Résumé
Markdown -> PDF, HTML, and more http://github.com/mwhite/resume
Interests
- Creating beautiful resumés from simple Markdown documents
Work Experience
Word Processor (Redmond, WA)
Junior Resumé Maker, 2006 - 2007
- Intermingled presentation and content
- Styling was a pain, so either didn’t do it or found a half-decent template and didn’t mess with it
\LaTeX\ + pdflatex
Senior Resumé Maker, 2008 - 2010
- Edited verbose \LaTeX\ documents in a text editor
- Mixed content and presentation to achieve pixel-perfection
- Installed and configured the unusual TeX setups required by the best-looking \LaTeX\ resumés
LinkedIn, StackOverflow Careers, vizualize.me, etc
Web Resumé Intern, August 2010
- Entered data, adapting to different data models and formatting limitations
- Attempted to customize PDF exports and remove default resumé elements, to no avail
Markdown with Pandoc
Resumé Architect, February 2011 - present
- Write in one format (Markdown), convert to many formats (PDF, HTML, ODT, DOCX, and more)
- Style HTML output with CSS and PDF output with a custom \LaTeX\ header
- Use a simple pre-processor to define per-format operations on the Markdown input or its parts, such as moving contact information to the top right of the page in both HTML and PDF output.
- Use a text-based resumé when needed in a pinch
- Use version control, including free hosting on Github
Education
Github University (World Wide Web)
B.S. in Submodules, May 2012
Skills
Very experienced with Python, Markdown, \LaTeX
Familiar with GNU Make, bash