Software Engineer Resume

The resume of a software engineer should clearly reflect the technical skills. To accomplish this, include technical expertise and technical summary sections into your resume. Further break these sections into small subcategories, so that an employer feels it simple and easy to scan your knowledge of programs and applications. Generally, a software engineer's resume have a very simple format. The way to write an effective resume is to put yourself into the head of potential employer or human resource recruiter. Put a strong emphasis on your goals in the software field, including parts of your background to demonstrate them. Following are certain points that a software engineer must include in the resume. Hardware Technical certifications Networking/protocols Operating systems Web applications Programming/languages Database applications

Sample Software Engineer Resume

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

Objective

A challenging position as a Software Engineer and the possibility of career advancement.

Keywords

UNIX, C, C++, Visual Basic, Solaris, M68000 Development, SGI, DEC, VAX, System Servers, Intel 8086 Assembler, VMS, MS/DOS, Pascal, LISP, FORTRAN, Basic, Macro-II. ClearCase, HMS, TeamWare, SCCS, RCS.

Employment History

1997 - Present
Engineer
Arteck Industries, Scranton, PA

Worked on product planning and prototyping. Set up firewall and LAN consisting of Linux and Windows machines. Set up Linux web server running Apache, and wrote Perl code to run on the server.

1993 - 1997
Software Engineer
Java Systems, Harrisburg, PA

Created web sites and documentation, using HTML, to manage various projects. Wrote design document, test plan, and user documentation. Enhanced HP-UX C library functions, such as setmntent, for reliable shared access to the mount table. Developed a new libc function, delmntent, and fixed defects in other functions. Work done in C and UNIX using ClearCase.

Education

B.A. Computer Science, 1993
University of Richmond, Richmond, VA