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STEPS to Successful Career Planning

 

The STEPS modelImplementation

How to market yourself

Resumes that get results

 

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YOUR NAME

Street Address City, State Zip Code Phone Number

Email: xxxx@xxx.xxx Web: http://xxx.xxxx/xxx
_________________________________________________________________

OBJECTIVE

Full-time position in data security with opportunity to test network integrity on internal/external clients and propose security solutions to combat network penetration attempts.

EDUCATION

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science May 2000

Arizona State University Tempe, AZ

GPA: 3.0

COMPUTER SKILLS

Programming Languages: Perl, C/C++, JavaScript, HTML, CGI, Casio BASIC, VB Script
Operating Systems: Windows 3.1/95/98/NT, DOS, UNIX, VMS, & Macintosh
Software: MS Office, Microsoft Developer Studio, wsFTP, wsGopher, telenet,
Netscape Communicator, Internet Explorer, Lynx, NukeNabber, Sam Spade, Weblogic server
Databases: MS Access 2000, SQL Server 7.0, Cloud Scape

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Set up a port monitoring program (NukeNabber) stopping an attempted break-in and contacted the service provider who determined that an individual was unlawfully using their largest commercial customer’s computers.
Traced email headers of a pornographic mail bomb to a British hacker called "Virus Pete" and contacted the internet service provider who disconnected "Virus Pete" for violating UK Data Protection Act.
Published the steganography (hidden message) program called mimic.pl online which was accepted into the security file archives of both PacketStorm. (http://packetssstorm.security.com/) and Security Focus (http://www.securityfocus.com/).
Tracked various junk emails and contacted the appropriate internet service provider for violations of their acceptable use policy which resulted in the senders being disconnected.

EXPERIENCE

Sales Clerk Cold Stone Creamery Mesa, AZ May 1999 –August 2000

Successfully upsold products resulting in doubling the sales ratio of coworkers. Consistently received weekly and monthly sales awards (several each month).
Communicated with customers to assess expectations and needs, resulting in increased customer satisfaction and more repeat customers.
Trained new personnel in product knowledge, policies, procedures and compliance with state laws.
Collaborated with management in decisions regarding the reputation of the establishment and personnel hiring and firing.
Accurately cashed-out the register at the end of the day ($3000), resulting in fewer errors than coworkers.
Resolved communication barriers with Spanish speaking customers by using cognates in English and French as well as learning job-specific words and phrases.

LANGUAGES

Conversational Spanish