Resume Cover Letter

Nickey C. Shin
(Due to the high profile projects I have worked on, I have taken my home address and phone number off these pages.)
http://estss.com/NCS/
nshin@estss.com

Thank you for taking the time to read this.

First, a little bit about myself before going into the type of work I am interested in.

My skills covers a broad range of disciplines in the computer and electronic arena. I have graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (May 1998), majoring in electrical engineering and minoring in computer science. I have a well rounded education in the complex field of hardware and software technologies. I figure you can not have just the hardware knowledge with out software and vice versa.

I have a passion for electronics. It is exciting how a box of wires and chips put together can bring so much joy to the people using them. Most of the projects I have worked on reflects my enthusiasm and interest in electronics and computers.

As you read through my resume, you will see that I am experienced in many different skills and the work years to go with it. I like to have fun with what I am working on. But I also like to see what today's technologies can be pushed to.

Now, the kinds of work I AM looking for (position titles are meaningless): A challenging and fun project.

My knowledge in hardware design makes embedded systems my field of expertise. I am interested in starting from the research and development phase; learning the new technology; to implementing them. I enjoy working with advanced technologies that challenge my skills. Coding projects and hardware design are my favorite areas. Projects requiring data acquisition (real world data input - manually or automatically), data display (GUI) and data communications (networking or other methods) are my primary interests.

Offers I am NOT looking for: Do not call me if the job is for a tech support monkey position, a lab (maintenance) baby sitter or a tester position (where the fun work has already been completed). But, if there are needs for solutions in designing the lab infrastructure or there are needs for designing new testing applications, then I "might" consider the offer.

Although I have authored many web sites - I would prefer to only write cgi scripts or server-side generated pages (Perl, PHP, C, etc) and/or client-side created pages (JavaScript, AJAX, etc.). Writing static web pages are boring. Also, I do not want a (tech) documentation writing offer. Again, those are boring. I will only write documentation on projects that I have been involved with from the beginning.

Do NOT contact me about joining your resume search engine either. All of those requests will be ignored.

Please DO include a description of the offer when you contact me about your enquiry. Offers that are not specific will result in longer reply delays.

Thank you again for taking the time to read this letter.
Have a Nice Day!

Nick Shin - nshin@estss.com