That worked a treat, £500 awarded to lucky winner who found me a fun short contract.
Now I'd like another one, so I repeat the offer:
If, within the next six months, I take a job which lasts
longer than one month, and that is not obtained through an agency, then
on the day the first cheque from that job cashes, I'll give £500 to the
person who provided the crucial introduction.
If there are a number of people involved somehow, then I'll apportion it
fairly between them. And if the timing conditions above are not quite
met, or if someone points me at a short contract which the £500 penalty
makes not worth taking, then I'll do something fair and proportional
anyway. (The thing Simon pointed me at only lasted three weeks and I paid him in full anyway, because it was neat.)
And this offer applies even to personal friends, and to old contacts who
I have not got round to calling yet, and to people who are themselves
offering work, because why wouldn't it?
And obviously if I find one through my own efforts then I'll keep the
money. But my word is generally thought to be good, and I have made a
public promise on my own blog to this effect, so if I cheat you you can
blacken my name and ruin my reputation for honesty, which is worth much
more to me than £500.
Anyhow, my CV is at http://www.aspden.com, and any advice on how it could be improved will be gratefully received.
I'll also repeat the original advert: (job-hunt.contrib 1.0)
Anyone in Cambridge need a programmer? Obviously Clojure is a
speciality, and my current obsession, but I'm also pretty good with C
(especially the embedded variety), microcontrollers, and Python, and I
have a particular facility with mathematical concepts and algorithms of
all kinds. My obsessions can be pretty quickly changed when I need them
to be.
I have a (deserved) reputation for being able to produce heavily optimised but
nevertheless bug-free and readable code, but I also know how to hack
together sloppy, bug-ridden prototypes, and I know which style is
appropriate when, and how to slide along the continuum between them.
I've worked in telecoms, commercial research, banking, university
research, a chip design company, server virtualization, a couple of
startups, and occasionally completely alone.
I've worked on many sizes of machine. I've written programs for tiny
8-bit microcontrollers, and once upon a time every IBM machine in one
building in Imperial College was running my partial differential
equation solvers in parallel in the background.
I'm smart and I get things done. I'm confident enough in my own
abilities that if I can't do something I admit it and find someone who
can.
I also have various ancient and rusty skills with things like Java, C++,
R, OCaml, Common LISP, Scheme, FORTRAN and Pascal which can be brushed up
if necessary. Like all lispers, I occasionally write toy interpreters
for made-up languages for fun.
If you're a local company using Java, who might be interested in giving
Clojure a try (motivation here, in Paul Graham's classic Beating the Averages), I'd love to try to show you what all the fuss is about.
CV here if you're interested: http://www.aspden.com
I've never used a CV before, having always found work through word of
mouth. So I expect that it can be improved. If anyone's got any
suggestions as to how it could be better written, do please leave
comments or e-mail cv@aspden.com.
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