Dear Orbitz,

I found your ad for 'Product Manager, Content Management' on Monster.com and would like to be considered for the job.

I am a broadly skilled business manager and  began my career as an engineer. I have helped develop multi-million dollar computerized production systems. I worked as a sales engineer where my daily activity was to assess client needs, devise solutions and make persuasive presentations about them. I have created several complicated web applications and have run successful, large and small scale projects. These ranged from implementing an online backup production business unit to designing and implementing a trade show with nearly a hundred people, millions of dollars worth of equipment and, development of a  novel production system integration. I have written product specifications ranging from the broadly conceptual to actually defining technical interfaces for a digital production system.

I understand content management systems (part of the multi-million dollar production system was a digital asset management system). I have written web-based content management systems - always with templates (before templates were a commonplace idea). I have already begun your study of 3rd party CMS: Stay away from Drupal and Mombo (lots of problems but no access control list is the deal breaker).

As I read your job description, you are looking for an internal entrepreneur that can observe a need that should be filled, understand the requirements, and do the planning necessary to improve the company. That's what I do. My experience with the web, content systems and project management, are details in a career dedicated to getting things done. I am expert at understanding an opportunity and finding a way to make it real.

As I look back over this letter, I can't imagine what I would change to make my career a better prelude to helping Orbitz continue its path to excellence.

I look forward to an opportunity to discuss this further.

Best Regards,

TQ White II