From: anon.541@pax.tpa.com.au
Newsgroups: misc.jobs.resumes
Subject: C UNIX VMS SNMP (Network Management) Telecom QA
Date: 9 Jan 1993 11:48:36 +1030
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Greetings,

Hope you had a pleasant holidays and haven't broke all of your new
years resolutions yet. I would love to work for an innovative company
that has a long term commitment to their employees and technology.  I
thought I would provide a little intro about myself, sort of an
informal cover letter.  I hope this answers your questions as to my
personal objectives.  My resume follows the introduction.  The resume
is proceeded by dashes ---, should you wish to search down to it.

I am a jack of all trades type engineer seeking intersting work in
Quality Assurance, Systems Integration and/or Software Tools
Development.  I am a very committed and self motivated person.  One of
my mottos is "Engineering is a project oriented business.  The entire
purpose of a project is to put itself out of business."  This quote is
from 'People on Peopleware' a great book on Software Management.
Whether I am employeed as a regular employee or as a contractor, I
want to finish a project and move on to the next project.  I believe
this is a good attitude for QA as well as many development positions.

Document and design projects well enough so that they can be
maintained by others.  Some companies want their developers to stay on
the same project for years to perform customer support and
enhancements.  This kind of position does not interest me.  These same
companies often do not document projects well enough.  This lack of
requirements and design documents often ensures that only the original
developers will ever understand the project.  This same environment
also tends to lead to design flaws and other problems being "swept
under the rug".  In short, many companies are in business for the
short term.  Nobody cares if the project is unusable or unmaintainable
in the future.

If you are wondering about my reason for leaving my last position, 
see the above paragraph.  I should also add that I was mislead as
to the project and people I would be working with when I started.
I never worked for or with any of the people I interviewed with.
There have been many management changes at my previous employer
since I left.  I left on good terms after completing my last project.
I am currently discussing a contract position with them.  Personally,
I would prefer to work for a company that has a history of long term
thinking.

The final question I would like to answer is why I am interested in 
QA and what I believe QA is.  In almost any large project the most
difficult part is the final integration and test of the project.
Accompanying this is the performance and acceptance testing.
Understanding and getting a large project to work is something I
enjoy.  The challenge in QA/integration work is not the actual testing
and integration.  The challenge is understanding the project.  The actual
testing and integration is pretty low skill work.  Any job is ten percent
inspiration and ninety percent perspiration.   In development work the
inspiration is the requirements and design phase.  In QA/integration work
the inspiration is understanding the project and designing the test and
performance measurement systems.  

If you are interested in a QA engineer who is self motivated and
capable of understanding complex systems, please contact me.  I also
do software tools development.  Most software tools are for testing
and sometimes design.  I have a good background in embedded testing
and test tools.

Warning, this offer may expire soon.  One cannot live off one's savings
forever.  I am willing to work at a discount for three to six months
for a good organization on a innovative project.



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