Seldom without a computer of some sort since graduating from the University of British Columbia in 1978, I have been a full-time Linux user since 2005, a full-time Solaris and SunOS user from 1986 through 2005, and UNIX System V user before that.
On the technical side of things, I have spent a great deal of my career as a consultant, doing data analysis and visualization; especially spatial data analysis. I have a substantial amount of related programming experience, using C, awk, Java, Python, PostgreSQL, PostGIS and lately Groovy. I'm looking at Julia with great interest. I have also built a few desktop and web-based applications, primarily in Java and lately in Grails with lots of JavaScript on the front end and PostgreSQL as my database of choice.
Aside from that, I spend a considerable amount of time writing proposals, technical reports and - of course - stuff on https://www.opensource.com.
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Emily, thanks for this valuable and informative article! Always good to read ideas on improving the CV, because the CV can always be improved.
One other idea that I don't see mentioned - some of us, especially when we have reached an advanced age and attained commensurate experience (smile) often have several different careers under our belt. Generally I've tried to address my personal situation with separate CVs, each oriented toward a particular theme. Any thoughts on that?
Again, thanks for the great article!
Thanks Alan, very kind!
I sort of want a bunch of these little guys around the house to do various things but that's a future project... and maybe with Raspberry Pi boxes instead.