Tom Swiss, Unix Software Developer

Thank you for your interest in my software design and development skills. Here you will find the following:

• Current employment status and preferences. It will save everyone time if you read this before you contact me.
• Resume for Tom Swiss. (Click here for resume by itself in one frame.)
• Resume in plain text and Rich Text Format (RTF), for importing into word processing software. Also PostScript and PDF format, for easy printing. (These versions may not be fully up-to-date. Microsoft Word or other proprietary formats not available. If needed, please import the HTML or RTF version into your software.)
• The meaning of Unix software development vs. Unix systems administration
• Statement on the use of chemical drug screens
• Recruiter and resume bank "Hall Of Shame"

Please note that I am not the "Tom Swiss" behind the "Adblock Pro" shareware. (Since that person's page at blogger.com is in Chinese, I doubt that "Tom Swiss" is his or her actual name.) Not that I object to ad blocking software - I just wouldn't be caught dead writing an extension for Internet Explorer, or indeed anything meant to run on a Microsoft platform.

While the market for skilled computer professionals has slowed recently, I am still contacted by technical recrutiters fairly frequently. It's nice to be wanted, but it gets difficult to keep in touch with people. Therefore, to save time and effort for both recruiters and myself, I have created these pages to give you futher information about my skills and job status. Feel free to bookmark this page and check back whenever you have a relevant position to fill.

If you have an interesting job opportunity, or any additional questions, please contact me at tms at infamous.net.

If you would like to be added to a list of recruiters I will contact when I'm in the job market, please send mail to jobsearch at infamous.net.

E-mail is much more likely to be returned than unsolicited telephone calls, since it's often difficult to carry on a private phone conversation about looking for a new job from the office of your current job.

You may - or may not - be interested in some of my other ventures:

• Warrior Poet Consulting, providing consulting, coaching, and training to develop skills for creativity and personal excellence;
• EarthTouch Shiatsu, providing acupressure and shiatsu therapy to clients in the Baltimore area; and
• Catonsville Seido Karate, karate training for self-development, self-defense, and physical fitness.