AboutKathleen MacNaughton Expertise As an experienced healthcare recruiter and manager, as well as owner of one of the most popular resume help websites on the Web, I can answer questions about how to write a resume and/or cover letter, job interview tips, and other general job hunting and career topics.
Experience As a health care senior executive, I recruited hundreds of staff for a home care agency, both professional and non-professional. I also own a successful website about writing resumes and related job hunting topics that has more than 100,000 unique visitors a month. I am a freelance writer specializing in the areas of resumes, cover letters, and job interviews.
Education/Credentials BS degree in Nursing from Syracuse University
23 credits completed towards a Masters in Nursing Administration at Villanova University
Numerous seminars and conferences dealing with recruitment, resumes, job interviews
Expert: Kathleen MacNaughton Date: 5/8/2008 Subject: One last question... (I hope)
Question Hello Kathleen,
Its me again! I just asked you a day or so ago to review my resume and tell me if you saw any formatting or content concerns. Quick recap, I want to present my leadership and technical skills in the hopes of landing a management role. I mentioned I was going to try and create a one-page version and have done so below. Can you peruse it and let me know if you feel it is too sparse to spark any interest? (pretend you are a hiring manager looking for a tech weenie to manage your support team)
Thanks again!
RESUME BEGIN.............
TIMOTHY A. FENNER
732 Fuller Street | Columbus, WI 53925
Web: www.linkedin.com/in/timfenner
Email: FennerTim@gmail.com
Phone: 920-623–5015
IT MANAGEMENT POSITION*******
Certified professional seeks management role within a financially strong and stable organization; Targeting an organization that values their employee’s development by offering learning and growth opportunities; Ready and waiting to utilize 9 years of experience to positively impact an organizations bottom-line, in ways similar to the selected achievements listed below:
- Developed a single “switch” mechanism to failover the entire datacenter to a DR site during an emergency.
- Deployed first virtual environment to consolidate hardware, expand scalability and reduce associated costs by over 50%.
- Implemented a new Service Desk to streamline problem, asset and change management and improve customer satisfaction.
- In first year (working part-time), generated new programs which accounted for over 10% of expected yearly income.
- Upon request, donated DR implementation planning guide to Western Technical College for their IT curriculum.
- Was nominated 10 times for “expert of the month” @ AllExperts.com within the first month of volunteering.
- Successfully negotiated over $25,000 in concessions from vendors who failed to meet expectations.
Dates: April 2000 – To Present
Title: Sr. Systems Administrator
Company: IPC
Summary: Based in Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, Independent Pharmacy Cooperative is a pharmaceuticals distribution warehouse that neared $500 million in sales and was rated a top 200 company by In Business Magazine (April 2006).
- Business Management: Designed organization’s Disaster Recovery and High Availability strategy.
- Career Advancement: First 5 years: IT Specialist-->Network and Systems Administrator-->Sr. Systems Administrator.
- Network Management: Within first week, doubled speed, reliability and QOS by correctly configuring switch architecture.
- Project Management: Upgraded Windows NT-->2003; Exchange 5.5-->2003; and many more with zero consultant expense.
Security Planning: Deployed VPNs, IPS, data encryption, biometrics, anti-virus, auditing, etc to protect corporate assets.
- Service Desk Mgmt: Developed custom database for tracking all assets, trouble tickets, purchases, users, etc.
- Systems Management: Lowered spam by 95% using real-time spam black lists, white lists, filters, policies, etc.
Dates: June 2001 – To Present
Title: (Part-Time) Director of Technology Services
Company: RUWIRED
Summary: RUWIRED provides IT consulting services for homes and businesses in the Greater Madison, WI area.
- Business Management: In first year (working part-time), generated new accounts that increased profits by 15%.
- Career Advancement: First 5 years: Technology Consultant --> Systems Architect / IT Salesman Dr. Technology Services
- Charity Work: Provided free consulting, installation and troubleshooting for Tri-State Christian School.
- Consulting: Designed, implemented and managed small-to-mid-sized Microsoft Windows networks.
- Database design: Developed online presence using websites, partner portals and remote access functionality.
- Marketing: Produced marketing strategies, brochures, business cards, promotional materials, etc.
- Project Management: Provided project planning and management for customers’ IT implementations and modifications.
Dates: September 2006 – To Present
Title: Online Technical Writer
Company: Multiple Organizations
Summary: I provide technical expertise and articles for several well-known online technology-related organizations.
- Charity Work: Volunteer at AllExperts.com, providing free technical expertise to its visitors.
- Technical Writer: Provided technical articles for Techtarget.com, one generated over 10K hits in one month’s time.
Answer Hi Tim,
Sorry about the delay... had emergency dental surgery last week and have been out of commission since.
I think this new version looks good and DOES communicate much about your expertise, though I don't find it quite as compelling as the previous version. Still, you can spark further interest with a well-written cover letter.
I'll reiterate my suggestion of reversing the order you've listed your jobs, for the same reasons stated previously.
In your objective paragraph, "organizations" should be "organization's".
