<p>October 20, 2002</p><p>Sentinel Benefits Group, Inc. 601 Edgewater Drive, Suite 250 Wakefield, MA 01880</p><p>Dear Sir or Madam:</p><p>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.</p><p>I believe that I am well qualified to be a Visual Basics Programmer for your company for the following reasons:</p><p> I work well with the ‘customer’ whether the customer is within the company (the end user) or elsewhere.</p><p> 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.</p><p> 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. </p><p> While the majority of my programming experience leans toward straight client server application development, I do have experience with HTML, XML and ASP.</p><p> I am self-motivated and a quick-learner and strive to be the best at everything I do.</p><p>For these reasons I feel very strongly that your requirements and my qualifications are a match.</p><p>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.</p><p>Thank you for your time and consideration.</p><p>Sincerely,</p><p>Scott M. MacDonald Scott M. MacDonald</p><p>ADDRESS 51 Sand Pond Road Sanford, Maine 04073</p><p>TELEPHONE (207) 490-1052</p><p>PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE</p><p>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).</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>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</p><p>SKILLS MS Visual Basic MS Visual Studio .NET MS Windows NT/2000 ASP XML MS Access SQL Server C/C++/C#</p>