Last update: 08-Oct-96 by dennette@wiz-worx.com
<Who is this "Dennette" person?>
To whom it may concern:
Please allow me to introduce myself. I have been a professional software engineer for the past twenty years. In that time, I have acquired an international reputation in the field of digital product definition data interoperability. At my last position, I was a Principal Software Engineer with an annual salary of $54,000.
None of that matters now. The field in which I specialized for most of my professional career is now a dead-end for me as the national and international standards that I helped develop reach the end of their life cycle, at least as far as my skills are concerned.
While looking for a new career path, I encountered the World Wide Web. My first experience with the Internet was in 1976, when I had an APRAnet address while working at Xerox. That was also when I first started using the hypertext and GUI tools which Xerox developed at their Palo Alto Research Center (but allowed Apple to popularize).
I have been thinking about how to use these paradigms for the last twenty years. I have acquired the hardware resources to do things that I dreamed about doing twenty years ago … I have set up a node on the Internet in my living room using a 486-based PC running Linux. I have taught myself to be a HostMaster, a job description that did not exist two years ago.
I am currently seeking a position where I will be responsible for a company's Internet and World Wide Web interactivity as a direct-report to a director or vice-president. I have a background in commercial advertising and artistic promotions that can be seen on my personal Web pages. I am ideally suited to promote a company's best image on the WWW, as well as being able to integrate their business practices to take advantage of the new technological opportunities made possible by the WWW paradigm.
Although I have been primarily a technician, I have been responsible for the management of several hundred specialists for several weeks each year as part of national standards development, mostly Principal Scientists and Principal Engineers. I am seeking a senior technical/management position with zero or few subordinates.
Examples of my communications skills (published articles and papers) can be found attached to my resume.
References may be found by contacting any of the URLs on my Tri-Lambda Membership Page These are professional colleagues with whom I have worked for the last fifteen years (who can speak to my knowledge, accomplishments, and character) whose social relationships I value as well.
I believe that I am entitled to a certain amount of arrogance … I have decided to promote myself using the World Wide Web, and expect that any potential employer would have adequate resources to view my resume and contact my references. This is because I do not want to work for someone who does not have the resources at their disposal than I have at home.
In other words, the only "tool" I want to have to take to the office to do my job is my brain, and I've got all the resources at home so that I can "telecommute" with no burden to my employer.
Thank you for your consideration. -=DAH=- 30-Jul-96
Last update: 08-Oct-96 by dennette@wiz-worx.com
<Who is this "Dennette"
person?>