Leonardo Bancosta is applying for a Software Engineer position advertised on monster.com. He has over 11 years of professional experience in software development. Some of his past roles include Senior Developer, Lead Developer, and Full Stack Web Developer. In these roles, he demonstrated strong technical skills, the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines, and experience managing teams. He is confident he is well-qualified for the position and offers to discuss his background in more detail.

1. LEONARDO V. BANCOSTA, JR.
8072 Mangga cor. Acacia St., Ph. 4, Marcelo Green Village, Paranaque City | +63 906 442 0022 | leonardobancosta@gmail.com
29 July 2016
Dear Hiring Manager,
I am writing to express my interest in your job posting on monster.com f or Software Engineer which I believe I am best suited to fill in, having a solid technical
background and the professional qualifications that match the requirements of the position advertised.
With more than 11 years of professional experience in software development, I can be modestly conf ident enough but I hav e played quite a few challenging roles
already .
To enumerate highlights of my technical experience, I have listed down the roles that gained me a reputation for being the best candidate f or any project by
demonstrating impressive technical skill, grace under fire, and respect fordeadline.
 Senior Developer- Invested in technical experience, tasked to work closely with business analysts in transforming(OR CONVERT?) business
requirements to f unctional specs, provided detailed technical specification, perf ormed unit testing, handled packaging and deployment, created test
scripts, performedcode maintenance, and servedas production support in production deployment.
 Lead Developer–Considered a top-shelf amongst a team of exceptional developers, I was assigned to manage and mentor a small team of mid-level
dev elopers, workalongside architects ontechnical design, create a proof of concept/functional prototype subject f or architect’s approval, create source
code from scratch including the setup of frameworks to be used, configured Spring MVC web application structure (setup jarf iles, ApplicationContext
and properties), configured Hibernate to use HibernateTemplate f or add/edt/delete operations, used JAXB to bind DTO(Data Objects) to database
tables, integrated Spring Security with the organization's LDAP for user login/access, used JQuery for the UI, created stored procedures for most of
the data manipulation and complex queries, configured JBoss App Server for JNDI and Datasource with connection pooling and transaction
management, conducted training for mid-level developers before project kicks off, they only need to follow the codes I created, conducted regular
progress meetings at the end of the day to discuss about the accomplished tasks, issues that surfaced and possible solutions/work around,
maintained a trackerof daily progress and a weekly report presented to themanager, spearheadedDefect Management and Triaging.
 Full Stack Web Developer – Took charge of a project as a one man team where I single-handedly performed requirements gathering, analysis,
design and dev elopment, independently created a detailed technical specification subject for approval by architects and server administrators, and
created test scripts tobe used in the UAT stage.
I would be glad to discuss with you about the details of my professional background, so please call me t +63 906 442 0022.
Sincerely ,
Leonardo V. Bancosta, Jr.
Senior Dev eloper Analyst