student #23

or, cldellow

LOCATION

1512B 300 Regina St N, Waterloo, ON  N2J 4H2  

phone: (519) 489-1020  email:  cldellow@gmail.com  web: http://cldellow.com/

EDUCATION

Candidate for Bachelor of Software Engineering (Honours)

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, ON              Sept 2003 – present

• Relevant courses: Software Abstraction and Specification, Concurrent and Parallel Programming, Human-Computer Interaction
• 98% - More-than-doubled the CS 241 class average on final project of a compiler for a toy language using Java/JLex/JCup
• 104% - Top mark on CS 133 final project of a pseudo-3D Java garden simulation

APPLICABLE BUZZWORDS (Inquire for more details.)

C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, SQL Server, Access, IIS, ODBC, Sockets, PHP, Perl, Java, Cocoon, XML, XSLT, DOM, SAX, HTML, Linux, C, JavaScript, AJAX, PostgreSQL,  MySQL, XSL:FO, CVS, Subversion, N-tiered Systems

WORK EXPERIENCE

Co-Founder

OARBS Software Corporation, Waterloo, ON July 2005 – present

• Migrated legacy application from VB/ASP/Access to .NET with PostgreSQL DB
• Worked with customers in educational market to enhance product
• Devised bootstrap-based marketing strategies
• Webmaster of corporate site at http://oarbs.com/
• Pursued and successfully completed freelance projects from analysis to deployment worth over $7,000

Senior Enterprise Java Developer

Arius Software Corporation, Waterloo, ON                  May – Aug 2004, Jan – Apr 2005

• Worked with VP of Product Development in architecture design discussions
• Led team of six developers in day-to-day development, testing and debugging
• Migrated company’s largest customer’s data to new version of product
• Developed Extract, Transform, Load tool for stress testing and importing data
• Maintained and extended a codebase of over 400,000 lines of code
• Extended company’s compiler, layout engines, and integrated development environment (IDE)
• Retrofitted AJAX capabilities to legacy Java codebase

LIFE HIGHLIGHTS SO FAR

• Number of multi-threaded C sockets applications written by age 14: 1
• Number of same which received acclamation in its field: 1
• Number of shirts ripped off my back by unsatisfied clients: 1
• Highest Scrabble score in a two-player game: 391
• Most Kraft Dinner consumed in one sitting: 1.4 L
• Number of MBAs I have interviewed for a job position by age 20: 1
• Best comment from TA on my work: “Virtually devoid of course content.”