My new resume...

Cancel what I said about the depression stuff. I just looked at your personal site again, and a potential employer would REALLY have to dig deep to figure out that the depression part of it applies to you. Your personal site looks great -- so don't change anything.

We are ALL going to be a-ok!

Thanks so much Heather and LMo for your help and suggestions.

I think I'll rewrite some of those things LMo... one of the reasons I put "undertook" is because I wanted to emphasize that these were not part of my job, but rather things that I saw needed some work and took it upon myself to work on and fix for the good of the company. But I agree that "undertook" is awkward.

In the car before I was thinking of "initiated" instead. That's a much better action verb I think, and also better descriptively of what I was trying to convey.

Same thing with "Determined the need for". It wasn't something that I was assigned to do, nor was it a project that was begun that I jumped in to. Everyone was chugging along with the old database program, I thought the old program was sucky, so I asked the boss if I could do a new one, which I did, wrote, and implemented. I'll see how I can reword that maybe, but I still want to convey that I was a "take charge" sort of guy for that.

As for number of years... it was only a few months really... it was one of the last things I did before my "breakdown" there, and in fact it still was a work in progress, although it was functional enough to be up and running. I have no idea if they are even still using it or if they scrapped it because no one there could finish cleaning it up.

If the whole thing wasn't so anxiety ridden for me I'd ask them if I could finish it from home and have them pay me for it. Just the thought of interacting with them enough to do that puts me in a tailspin.

I should do something about the Database Design entry... I kind of wasn't emphasizing that because first of all it was way outside my job functions but also because it is something I puttered together on my own... while it worked very well it was far from a "professional" job, I'm really only beginning to learn such stuff... and although I thought it was worth mentioning I also don't want to pretend I am a pro database designer and get hired on that basis. However I think I'm just really too timid in that regard... I should either highlight it or take it out if I don't think I'm up to it... poop or get off the pot, so to speak. I'll think about giving it a title. Maybe I'll move it under "Vice President" or something because I think that is kind of lost there by itself. Truth is the "promotion" to VP didn't involve any additional duties nor did it involve a pay raise... it was party the boss just giving me recognition but MOSTLY so that I could sign off on some of the ISO paperwork and give a break to one of the other VPs there. The one I got in trouble with, BTW. Bitter memories.


------------------------------------
--http://www.idexter.com

I revised the sections as you recommended, I agree they are much better now and reflect what I was intending to portray even better.

The database section may still be a little awkward, but I've been mucking with two sentences there for so long without a break I'm not sure if I'm a good judge anymore.

I also didn't like "learned" but I wanted to get across that I "self taught" myself the subject so I changed that as well and I think it works better also.

For the heading I could have just changed it to "Database Creator" but I tried "Author" and I think it is either very good or very bad .

I made the revisions to both versions (layouts) but for now I think I will stick with the newer layout? Is that the one everyone likes so much?

I have to update these on the website now... I may put up just the one version or both... it'll be a surprise .

Thanks again

------------------------------------
--http://www.idexter.com

I posted the revisions, same place:
-- The world is what we make of it --
-- Dave
-- <A target="_blank" HREF=http://www.idexter.com>http://www.idexter.com</A>