October 20, 2002

Sentinel Benefits Group, Inc. 601 Edgewater Drive, Suite 250 Wakefield, MA 01880

Dear Sir or Madam:

Please find my resume enclosed. I am very interested in applying for the position of VB Programmer for your company as listed in Monster.Com this past week.

I believe that I am well qualified to be a Visual Basics Programmer for your company for the following reasons:

 I work well with the ‘customer’ whether the customer is within the company (the end user) or elsewhere.

 I have a strong business background. This includes degrees in both computer programming and financial planning. The financial planning degree will allow me to better understand your company’s products and services.

 I have 9 years of Visual Basic programming experience including strong SQL experience. The majority of my recent programming work has involved MS SQL Server, but I have worked with Oracle in the past. I have also used Crystal Reports.

 While the majority of my programming experience leans toward straight client server application development, I do have experience with HTML, XML and ASP.

 I am self-motivated and a quick-learner and strive to be the best at everything I do.

For these reasons I feel very strongly that your requirements and my qualifications are a match.

Please feel free to contact me via email or telephone. I have an answering machine at home – feel free to leave a message. The email address and telephone numbers are listed on my resume.

Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Scott M. MacDonald Scott M. MacDonald

ADDRESS 51 Sand Pond Road Sanford, Maine 04073

TELEPHONE (207) 490-1052

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

09/99 – Present PROGRAMMER ANALYST DAYLIGHT SOFTWARE Dover, NH . Development of Industry leading Hospitality, Sales and Catering product using MS VB 6.0, MS SQL Server 2000 and an Object Oriented, multi tiered architecture. . Lead Developer for data transformation services using MS VB 6.0, MS Access, MS SQL Server 2000. Utilizing a unique, “data pump” technique to automate repetitive conversions of competitor data. . Extensive work with SQL (both Access/SQL Server).

04/97 – 09/99 PROGRAMMER ANALYST NEW ENGLAND PROGRAMMING SOLUTIONS (NEPS) Londonderry, NH . Development of Industry leading Document Management product using MS VB 5.0, MS SQL Server 6.5 and an Object Oriented, 3 tiered Client/Server architecture. . Development and debugging of modules for retail Print-On-Demand product. . Developed Server Side Windows NY Services program to automate workflow e- mail Notification module using MS VB 5.0 with SMTP and MIME.

10/95 – 04/97 PROGRAMMER ANALYST ZIFF-DAVIS PUBLISHING Medford, MA . Development of Customer-based Advertisement Software for use in Computer Shopper/PC Magazine using MS VB 4.0 with MS Access. . Developed a nationwide Client/Server application using VB 4.0 with Oracle 7.0 DBMS to more effectively track editorial inventory. . Provided analytical support and developed utilities to aid in the selection and implementation of an off-the-shelf consolidation and reporting package.

11/93 – 10/95 PROGRAMMER ANALYST PUTNAM INVESTMENTS Quincy, MA . Full development cycle for Putnam Life-Stage financial planning product written for Windows platform using MS Visual Basic. . Development of Client Billing Application using Visual Basic, SQL, Unix C Shell, Autosys

SKILLS MS Visual Basic MS Visual Studio .NET MS Windows NT/2000 ASP XML MS Access SQL Server C/C++/C#