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2008-06-30T13:40:00.000-07:00

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Jairo Maldonado
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San Jacinto, sector 2, calle 1, casa 11
Maracaibo, Zulia, Venezuela
Cell-phone: 0424-0000000

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COVER LETTER

2008-06-23T14:00:00.000-07:00

Hi friends! Remember my dream job? I really liked it and I want to apply for it, so I wrote a cover letter for the company.

June, 16th 2008
james jones
Manager of Human Resources
Rearden Commerce
Foster City, CA

Dear Mr. Jones

I am writing to introduce myself to you as a student of computer engineering . I consider that my credentials and interesting knowledge are very good for your requirement.I will be able to create a Software where the improvement of your company is going to be better than now. Now I´m almost graduating from computer engineering but I have been working with computer programs for all my life, I can do whatever you want that I do by computer. I can direct, manage & support programs to attract all the people to your company.I would appreciate the opportunity to discuss how my education and experience will be helpful to you. I will be contacting you later by cell phone to discuss about the possibility of arranging an interview. Thank you for your time and consideration.

Looking for a job!

2008-06-23T07:23:00.000-07:00

The last class we learned how searche a job by Internet. The only things that you need are:
ask yourself this question:

- What do you want to do? What can you do?
- Next, go to Yahoo Hot Jobs or Monster.com and try to located a job you'd like to have. For example I selected this job:

I was looking a job on Yahoo hot-Job And I choose a Software Engineer: Rearden Commerce. Because I study that area and I like it and I want to be good with all relationated with computers

Software Engineer: Rearden Commerce

Job ID: 2008-1154
Company Name: Rearden Commerce
Job Category: Technology; Technology
Location: Foster City, CA
Position Type: Full-Time, Employee
Experience: Unspecified
Date Posted: June 10, 2008 (Reposted Jun 17)

Overview

Rearden Commerce is a pre-IPO, well funded company in Foster City, California. The Rearden Personal Assistant makes life simpler by intuitively managing the everyday details of business and personal life. Just like a seasoned executive assistant, the Rearden Personal Assistant handles an impressive array of tasks and services, and delights users by considering their unique needs and personal preferences. The internet application is built on the Rearden Commerce Platform, which supports the world's largest ecosystem of more than 137,000 trusted merchants and third-party applications providers. Today, more than one million contracted users at organizations ranging from the Fortune 500 to small/medium enterprises, including ConAgra Foods, Glaxo Smith Kline and JDSU, rely on the intelligent recommendations and personalized assistance of the Rearden Personal Assistant to save time and be more efficient, while saving their companies money.

Responsibilities:

The primary responsibility of this position is to work on the customer facing corporate site utilizing Javascript, AJAX and DHTML. Your role will be to develop core components of Rearden Commerce's Web-based services marketplace platform. As a contributor in the engineering organization, you will own the architecture, design, and implementation of these components and will be responsible for delivering new capabilities. The success of this position will be measured by the quality, timeliness, and depth of the designs and code produced. You will have the autonomy and responsibility for the following:

- Design and implement key services within the Rearden Commerce platform.

- Ensure that designs meet all functional and non-functional requirements.

- Write automated unit and component tests to guarantee the quality of the product.

- Partner with product management to set the direction of the platform.

- Collaborate with QA, Operations, Support, and Service Delivery teams to meet service quality and time to market goals.

- Contribute to a culture of innovation and quality across the engineering organization.

Qualifications:

- Acute technical competence with a track record of strong coding and individual technical accomplishments.

- Experience building enterprise scale products for a major software vendor. Internet and e-commerce products experience is a plus.

- Java development skills and object oriented design experience, including working knowledge of core libraries and design patterns.

- Experience of e-commerce systems doing web based transactions, including workflow engines, object relational frameworks, message-oriented middleware, and XML web services.

- Keen understanding of database design and SQL, particularly Oracle and MySQL.

- BS/BA in Computer Science or related.

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Alfredo´s Interview

2008-06-02T07:42:00.000-07:00

Alfredo think thah engineer is the person that design, makes or work with machinery and he likes the design, makes or work with machinery also to manage a group of workers and deal or succeed in doing or producing something. To start to study engineering he need to be good at math, also he need to have management skills in order to be a good engineer and the skills he need to have in order to be a good engineer is to creative and find the perfect solution to every problem. He want to get graduate and find a good job and well pay but He would like to have a job where He can put in practice and develop as a person as a professional. He enjoyed english classes a lot and he liked when he took his degrees. He recommend engineering because he could work in different position in a company depending on your personal skills and is a great profession and he think thah The most difficult part of being an engineering student is making sacrifices like studying all night in order to have good grades.

Unit 1 , using dictionary

2008-05-26T08:05:00.000-07:00

University of Washington Computer Science & Engineering includes roughly fifty faculty members, fifty staff members, three hundred graduate majors (165 in the Doctoral program and 135 in the Professional Masters Program), and five hundred undergraduate majors (160 graduates per year). Ranked among the top ten programs in the nation, we are active in most of the principal areas of the field, and are engaged in a broad range of interdisciplinary initiatives. We are located in the spectacular new Paul G. Allen Center for Computer Science & Engineering at the center of the UW campus in Seattle, Washington— a national and international technology center in software, biotech, the health sciences, and other fields.

New Words:

roughly: Imprecise but fairly close to correct, is a word that mean about a cuantitive and some numbers approximately.
Synonyms: approximately, about, close to, just about, some, more or less, around, or so

Interdisciplinary: drawing from or characterized by participation of two or more fields of study. Person that participate in two or more fields.

I think that the parragraph was publicated by the people know more about the University of Washington and know how all about the numbers of people that are relationated with this university, I liked very much because I didn´t know this university and the estructure

Questions

2008-05-26T07:29:00.000-07:00

1. Could you please define Engineering in your own words?
A: Engineering is a career where you have to be aplicated, and know very much about number and mathematics.

2. What influenced you to pursue Computer Engineering?
A: I always liked the computers, the computers programs and the mathematics, so I decided to study a career where I could do all what I want.

3. Could you please describe the educational process required to become an Engineer?
A: First, you have to take a test where you have to decide what is the career that you want to study, then you have to register in the career, after you starts, you have to be very responsable and have a good grades.

4. What are the skills you need to be a good engineer?
A: You have to be very responsable, know how to resolve a problem lonely and in group, know very much about computers and numbers too.

5. What job considerations were you looking for after you completed your education?
A: Work in my own company where I can do all the things what I have learned from the university.

6. What's something of your school life that you enjoy the most?
A: Getting good grades in English and in Mathematics too.

7. From your perspective, what is the most difficult part of being an engineering student?
A: There are a lot of hard things that you have to do, you have to study very much and be very good with numbers.

8. What are your plans for the future?
A: I want to graduate with good grade, and then I want to go to live to Canada and work there.

9. Point out your most personally gratifying moment in Engineering school.
A: When I passed geometry and fisica.

10. Why would you recommend Engineering as a career?
A: Because it is a career where you learn, numbers, professional and individual skills, environment works. In my opinion Engineering is a complete career that you have to be very creative.

My classmates

2008-05-19T07:49:00.000-07:00

I´m going to introduce my classmates. Alfredo Figuera is the guy next to me, he is 24 years old and he is studing Industrial engineering at URBE, he love soccer and his favorite team is manchester united and he want to be a good engineer and live in england with his family. the other guy is Jorge Besson and he is 24 years old and he studies Industrial engineering at URBE, he love soccer and his favorite team is Real Madrid but the most interesting thing for him is drink, smoke and go out with his friends.

My Blog

2008-05-19T07:30:00.000-07:00

Hi, My name is Jairo Maldonado, I´m from Maracaibo, originally, i live in Maracaibo, in San Jacinto. I´m 18 years old and I study engineering at urbe.

I love music, dancing, playing basket, surfing the net, talking on the phone with my friends, pizza, go out on weekends and drink beer.

I hate go to class, smoking, listening rock, getting up early, war, washing my clothes and washing the dishes.

My dream is to travel to paris, visit the eiffel tower. I want to graduate from engineering and be a good engineer. I also want to learn to speak French and Italian. I´d love to buy a house, a car and have my own company.

About English, I love to talk with other people but I don´t like to read very much, I listen music and watch sports program in english. I can write well but I think thah I have ti practice more.