JEFF CHIEH-FU CHENG
615 Taravel Street
San Francisco, CA 94116
(415) 759-7059
OneBrightSnake@yahoo.com
http://members.fortunecity.com/onebrightsnake

Sample Cover Letter for Software Engineering Position

I have years of experience programming with object-oriented languages.    With successful completion of undergraduate study at UC Davis, I acquired years of experience programming on UNIX and Windows platforms.    Although heavily exposed to different programming paradigms and languages, I am most fluent in two object-oriented languages, JAVA and C++.    You are welcome to download samples of my JAVA code in .java format for local execution or in .doc format for easy reading from my site:  
http://members.fortunecity.com/onebrightsnake/
please click on the files icon when you get there.

I am a firm believer in writing well-documented codes.    With what I have learned in an upper-division technical writing class, I am familiar with writing complete, concise technical documentations.    This habit of documentation writing brought many benefits; my tutees in the MESA Engineering Program found the documentation sometime essential in understanding codes, for example.    

I had experience working with object-oriented languages outside of a classroom.    While working as a computer consultant at UC Davis, I partake in the design of new websites, using HTML and JAVA.  In addition, I was a member of an eight-person service team that provided onsite troubleshooting for network-related problems to students.  As the standard practice, I always sought out my team whenever I found a problem that was too complex and cannot be solved in a reasonable time.

My education and experience will be of great benefit to the company.    Thank you for you time and consideration.  I look forward to meeting with you to further discuss my qualifications.

Sincerely,

Jeff Cheng