IT Industry Keywords

Use these proven IT industry keywords in resumes and job letters to demonstrate your professionalism in information technology. If you are not familiar with any of these fields, use the keyword to search the web to get more information. For those who write resumes to target positions in specific openings, make sure you present in-depth knowledge and experience around keywords in these fields.

Application Programming and Development
Software Design and Architecture
Enterprise Applications
Database
Operating Systems
Network
IT Project & Management

Application Programming and Development

application, application programming, application development
client/server, client/server application
database application
desktop application
e-commerce application
internet application, internet-based application
object oriented (OO)
Rich Internet Applications (RIA)
software development life-cycle, application development life-cycle
software, software programming, software development
test, unit, test, system test, acceptance test
web-based application, web application
web development
web design
web-enabled

Software Programming Languages: C, C++, C#, Java, Visual C# .NET, Visual ASP .NET, Visual Basic, Visual Basic .NET, Delphi (Pascal), PowerBuilder, SQL, ADA, Cobol, Python, Natural

Web Scripting Languages: JSP, custom tag, ASP, ASP .NET, JavaScript, VBScript, Perl, CGI, PHP, mySQL, HTML, XML

Development Tools: Micrososft Visual Studio, Visual Studio .NET, JBuilder, Visual Cafe, Delphi, PowerBuilder, NetBeans, Eclipse

Software Design and Architecture

architecture, distributed architecture, multi-tier architecture
business processing reengineering
CORBA (common object request broker architecture)
design pattern
distributed object computing
enterprise JavaBeans (EJB)
framework
J2EE (Java 2 Enterprise Edition)
load balance
Microsoft .NET
MVC (model-view-controller)
object-oriented design
PAC pattern (presentation-abstraction-control)
platform
scalability
security
service-oriented architecture (SOA)
software life-cycle
RUP (Rational Unified Process)
UML
web services

UML diagrams: use case, class, object, collaboration, sequence, activity, component, deployment.

Tiers: multi-tier, presentation tier, client tier, middle tier, business tier, data tier, enterprise tier, integration tier, resource tier.

Application server keywords: IIS, Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, EAServer, Oracle AS, SilverStream

Enterprise Applications

CRM (customer relationship management)
EAM (enterprise asset management)
ERP (enterprise resource planning)
PDM (product data management)
PLM (production lifecycle management)
PRM ( partner relationship management)
PSA (professional services automation)
SCM (supply-chain management)
SAM (strategic asset management)
SRM - Supplier Relationship Management

Product keywords: SAP, PeopleSoft, Sibel, TeamCenter, Maximo, Lawson, J.D.Edwards.

Database

backup & recovery
configuration, database configuration, server configuration
ERD (entity relationship diagram)
ETL (extract, transform and load)
database administration
database analysis
database architecture
database design, logical database design, physical database design
database management
Database server (Oracle, DB2, Sybase, SQL Server)
data mart
data modeling
data querying
data warehousing
installation, database installation, server installation
JDBC
management (data, schemas, instance, security)
ODBC
OLAP (online analytical processing)
OLTP (online transaction processing)
performance tuning
RDBMS
replication
SQL (structured query language), PL/SQL, T-SQL
tuning, application tuning, SQL tuning

Operating Systems

Active Directory
anti-virus
Domain Controller
Exchange Server
firewall
grid computing
integration, system integration
LINUX, Red Hat
RAID-5 redundancy
SAN
system, system security
UNIX, Sun Solaris, HP-UX
Windows, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP

IT Project & Management

analysis, analyze
budget
communication skills
contract
cost management
interpersonal skills
IT policies
IT standards
leadership
oversee
plan
project planning
proposal, proposal writing
risk management
return on investment (ROI)
specification, functional spec, technical spec
strategic plans
supervise, supervision
team
time management