From: John Costella Subject: JOB-WANTED: Shameless Australian self-promotion :-) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 1996 13:22:14 +1100 (EETDT) From: John Costella Regular readers here may recall my attempts in recent months to have the University of Melbourne's forays into virtual reality technology organised and coordinated in a sensible way. It is not yet clear whether this will be done, nor who will be involved in this administration. Most importantly, it is not clear whether there is a position here for me. The wheels of bureaucracy turn very slowly. So I am considering all options, and have put myself on the job market. I am prepared to travel; English-speaking countries are strongly preferred. I've included a generic version of my cover letter and CV below. If you think that your company could make good use of my skills, please don't hesitate to drop me a line. ===================================================================== Dr John P. Costella School of Physics, The University of Melbourne mailto:jpc@physics.unimelb.edu.au http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~jpc Phone: +61 3 9344-5435 Home: +61 3 9768-9268 Fax: +61 3 9347-4783 ===================================================================== Dear Sir or Madam, I would like to apply for employment with your company. I have attached a digital copy of my Curriculum Vitae to the end of this mail. My background is broad and varied. I have degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Science, and my Ph.D. is in Theoretical Particle Physics. I seek a full-time programming, analyst or technical writing position, in the fields of graphics, simulation, virtual reality, or document processing systems. I am presently employed as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne, where my job is to investigate areas of research in Theoretical Physics by analytical and computational means. I also lecture courses on Digital Systems, and the LaTeX document processing system. While studying for my Engineering degree, I was employed by IBM, as a Systems Engineering and Marketing Assistant. I have developed several successful home-business programming-based enterprises over and above my academic pursuits. The common thread is my quest for excellence. I invite you to take a glance at my home page, which contains a selection of my work from the past few years. The topics under consideration there may be of interest to you; at any rate, you may gather that I take pride in ensuring that all of my work is highly original, expertly executed, and brought to as complete and as perfect a finish as can be achieved. I have also put together a more convenient MS-DOS demonstration of two of my better-known public domain software packages, one written in the tightly constrained LaTeX macro language, and the other in highly structured and object-oriented ANSI C. The file is located at http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~jpc/costella.zip. Unfortunately, neither package is graphically-oriented; the code for my home-business graphical application is not released. I seek a position that requires a high degree of initiative and lateral thinking, yet seeks to create products with a concrete benefit in the real world; for which self-motivation and self- guidance are crucial, but for which coordination and integration with a team of similarly motivated individuals are of paramount importance. My outlook and experience are broad; my ability to focus my talents on a specific goal is demonstrable. I look forward to hearing what exciting employment opportunities can be offered by your company. Sincerely, John P. Costella, Ph.D. ===================================================================== Dr John P. Costella School of Physics, The University of Melbourne mailto:jpc@physics.unimelb.edu.au http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~jpc Phone: +61 3 9344-5435 Home: +61 3 9768-9268 Fax: +61 3 9347-4783 ===================================================================== C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E =============================== Personal Data ============= Name: John Paul Costella, Ph.D. Date of Birth: September 24, 1966 Place of Birth: East Melbourne, Australia Citizenship: Australian Address ======= Home: 1 Outlook Drive, Berwick, Victoria 3806, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9768-9268 Work: Theoretical Particle Physics Group, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. Tel: +61 3 9344-5435 Fax: +61 3 9347-4783 E-mail: jpc@physics.unimelb.edu.au WWW: http://www.ph.unimelb.edu.au/~jpc Academic Qualifications ======================= High School: Higher School Certificate (Year 12), Australia St. Kevin's College, Toorak, Melbourne, 1984 Awarded Dux (top student) of the College Engineering: Bachelor of Engineering With Honours (Electrical, Electronic and Computer Engineering) The University of Melbourne, 1989 Awarded Dux of the Faculty of Engineering Science: Bachelor of Science With Honours (Physics) The University of Melbourne, 1990 Awarded Dux of the School of Physics Doctorate: Doctor of Philosophy The University of Melbourne, June 1994 Thesis: "Single-Particle Electrodynamics" Awarded February 1995; Conferred October 1995 Employment ========== Academic: Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Lecturer, 1994- School of Physics, The University of Melbourne Consultant: Personal Computing Consultant, 1994- Home business, serving the local area Consultant: World Wide Web page creation consultant, 1995- Serving departments of the University of Melbourne Overseas: Visiting Postgraduate Scholar, May-June 1992 Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington Seattle, Washington, USA Graphics: Cross-stitch Embroidery Image Creation, 1990-1994 Self-developed software system, home business IBM: Summer employment (13 weeks each year), 1987-1990 Systems Engineering and Marketing assistant Tutoring: Visiting tutor to high school students, 1983-1988 Tutoring Year 7-12 in Mathematics and Sciences Computer Languages ================== C++, C, Pascal, HTML, FORTRAN, Assembler (6502, 80x86), LaTeX macro language, MS-DOS batch files and Unix scripts Operating Systems ================= MS Windows (expert), MS-DOS (expert), OS/2 (proficient), Unix (proficient) Professional Interests ====================== Virtual Reality: Wide knowledge of current and historical systems Active participant in newsgroup sci.virtual-worlds Author of several technical and theoretical papers Graphics: Deep interest and involvment since Apple II days Desire to find innovative applications Special interest in algorithms and optimisation Science: Broad interest in all areas of science Theoretical physics pursued to postdoctoral level Mathematics: Interest in pure mathematics, outstanding puzzles Application of mathematics to computing Personal Interests ================== Gym weight training; Australian Football; Cricket; Ten-Pin Bowling Professional References ======================= Professor Bruce H. J. McKellar, Dean of Science, Professor of Theoretical Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. (mckellar@physics.unimelb.edu.au) Professor Gerard J. Stephenson, Jr., Department of Physics and Astronomy, The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico 97131, USA. (gjs@hepv1.phys.unm.edu) Professor Geoffrey I. Opat, Professor of Experimental Physics, School of Physics, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3052, Australia. (opat@physics.unimelb.edu.au) Mr Jack Verdins, IBM Australia Ltd, 60 City Road, South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, Australia. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: 2.6.2i iQCVAgUBMRA8WGrlpFIGn9BdAQEOwgP/T/lm5W+xUeQuJ8Uv8U/a4vnKw2ONeuVq Br/cptEqhZ2aRrWAMjssSIiEmwbolnNF3s2qXsodft7UW0+3MgLs0+6R5WLlCUBu rV6+E2rh8y0/gGZqLrHcQyUzLe52W1q99aNBkbHnxBMtfnl2GCLVrRPeCnS3Y/sD 7toT9ypsazI= =6rSr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----