Hi Oots,
Thanks for your message. I am still on the market. I actually just completed a new, generic cover letter for web dev positions which reflects my current interests and abilities fairly well; let me paste it here as well as a link to my up-to-date resume.
Since yours is a solutions architect role, I should also add that I have extensive experience managing projects as a client-facing subject-matter expert, that I typically built strong partnerships and that my management team typically received effusive praise from clients of mine who had never had such a transparent or effective project management experience. That is why I initially began searching for work as a sales architect.
To the recruiting team seeking a developer,
I am an experienced software consultant and self-taught, inventive programmer seeking a career transition to a position as a full stack software developer. I currently work for Berklee College of Music where I have developed about eight major innovations that have replaced out-of-date, skunkworks projects with polished, user-friendly JavaScript, running on cloud services (Google Apps Script and Entrinsik Informer) already used across our enterprise. Prior to joining Berklee, I worked for two years at PeopleFluent, a web-based SaaS firm where I implemented data-intensive compensation, performance assessment, and recruiting solutions for a high volume of key clients.
Those who have worked with me know me as a problem-solving dynamo. An example of this is how I have expanded my JavaScript abilities from where they had rested at PeopleFluent, to where they rest now. Two years ago, I was able to debug simple problems, write simple arithmetic expressions for compensation dashboards, and little else; today, I have written modular programs consisting of multiple scripts which act in parallel to help my team solve complex problems or save time.
With respect to my many mentors, self-teaching has helped me achieve breakthroughs like never before, especially in recent years. I believe I have now reached a turning point where self-teaching is now a limit to my growth. Software development is already essentially my full-time occupation; now I want to join a development team as the least capable person in the room in order to continue what I have experienced as a time of explosive growth.
Please consider this application for a position of junior full-stack developer, if your workplace culture is one where curiosity and initiative are sought-after qualities, or where clean, well-documented, best-practice code are seen as key to developer success. Please review my attached resume to learn more about me, and I may be reached at [email protected] or by phone at 502-286-9236 if you would like to speak.
Kindly,
Ben