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Ask HN: I would like to work in London, would you help me with my CV/résumé?
Thanks to everyone that is reading this post and everyone that wants to help me! You have my gratitude :-)
tl;dr - My CV/résumé probably sucks for the lack of real working experience as a programmer. What would you change? What would you improve or highlight? What should I try to include in it to make it more compelling?
Résumé PDF: http://ge.tt/3RgNL2P/v/0
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/marcomassarelli
- ceoloide 14y agoI currently work as a tech consultant for Accenture in Italy, but I would like to move to London and work for a software company with a strong software culture. The first big project in Accenture that I worked on was an image recognition service that calculated KPIs and metrics of the shelf layout in supermarkets. Think of a panorama app to capture a whole shelf mashed together with Google Goggles to recognize specific products. In this project I designed the information workflow, the mobile app for Symbian and Android, the back-office tools. I directly contributed to the code of the Android application, improving performance and stability and even building new features. I was considered an SME of the whole solution and I was chosen more than once to participate in knowledge transfer sessions with new teams and managers. The second big project I worked on was a knowledge sharing intranet portal, integrating multiple systems and allowing the user to search on them from a single page. Here I had a smaller involvement in the design of the solution: I was in charge of security, data model, and the web-services. I quickly became very knowledgeable about the entire solution architecture, given that I acted as a bridge between the business and dev teams. After project go-live I was nominated to maintenance coordinator, thanks to my knowledge of the system, and I got the chance to supervise teams of 5 and 2 people in the Philippines and India. In my free time I'm working on a manga reader app for Windows Phone 7.5 (w/ custom reading functionality and web scraping on manga portals), an open-source transfer manager library for Windows Phone 7.5 (https://github.com/ceoloide/DownloadManager https://github.com/ceoloide/DownloadManager) and in the spare time contributing to the code of the upcoming metwit.com Android app (although very small time is left to do that). When I don't code I participate to the Appsterdam meetings here in Milan.
- fla 14y agoRésumé, not rèsumè. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9sum%C3%A9
- ceoloide 14y agoThanks!
- viraptor 14y agoNit picking: it's mobile rather then cell in UK. Otherwise it looks interesting, but I usually see more details. It looks like there's much more to tell about the research papers. Also the Accenture work is all in one block, but I can see a number of areas you worked on - is it worth separating them with some more description? I'd also mention the group leader part (or repeat it in skills) on its own. Then again it comes from a person used to receiving 5+ pages cv prepared by agencies. To me your cv looks good, but I'm not sure if someone from HR would be happy - if you have any friends in that area, show it to them too .
- ceoloide 14y agoThanks for the suggestions! Nit picking is good ;-) I will revise the résumé and include your comments. At first I had detailed the projects I worked on in Accenture, but they ended up taking too much space. I'll try to improve on that.