Ars to the rescue: http://arstechnica.com/science/news/2009/06/study-powerpoint...
Seriously I'd never send this to anyone, I'd be embarrassed.
If you try to put that much design in a resume, you get judged as a designer.
As someone who's hired (good and bad) engineers in both UI/UX and back-end disciplines, my first impression of it was "Yeah, it's not pretty, but he does not allege to be a designer." At that point, I checked out the source code. It was not spectacular, but he did communicate an working grasp of the technology he professed to understand.
If this resume was judged in a biased lean towards UI/UX, my opinion is that you'd be passing up a potentially hard-working and dedicated employee. With a little help from a designer, this guy could possibly do great things.
If you're just throwing a gradient here, a border there, a glow there, etc... then you're just shooting blind.