Saumil Shah

Work Experience

	ZYNGA, San Francisco, CA March 2011 – Current *Software Engineer*
Working on facebook game development on new feature development and bug-fixes. Work primarily includes development with Actionscript on the frontend and PHP on the backend. Designed new tools for content which made getting out new content on a faster rate and eliminating manual validations that were required before pushing new content.

	Legalhorse, Inc Aug 2010 – Current *Free-lance Web-development*
Designing and modeling the architecture of an auctioning website for lawyers to search for cases submitted by clients and bid for them accordingly. Developing the front-end and back-end using PHP, PERL & MySQL database.

	Amgen, Thousand Oaks, CA May 2010 – March 2011 *Sr. Associate Information Systems Analyst*
Worked with the architecture team to gather the requirements from business user and designing the system / data model. Also worked on preparing test cases & QA steps for automated Sales Reporting process.

BCCTHIS, LLC, Los Angeles, CA
Jan 2010 – May 2010
LAMP PHP Web Developer

Conceived, designed and implemented various new functionalities for the Bccthis web based Twitter client, using the various technologies like PHP, JavaScript, JQuery, Twitter APIs, and MySQL, JSON.
Design and administer database in MySQL environment and assist with the administration of Apache web servers running in Linux environment.
Suggested and implemented the functionality to include Web Statistics for the Tweets submitted by users using Bccthis Twitter front-end portal. This was helpful for marketing people to track how much “talk” was generated by their tweet i.e. their product.
Created a “Chrome Add-on” using PHP and JQuery so that users could just click on a Chrome toolbar icon to submit a quick tweet and not go to the actual website for tweeting.
Website I worked on - http://bccth.is

	University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA July 2009 - May 2010, Sept 2008 - May 2009 *Web Applications Developer*
Redesigned many of the old websites by changing the database schemas and creating Data Access Objects for all the tables for easy maintenance and changes. Researched and proposed optimizing solutions for search queries by using indexing techniques. Orchestrated the design and implementation of many websites The websites created by me till date: http://sait.usc.edu/studentrecognition http://sait.usc.edu/tmb http://sait.usc.edu/recsports

Western Asset Management Company, Pasadena, CA
May 2009 - July 2009
Software Engineering Intern

Architected and developed a reporting tool with a front-end in Java and back-end in Oracle to prepare summarized monthly Settlement and trade reports. Made use of REST Web Services to interact with other Servers and extract appropriate data from the Web Service response.
Designed and implemented a web portal using Java Servlets, JSP, AJAX and Tomcat Server to give a detailed daily status on the various nightly batch processes.
Developed an automation project in PHP, MySQL to interpret the automated “.txt” reports being generated by the batch process InvestOne system and then compute the efficiency of the system. This project saved a lot of time for the user who could get a dynamic visual display of the data, workload and efficiency over the web instead of going through each of the “.txt” files separately

	Accenture, India Aug 2007 – July 2008 *Associate Software Engineer*
Created and implemented automated reports for the client to get end-of-day transactional reports. Performed data migration and then validation of databases to find inconsistencies after migration. Prepared and executed test plans, simulated test cases for testing PeopleSoft functional modules using Mercury Test Director.

	Intellvisions, India June 2006 – Aug 2006 *Internship*
Worked with the Design and Requirement gathering team Prepared a detailed analysis report of the information gathered