[sf-lug] Introducing Myself

[Jeff Bragg]

I definitely hear you on the HR block for lack of degree.  Like you, I'm
self-taught (though you seem to have gone well beyond my autodidacticism in
CS).  I burned out late in college, and have experience a similar bias in
hiring.  And in this market companies are being ridiculously choosy,
expecting degrees even for mind-numbing work like reception, and expecting
advanced degrees for development, and even ops jobs.

On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 10:09 AM, David Hinkle <hinkle at cipafilter.com>wrote:

>  My biggest problem is getting past the HR people.  I started programming
> when I was 13 and taught myself C++, Java, and html in high school.    I
> graduated near the height of the .com boom and skipped college for some
> great jobs that got my career started, but at my current level in the field
> getting through HR is a real pain without a degree.
>
>
>
> I don’t have any trouble when I finally get people on the phone, and I
> don’t have any trouble in my local community because I have an established
> reputation here, but the urban area here just isn’t dense enough to support
> much in the way of work at my level.
>
>
>
> That’s why I’m trying to connect with the Linux community directly from the
> San Francisco area.  I want to meet  some people that can put my talent and
> experience to good use.
>
>
> David
>
>
>
> *From:* sf-lug-bounces at linuxmafia.com [mailto:
> sf-lug-bounces at linuxmafia.com] *On Behalf Of *Jeff Bragg
> *Sent:* Monday, February 15, 2010 12:00 PM
> *To:* SF-LUG
>
> *Subject:* Re: [sf-lug] Introducing Myself
>
>
>
> Welcome, David.  I don't have any specific companies in mind, but with that
> set of skills I don't think you'll have too much problem finding a job
> (though in this market it may be a fight to get a decent salary).
>
> Best of luck.
>
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 8:27 AM, David Hinkle <hinkle at cipafilter.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I'm David Hinkle.  I'm a long time Linux user and professional software
> developer.  I host the Quad-City LUG every other month at the company who's
> product I created and currently manage (http://cipafilter.com).  We put
> together usually 20-30 members for meetings and have about 120 people on the
> mailing list.  I've also been involved in several open source projects and
> even released my own (http://bandwidthd.sf.net).
>
> I'm interested in moving to the San Francisco area and I wonder if anybody
> knows of some companies looking to hire an extremely experienced and
> sophisticated Linux developer.  I have over 12 years experience working with
> Linux software and am considered a guru here in the local community.   I
> specialize in network enabled and communication applications.   I have an
> understanding of Internet protocols down to the wire level and years of
> experience manipulating protocols such as HTTP.  My primary languages are C,
> PHP, bash, and Adobe Flex.
>
> Most of the C work I have done has been in the form of a multithreaded
> proxy server that manipulates the HTTP protocol in real time.   PHP, bash
> and Flex I've primarily used to write web front ends for embedded devices.
>
> Please let me know,
>
> David
> 309-314-5021
>
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> sf-lug mailing list
> sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
> http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
> Information about SF-LUG is at http://www.sf-lug.org/
>
>
>
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/attachments/20100215/83b43310/attachment.html>