reformatting resume is a big job

I have been sharpening my Microsoft Word skills by cleaning up the formatting and layout of my resume.

I have been working as a software developer for quite a long while. A dozen or more years each as both an employee and a consultant. So, yes - it is long.

I think this is the last time I will try to do it as a word processor document. I hear Apple Pages are good so I might try that some as my final attempt at using a word processor on it. MS-Word does not really seem suited for holding this much information. I like using MS-Word for technical writing. I would use it still if I could fit my resume on a page or two.

I am kind of toying with the idea of putting it into LaTeX next time. I think it would probably be a lot easier for me to retool the formats. I have also been toying with the idea for a while now of doing it in XML. That would be nice because I could pull bits of it out with XPath expressions, or XQuery queries, or little XLST stylesheets. Also, I could type in a bit of CSS and style it for rendering in my browser as well. Anyway, that is the direction I will proably go in next time.