Easy money: Find me a new job, get $1000

post by Andrew_Taskify · 2011-08-12T13:03:27.106Z · LW · GW · Legacy · 9 comments

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I normally post under a different name, which you can find by looking at my posting history, specifically, this thread.  I need to keep the search somewhat secret, so I'm adding a trivial barrier to identifying me.

Anyway, I haven't been very good at job searches, and I have spare money, so I figured I'd just outsource the effort (in parallel with my own continuing efforts, of course).  In theory, this shouldn't even be difficult, because I'm already employed, very well, in my area of expertise, and have been for over six years, and am only trying to switch because I can't stand my current city.  (And a sense that I could be making more of my potential.)

But practice is different, and that's where you come in.  Here's the deal: If you find me a job matching my skills and qualifications (and located per the next paragraph), and I'm there for a month, you get $1000.  And to avoid making it an all-or-nothing deal, if you just get me to the interview stage, you get $100.  You already know me from my posts here, so if you know someone who could use me, please connect the two of us.

I would like for it to be in (in decreasing order of preference) Austin, Houston, NYC, or San Francisco, or at least allow me to live there while earning income from the job.  However, any city with a LW community is fine as long as you clear it with me first.

So, here are my skill and qualifications (resume file available, just PM or email me):

- Visual Studio with C++, C#, and Visual Web Developer; MATLAB programming, including Simulink and digital signal processing; finite-element modeling with MSC Patran and Nastran (and augmented by MATLAB); MathCAD; Mathematica; passed Fundamentals of Engineering Exam, earning EIT (Engineer-in-Training) license; perfect scores on GRE analytical and quantitative.

In my six years as an aerospace engineer, I:

- Created and refined finite element models (FEMs) of aircraft (pre- and post-modification) to predict structural response to loading; used both Patran and, at times, MATLAB, to create these models, and Nastran to compute their output.

- Participated in monitoring flight test telemetry for anomalous readings, compared test results to our aircraft FEMs to determine model accuracy, and updated parameters and assumptions to best account for such data.

- Wrote MATLAB software packages to automate the process of analyzing digital signals representing aircraft state and airframe vibrations and presenting relevant plots.

- Performed hand analysis of processed model results to do “sanity checks” of the model and to infer more detailed information about subsystems, such as their margins of safety.

- Programmed intranet database websites with Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Web Developer.

- Refactored colleagues' code to optimize for readability, robustness, and minimal dependencies.

- Constructed mass models of aircraft, tracking changes in weight and c.g. from payload and fuel configurations, and deriving new distributions of masses to reconcile with known data.

 

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Also, the job doesn't necessarily have to be in engineering.  I'm interested in shifting to software development, but my experience so far is with scripts rather than full application development.  I would be happy with some kind of apprenticeship arrangement to someone who makes money as a freelance developer.

 

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