These summaries are not my own. They are examples of professional summaries that came from http://Hired.com. I think they provide a great template format that can be applied to various industries. I transcribed them for reference and documentation purposes only. Specifically, I have found over the years, that the way program development approaches the construction of digital applications, often utilize methods that can be applied to other industries.

1. Subject: Professional Summary Examples
Author: Various ­ Hired.com
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Summary 1
What I have accomplished?
I currently work for a small company that makes a big difference by improving the state of
modern medicine; we help hospital groups improve patient outcomes for a wide range of
surgeries, with a primary focus on cardiovascular (CV) surgery. I started there fresh out of
college about 19 months ago, and I’ve already made huge contributions.
● My first project was to enhance the UI/UX of a legacy CV surgery risk calculator web app
used by tens of thousands of patients, physicians and surgeons every month with smart,
modern features.
● Next, I worked with the team on our industry­leading analytics platform to add the ability to
generate reports from data collected using our competitor's software, driving sales by
making it easy to demonstrate the value we provide versus that of our rivals
● Seeing the importance of real time dat, I became the lead engineer on a new initiative to
stream data directly from hospital registration systems as patients are admitted; this
system now processes > 10,00 messages per day and is being used as a model for
other applications in the company to follow
Buzzwords
In my nascent professional career, I have written mostly Java/Spring applications which include
a generous portion of Javascript, and a smattering of Groovy and Ruby applications. The real
time hospital data streams I mentioned above are collected by a server developed on Node.js in
CoffeeScript, passed on to an ActiveMQ queue, before being stored in an EAV schema
PostgreSQL database and further processed in Java. In School I wrote a lot of C++, Java, and
C, with some Python, and Scala plus several other languages/platforms for one­off projects.
Despite disliking the word, I love the ‘cloud’ ­ I’m talking laaS and PaaS. I’ve used Google App
Engine for school and personal projects and AWS EC2 for a school project, both were awesome
and i’d love to work with them again.
What do you have for me?
I am looking for the next place I can make a significant contribution. Oi especially would like to
tackle larger problems, of scaling up to millions of users and the like. My favorite thing to do in my
spare time is learn. Thus, I am a quick learner and I’m able to rapidly get up to speed in a new
environment. I have a special place in my heart for networking and the web, and would love to
work on problems at a large scale. ’m a down­to­earth dude who is passionate about technology,
loves a good technical conversation, and i’M anxious to work with others like me.
So now I ask you, my potential employer, what would you have me work on next?

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Author: Various ­ Hired.com
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Summary 2
I live in New York, and I love writing code.
The past
I’ve been programming in some form since I was 11 years old. At University of Maryland I gained
a strong foundation in computer science theory in addition to experience in actual software
development through several internships, side projects, and a couple entrepreneurial endeavors.
i also pitched for the club baseball team and was president of my fraternity.
The more recent past
For the last three year since graduating, I’ve been in the financial services industry working on
fixed income analysis and equities applications. At Knight Capital, I’m currently in charge of
creating a web version of our front­end application (Knight Direct), while continuing to develop
and support our critical order/execution management servers through which hundreds of millions
of shares are traded each day.
Side project
On the side, I’ve been developing an interactive HTML/JS table with a simple powerful API and
the ability to handle large data sets. It’s called aTable (because it’s...a table), and the first version
will probably be released this week.
https://github.com/jwoah12/aTable
The future
I’m looking to move from the world of finance back into the world of software. While I’ve certainly
been working on interesting and challenging projects over the last three years ,it has become
very apparent that I’m not 100% happy with my situation. I want to be part of the software culture.
I want to be able to use new (or old) technologies if that are the right tool for the job. I want to
have opportunities to develop my skills and learn new ones. I want to work for a company that
understands that developers may not be most productive when held to a rigid 8:30­6:30 work day
(and in general just understands developers). Most of all, I want to be part of a strong team
working toward a clear vision that I can be passionate about.
The cliff notes
I really do love programming and I especially enjoy working with full stack. While I write mostly
Java and Javascript at work currently, I’ve spent various stretches in the past working in full
stack. While I write mostly Java and Javascript at work currently, I’ve spent various stretches in
the past working in C#, Perl, and C++. on my own time, I’ve recently worked with Nodes.js,
backbone, handlebars and other template libraries, and Mongodb (a little). i also enjoy learning
new technologies, and I tend to pick them up very quickly. I’d prefer to stay in New York, but
would entertain offers in other places as well.