A programmer's resume should reflect the candidate's programming skills. To achieve this, add the Technical Summary or Technical Expertise section to your resume. Further break this section into subcategories for a quick scan of your knowledge of programs and applications.
For example include the following that is applicable to you:
Technical certifications
Hardware
Operating systems
Networking/protocols
Programming/languages
Web applications
Database applications
Highlight some of your soft skills in your career as a programmer to add a value to your resume. Remember that your resume should be short enough, yet should be able to effectively showcase your achievements. Do not make it excessively lengthy.
Highlight your Achievements
Show in your resume how your performance as a programmer favoured the company's good. Highlight your initiatives and performances that enhanced efficiency, faster work, monetary savings etc. Focus on your most impressive technical projects/achievements.
Keywords
Be sure to include all buzzwords and variants of such words within your Skills Section of your resume. This is important because many placement firms use automated software that scans your resume for particular skills or keywords that their clients specify.
For Example
The more effective presentation of 'Experience in web-development and the use of Structure Query Language with Databases' will be 'Web-Development experience with HTML, ASP and JSP. Proficiency with SQL, MySQL, Oracle and SQL'.
Some other examples of buzzwords are :
Proficiency with C++, Lisp and Corba.
Some experience using PHP for the development of secure web-applications.