Is Thaddeus Okumu-Barrowclough a real engineer

No. He is invented for this page, and so are Harrowden Infrastructure and Pellstow Consulting. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's career.

Should chartership be prominent

Yes, as a certification with its year. On a civil engineering application chartership decides which jobs a candidate is eligible for, and it belongs where a filter can find it.

How should scheme value be described

As a combined figure with a count. Six schemes with a combined construction value of GBP 42 million tells a design manager the scale without pretending one engineer delivered a motorway alone.

What did the checker score it

97 out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The document has 239 readable words, which is eleven short of the volume band opening at 250.

Is answering site queries worth a line

It is one of the best lines available. A hundred and eighty technical queries resolved across three live contracts says the candidate has seen their own drawings built, which is the gap between a designer and an engineer.

Which design is this rendered in

Architect, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. It carries three roles and two certifications in one column without crowding.

Example · Engineering

A civil engineer résumé example, from drawing board to site query

One complete civil engineer résumé, written out in full. The person is invented. The reading and the score come from the product itself.

ConxfolioPublished 2026-09-13

— scheme value, approvals, queries answered.

The civil engineer example résumé drawn as a complete page in the Architect design: name, summary, the roles with their bullet lines, education and a skills row — The example below, drawn by the builder's own renderer in the Architect design. The picture was taken by pressing this page's own Use this example door and photographing what the editor rendered.

Civil engineering résumés tend to list software and scheme names, which tells a design manager what was on the shelf and nothing about the engineer. This example is written out in full so you can read the alternative, then put through the tools here so you can see what software takes from it. The candidate is invented. Thaddeus Okumu-Barrowclough does not exist, neither employer exists, and every figure was chosen to demonstrate a shape.

The example, in full

An invented person. Not a real document, and not yours.

Thaddeus Okumu-Barrowclough
Civil Engineer
Manchester, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 161 496 0409

Summary
Civil engineer with nine years on highways and drainage schemes. Works on design, buildability and the site queries that arrive at four on a Friday.

Experience

Senior Civil Engineer · Harrowden Infrastructure, Manchester · 2021 to present

Led the design of 6 highway schemes with a combined construction value of GBP 42 million.
Cut design programme on a 4 km carriageway scheme by 7 weeks by staging the approvals.
Resolved 180 technical queries from site across 3 live contracts.
Checked and signed 240 drawings and mentored 3 graduate engineers.
Coordinated 4 subconsultants and 2 utility providers on a town centre scheme of 11 junctions.

Civil Engineer · Pellstow Consulting, Leeds · 2016 to 2021

Designed drainage for 14 developments totalling 900 homes.
Produced 60 flood risk assessments and secured approval on 57 at first submission.
Reduced modelling time by 35% by standardising 5 calculation templates.
Supported 5 site investigations and wrote the ground condition sections of 9 reports.

Graduate Civil Engineer · Pellstow Consulting, Leeds · 2016 to 2018

Drafted 140 general arrangement drawings under supervision across 6 schemes.
Completed the chartership development objectives 8 months ahead of the usual programme.

Education
MEng Civil Engineering · Pennine Institute of Technology, Manchester · 2012 to 2016

Skills
highway design, drainage design, flood risk assessment, AutoCAD Civil 3D, MicroDrainage, technical checking, CDM regulations, specification writing, site support, graduate mentoring

Certifications
Chartered Engineer · 2021
CSCS card · 2023

Value, approvals, queries

Six highway schemes with a combined construction value of GBP 42 million. Sixty flood risk assessments with 57 approved at first submission. A hundred and eighty technical queries resolved from site across three live contracts. Those three describe scale, quality and buildability, which is the whole of what a design manager needs.

The first-submission approval rate is the strongest of them. Getting a submission through without a resubmission is the difference between a programme that holds and one that slips, and it is a number a consultant already tracks.

Checking and mentoring belong on the page

Two hundred and forty drawings checked and signed, three graduate engineers mentored. Checking is the work that senior engineers spend their afternoons on and almost never write down, and it is the clearest evidence of technical authority available.

The graduate role at the bottom does a similar job from the other end: 140 general arrangement drawings drafted under supervision, and the chartership objectives completed ahead of the usual programme. Two lines, and the ladder is visible.

What the reading found

The door on this page hands the document to the résumé builder as plain text, through the same import an uploaded file goes through, and the review shows each field beside the line it came from. Here the completeness pass found four readable sections, 159 words of experience evidence and ten distinct skills, with chartership and the site card kept as certifications with their years.

The Conxfolio import review after the door opened, showing Thaddeus Okumu-Barrowclough's example read into fields beside the rendered page, with the line saying it is an example — The real import review, opened by this page's own door. It names Thaddeus Okumu-Barrowclough as invented before anything is saved, and it shows every field beside the line it came from.

No language model is involved at any stage. The readers are deterministic, and a string that cannot be found in the source document is dropped and counted rather than kept.

What the checker scored it

The same import review on a 390 pixel phone screen, with the example notice above the accept button — The same door on a phone. Nothing is withheld on the small screen: the notice, the reading and the accept button are all there.

Ninety-seven out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The arithmetic is 100 × 30% + 100 × 30% + 92 × 40% = 97, explained in the article on the score. Eleven action-led lines, five of them measurable, eleven lines of depth, and 239 readable words.

Eleven words short of the volume band, on a three-role page with eleven evidence lines. It is the same edge the HR manager example lands on, and it is worth seeing twice: the band is a hard line and the ATS checker prints the count so you can decide whether to cross it honestly.

What this example leaves off

No software version numbers, no client logos and no list of every standard referenced. A design manager assumes the standards and reads the approval record, which is the thing that predicts whether your submissions will go through theirs.

Scheme names are mostly left off as well. A named road means something to the three people who worked on it; a scheme value, a length and an approval rate mean something to everybody reading the page.

What to change for your own

Change the discipline. Structures, geotechnics, water, rail and coastal work all use this shape with different approvals and different regulators. Then put in your own scheme values, submission records, query counts and checking volumes.

Keep chartership and the site card with their years. Keep the graduate role at two lines. The guide on certifications covers placement, the design gallery holds 37 layouts, and the project manager example, the medical assistant example and the dental hygienist example show the same structure elsewhere.

Write yours beside it

Opens the builder with Thaddeus's example loaded, saved as its own entry in the Architect design. Replace every line with your own. Free, no account.

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Questions

Is Thaddeus Okumu-Barrowclough a real engineer: No. He is invented for this page, and so are Harrowden Infrastructure and Pellstow Consulting. The figures show a shape and describe nobody's career.
Should chartership be prominent: Yes, as a certification with its year. On a civil engineering application chartership decides which jobs a candidate is eligible for, and it belongs where a filter can find it.
How should scheme value be described: As a combined figure with a count. Six schemes with a combined construction value of GBP 42 million tells a design manager the scale without pretending one engineer delivered a motorway alone.
What did the checker score it: 97 out of 100, with one improvement remaining worth 8 points. The document has 239 readable words, which is eleven short of the volume band opening at 250.
Is answering site queries worth a line: It is one of the best lines available. A hundred and eighty technical queries resolved across three live contracts says the candidate has seen their own drawings built, which is the gap between a designer and an engineer.
Which design is this rendered in: Architect, one of the 21 ATS-safe layouts out of 37. It carries three roles and two certifications in one column without crowding.

Conxfolio is a free set of four career tools: a résumé builder with 37 rendered layouts, an ATS résumé checker that prints its own arithmetic, a cover letter builder that traces every proof paragraph back to the line it came from, and a portfolio builder with 20 authored designs. There is no account to create, nothing is held back for a paid plan, and no language model is used anywhere in the product, so the readers, the score and the letter are deterministic code you can check.