From: tom@castlab.uucp (Tom Wuttke)
Subject: BS EE/CS/Math looking for Windows/C++ Software Design Position
Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
Date: 13 Dec 92 20:43:47 CST

Prospective Employer:

I am seeking a position developing cutting edge Windows 
software.  I have a strong desire for designing and 
perfecting the future of today's professional software, 
primarily in the user-interface and usability department.  

I have a broad range of professional and personal experience 
with the various levels of software design, more so than 
most candidates you will interview coming out of college.  
Since I first learned how to program computer languages when 
I was ten years old, I have attacked an extensive depth of 
projects, ranging from artificial intelligence for video 
games and hardware interrupts for a competitive game buzzer 
system to inventing new ways of enhancing scientific data by 
mathematical convolution and overseeing and implementing all 
levels of the user interface of an interactive graphing 
system.  I have worked with systems ranging from Atari 
personal computers, to Amigas, to Macintoshes, to IBM-PC's, 
even the latest UNIX and X-Windows environments.  I have 
programming experience in most of the major computer 
languages, although I strongly believe in using C++ as much 
as possible.  I personally own three compeltely different 
computer systems, one of them a 486, and dozens of reference 
manuals.  I lived with Electrical Engineering students for 
the past four years, and have a great deal of specific 
projects I was involved with, including networking our 
computers together to share one hard drive, writing a 
program to draw pictures with lasers, designing a voice-
interface to remind people of appointments, and too much 
more to remember.  Just last year, I was selected by 
Microsoft, a very selective corporation, to be a software 
design intern.  There, I acquired a great wealth of 
corporate experience and exposure to the inside of large-
scale commercial projects, from the design and pre-
documentation stages to the final beta testing and shipping.  

But the center of my professional background has to be the 
work I've done for the metallurgy department of the 
University of Wisconsin, Madison.  I have developed several 
scientific plotting and analysis programs specifically for 
the needs of the professors there.  My final project, which 
was to take two years, was a large-scale usable program to 
quickly analyze and record data using MS-Windows.  It was to 
have an interactive system for looking at data graphically, 
and it needed to run on various configurations of PC's in 
heat foundries, as well as those of researchers.  It was a 
success, and I have received many compliments for it.  
Writing this, I gained a detailed grasp for the inner 
workings and theories of MS-Windows.  

Besides my direct professional experience, I also obtained a 
world-class education at the University of Wisconsin.  I not 
only completed the requirements for a Bachelor's degree in 
Electrical and Computer Engineering, but also those for a 
Computer Science and Mathematics major as well.  Because of 
my ambition and excellent academic skills, I was able to 
finish in two semesters LESS than it takes the average 
student to complete only ONE degree requirement, with a 
respectable grade point average well above the norm.  
Classes were never enough for me, which is why I was always 
working somewhere, but also I was involved with several 
campus organizations.  As my resume states, I was elected 
president of an engineering fraternity and an electrical 
engineering honor society.  I spent a great deal of my free 
time, if you can call it that, tutoring other people in the 
fraternity and setting up public lectures for electrical 
engineers to choose their emphasis by listening to the 
professors describe their departments.  In summary, I am not 
only technically advanced, but I am also quite capable as a 
leader and an organizer.  At one of the larger engineering 
award banquets, I was asked to be the speaker to present the 
student and faculty awards.  And I created and hosted a game 
show similar to Jeopardy, but it contained only engineering 
topics.  It was sponsored with the motive that it would 
promote the college of engineering, and I received many 
compliments for that endeavor also.  All of my professors 
and advisors, the dean, and the head of the electrical 
engineering department knew be, if not by name, by my 
presence, as I visited them in their offices, sat in the 
front row in their classes, and attended or participated in 
most of the non-class activities on campus.  

I am an exceptional individual, I stand out.  That is why I 
am seeking a job to match my style, I want to work with 
other brilliant minds doing something worthwhile for the 
world, and maybe even profitable.  Most of my experience and 
education gives me the power to program computers very well, 
but as you can probably tell by now, I am very good at a lot 
of things.  I noticed almost every company I've dealt with 
has one or two "smart guys" that know everything, and 
everyone directs customers or new people with questions to 
them.  I am like those "smart guys", I usually get asked 
most of the questions, because I just know a lot about a 
wide range of things, even areas I'm not supposed to be 
qualified in, like grammar and spelling.  And if I don't 
know an answer, I make an honest attempt to find someone 
else who does.

If your company needs someone who works harder when things 
get tougher, who has a positive attitude toward everything, 
a strange sense of humor, and seems to be a natural genius, 
then contact me quickly.  I am willing to relocate, in fact, 
I want to see the world, so I would prefer to move.  Save me 
from having to take a boring job somewhere else just to pay 
the bills!

Signed, 
Thomas Wuttke


And now...the latest attempt at a resume:


                 Thomas Edwin Wuttke

Career goals: 

To use my proven talents for designing software to create 
extraordinary MS-Windows-based applications, preferably in 
an object oriented C++ platform.


Related Work Experience:

5/90-12/92 Software developer for UW research & commercial   
           foundries, Cast Metals Lab, University of  
           Wisconsin MME dept, Prof. Fred Bradley

  o Wrote an interactive knowledge-based research tool to 
    numerically analyze the metallurgy of metals based on    
    their thermal properties.  This system was based in 
    Borland C++ and MS-Windows.

  o Converted lots of FORTRAN ideas into compact C code.

  o Created new techniques of numerically enhancing noisy 
    experimental data.

  o Constructed a real time data acquisition system with A/D 
    board.

  o Directly interacted with researchers and foundry 
    representatives to fix bugs and customize their 
    configurations.

  o Helped people around the lab with questions about UNIX, 
    Windows, and programming, and wrote various small "get 
    the job done" programs.


5/91-9/91  Software Design Engineer intern at Microsoft 
           Corporation

  o Designed specs for a file bundling class to 
    store multiple type definitions in one file.

  o Wrote C++ code to implement file bundle class as part of 
    an object-oriented compiler.


9/88-5/90  Software developer for UW research group,               
           Materials Science, Prof. Max Lagally

  o Designed a scientific plotting system for plotter/laser 
    printer with a script language+documentation.   
    Emphasis was on quality of output, the results had to 
    be publishable.

  o Wrote custom software to numerically compare 
    diffraction experiments to a theory and fit various 
    parameters.

  o Designed and implemented a graphical, interactive data 
    editor to transform and view data for research.

  o Created, from the ground up, a 3-D image viewing system 
    including hidden line removal and vectorization for use 
    with plotters.

  o Wrote a small image enhancement system for microscope 
    data, including halftone laser printer drivers and 
    object recognition.


Education and Campus Leadership:

o University of Wisconsin - Madison
  Degree granted May 17, 1992
  B.S. Electrical & Computer Engineering
     + Computer Science  
     + Mathematics

o G.P.A. 3.325 (Dean's Honor List)

o Award - Outstanding Senior Award

o Award - ECE department scholarship

o Award - Alumni Scholarship Recipient

o President and Founder of the Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Phi 
  Delta, an international social/professional engineering  
  fraternity

o President of Eta Kappa Nu Electrical Engineering Honor 
  Society 

o Vice-President of the Polygon Engineering Student Council

o Creator and host of "Engineering Jeopardy!" for Engineer's 
  Week (a game show to promote the college of engineering)


Skills and Interests:

o Three years professional experience with C language

o Real experience with PC's and MS-Windows 3.1

o Owner of multiple computers, hack on them regularly

o Familiarity with networks, UNIX, X-Windows

o User of email and the internet daily

o Familiarity with assembly language & custom hardware

o Hobbyist in audio/video production

o Understanding of 3D projection, motion, etc.

o Interest in fantasy writing and creative animation

o Wrote award winning video games before high school

o Enjoy acting, public speaking, and teaching

o Poet / Songwriter / Beginning Musician

o Strong interpersonal skills

o A Compulsive Innovative Thinker!


Current Address:                Permanent Address (parents):
2525 University Ave. Apt. J     3170 S. Monterey Dr.
Madison, WI 53705               New Berlin, WI  53151
(608) 238-2463                  (414) 782-3284

Internet electronic mail: tom@castlab.engr.wisc.edu


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