>It looks pretty reasonable and descriptive to me.  You seem to focus
>on "product design" without specifying what you mean by that.  The
>rest of the resume suggests you do electrical/electronic engineering
>and mechanical engineering so you may want to place those phrases
>somewhere on your resume.

I have had a quick scan of it, and would agree with this. But there are some 
areas that would worry me. All the hobbies listed are 'work related' - what 
do you do outside this? Often looked at to see if you have other useful 
skills, such as leadership of a group, or expertise outside the specific 
skill set advertised for.

>Also, you focus on a wide variety of skills, such as project
>management, procurement, design, etc.  This is valuable in small
>companies, and for certain projects in large companies, but you may
>find that it suggests Jack-of-all-trades, Expert-of-none.  In other
>words, it's not very tightly focused, and by comparison many other job
>seekers will appear a better fit for a specific job, even though you
>may be more expert for a given position.

Also you list what appear to be two companies or businesses that you are 
involved with. What will happen with them if you do get to take up a job 
offer? You specifically list yourself as owner of them, so what happens to 
the business if you get employed, do they get sold off, closed, go dormant, 
or are they a possible leak of IP from the new employer?

>If you are finding that the resume isn't being picked up by anyone
>then it suggests that the resume doesn't fit the types of jobs you're
>applying for.  We might be able to give you better suggestions if you
>tell us the jobs you're looking for.
>
>I've found that crafting my resume to highlight those things that are
>spoken of in the actual job offer gets much better response.  That
>means sending and tracking customized resumes per job prospect,
>though, which is a bit of work, but it's worth it if it means you find
>the perfect fit between your experience and the employer's needs.

This is what I have heard too.

>I have a very long resume - customizing it means highlighting relevant
>experience by removing sections, descriptions, skills and experience
>that aren't relevant, leaving a much shorter, but more highly
>focussed, resume.

This is what I would do with the bits about ownership of the two businesses 
I mentioned above. Also the parts about 'developed strong business 
relationships with off shore plastic injection mold suppliers' - again could 
you be looking to undermine something your prospective employer already 
does? This could be mentioned as part of an interview to show you know what 
is required at this part of new product gestation.

Also 'Introduced microprocessors into the industrial automation control 
industry ...' - the way the paragraph is worded it sounds like you did it 
single handed with no-one else in the industry doing it, when I suspect it 
was really as part of a team at your then employer. Perhaps the paragraph 
should start 'Involved with the introduction ...' etc.


>At large companies you often have the HR person (or worse, a database
>search such as used by Microsoft) that culls the resumes before
>sending the best prospects on to the hiring manager.  They know
>nothing about the reality of the job, only what the job description
>and requirements say, and what your resume says.  If it doesn't match
>very closely to the requirements and description, the person who makes
>the decision won't even see the resume.

And as part of this, I have seen it suggested that rather than including 
just acronyms (like FPGA) include the full word sequence from which that 
acronym is derived, as the filtering software may have one, but not the 
other. I see you include 'digital phase locked loop', but have 'PLL' - you 
may also want 'DPLL'

I would also drop a lot of the company names from the document presented to 
prospective employers. Some name dropping of them during a verbal interview 
may be more appropriate when mentioning specific projects that you want to 
use as examples of work done.

Good luck!

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