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% LETTER INFORMATION
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% The company being applied to
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\recipient
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{Freedom of the Press Foundation\\601 Van Ness Ave. Suite E731\\San Francisco, CA 94102\\USA}
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\letterdate{\today}
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\letteropening{To the Hiring Manager,}
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\letterbody{
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My name is Ethan Paul and I am writing to apply for the Newsroom Support Engineer position
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at the Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF). In my nine years of professional experience I
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have worked in a wide variety of positions including as a Tier I support technician for a
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legacy institution that supported thousands of clients, and a systems architect and
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administrator for a small startup company. Through my entire career what I have enjoyed most
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from my work are the opportunities to meet people, understand their technical challenges,
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and work to build and deliver solutions that help them to be more successful in their jobs.
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While I enjoy solving technical problems, it is the relationship between technology and
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people that has always been of greatest interest to me.
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Developing this relationship is the work that the FPF provides through the maintenance and
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support of projects like SecureDrop, which demonstrates an ideal model of a distributed open
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source software platform. The relationship between people and technology is so
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often a complicated one that grows more so as systems become ever more sophisticated and
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stratified. As a result of this sophistication, taking advantage of technological
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benefits becomes increasingly difficult as the level of expertise required to work within a
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system also increases. This makes the work of specialist groups all the more important:
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organizations like the FPF provide the essential service of helping people better participate
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in our rapidly digitizing world. The FPF and similar organizations also stand in stark
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contrast to companies that ostensibly provide the same service, but only for their own
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benefit rather than that of their clients, customers, and community. The commitment to
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providing enhanced access to technological resources for the principle benefit of its clients
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and community is what appeals most to me about applying to join the team at FPF.
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One of the most interesting and fulfilling projects I have had the opportunity to work on
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during my time in the technology sector was the implementation and support of a network
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monitoring system for my company's wireless network infrastructure. This project allowed me
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to work with and learn from experts in different fields as I coordinated the system's design
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across several engineering departments while continually working with the Network
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Operations teams to understand how they needed the system to function in daily use. While the
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technical work for the project was interesting, by far the most engaging part of the process
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was understanding the needs and limitations of the people using the system so that I could
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work to improve its utility. This exposure to other teams and specialties helped me to develop
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a better understanding of the business, a plethora of diverse relationships, and gave me more
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opportunities to expand my technical knowledge.
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\\\\
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At this point in my career I am interested in the impact my work has on my community and
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environment which is why I have chosen to branch out of the traditional technology sector.
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I value contributing positively to my organization's culture and clients, but doing so
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while also working to fight inequity and improve free access to information is a dream
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opportunity for me. I have admired the FPF's work from a far for long enough that the
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prospect of applying to work here seems almost surreal. And yet the Newsroom Support
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Engineer role combines two elements that are very important to me: developing people's
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relationship with their technology, and promoting digital freedom for people everywhere. For
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all these reasons I hope you will consider me for the position and I look forward to hearing
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from you soon.
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}
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