Independent Contractor Resume

Pursuing a contract in the market of Information Technology can be a difficult task. Each time you have to compete against a mob of other contractors while applying for the job of independent contractor.

Thus it should be necessary to mention all your qualifications, skills and experience in a well organized format to grab the attention of employer.

Also don't forget to mention your contact information including your name, address, email id and phone no. So that if the employer would like your resume and want to contact you.

Sample Independent Contractor Resume

Richard Anderson
1234, West 67 Street,
Carlisle, MA 01741,
(123)-456 7890.

Education:

University of California State
BS Computer Science

Work Experience:

WorldSpace Satellite Radio (Norwalk, CA)
Independent Contractor - Senior Technical Consultant
June 2005 - Present

Carrying out billing system integration of Portal Infranet 6.5FP3.
Developed 8 custom opcodes that are known as data managers and applying the redeemed gift cards as new payment types. Other opcodes include credit card, adhoc gift card and direct debit payments despite of the default payment type of customer.
Designed and developed Data Managers coding for real-time gift card validation to communicate with prepaid card vendor using XML messaging.
Authored design specifications, required documents and unit test plans.
Implemented models for the account creation tools that are used by CSR.
Analyzed data to find and fix the memory leaks, performed purified builds of custom code.
Written utility scripts and automated test scripts to restore and dump the database.
Developed a custom application for purified data manager testing.

T-System/Era-PTC (Pioneer, CA)
Independent Contractor - Senior Technical Consultant
April 2004 - August 2004

Carrying out billing system integration of Portal Infranet 6.5FP3, Tibco, BSCS, and BMP.
Authored Design and Functional Specifications.
Provided skilled knowledge about Portal Infranet that includes: Designing and implementation of data managers and custom opcodes, extending the infranet datamodel.
Developed Price Plans for Era's Products.
Carry out Event post-rating policy customizations.
Provided training to the team members on Infranet API, Pricing configurations, and focused on preventing cm core dumps, on trouble-shooting pointer errors.
Developed Event Loader templates for loading prepaid SMS/MMS/GPRS CDR's from BMP.
Performed integration tests, and adjust the system for performance.

Other Computer related interests

Digital Image Processing, Audio Processing/Compression/Streaming, Freeware Java Runtime Environment development, Genetic Algorithms, Web Server Programming/Development, Web Client Programming/Development.

Current Personal Projects

The AbC-lounge http://abc-lounge.com
The Sony C1 Technical Homepage and mailing list http://list.xyz.com/c1-info/
The Talent Programmers http://www.talent.com

Non-Computer Related Interests

DJ-ing, Audio Production, International Travel, Foreign Languages, Linguistics, Secondary Language Transfer Research, Hiking, Video Production, Acting, Camping.

Foreign Languages

Began Russian, Polish, Italian and Greek, Intermediate German and Japanese.