As a hiring manager who has hired multiple engineers from these threads, here are some suggestions for everyone posting to this thread.
* For the location, please put the name of a place on the map, not a timezone. Different physical locations have different employment regulations, which does have a bearing on my ability to hire you.
* Please learn the HN formatting guidelines (<a href=") and make your messages easy to read. In particular, you will need blank lines between each paragraph. Question for dang - given that this is a common mistake, is it worth changing the suggested format to include the blank lines?
* If you post the link to a PDF Résumé, please name the file with your name. You most likely will only have one resume, but the Hiring Manager has to download many resume.pdf files and distinguish between them.