PAYAL SHAH

Email: abnfrj@r.postjobfree.com Phone: 832-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Utilize and enhance my current experience in product development and software engineering methods to create

innovative solutions

SUMMARY

4 years of IT experience in product development and creating software solutions

Programming experience in client server technologies including .NET Framework 2.0, 3.5, IIS 6.0, ASP.NET

2.0, 3.5, AJAX, SQL Server 2000, 2005, C, C++, C#, Java Script, XML, CSS, Flex Builder3

Knowledge of Sharepoint Portal Services

Hands on experience with WinForms, .Net Remoting, Web Services, 2005, NUnit and Test Driven Design

Knowledge and understanding of VB.Net, SQL Server Reporting Services, WCF, WPF, WF, LINQ, Microsoft

Silverlight and Object Oriented Designing

Experience working with Infragistics controls

Undertook green belt training in Six Sigma during an industrial project at Schmart Engg., Beaumont, TX. Used

the DMAIC approach of Six Sigma

• Excellent organizational and interpersonal skills in addition to productive working as a team member

as well as independently with minimal supervision to meet/beat deadlines

SKILLS

Languages Databases

C#, C, C++, Visual Basics 6.0 Microsoft SQL Server 2000/2005

Web Technologies Technologies

ASP.NET2.0, 3.5, WCF, WPF, LINQ, AJAX, ASP, .Net Framework 2.0, 3.5, SharePoint, Multi-threading,

CSS, XHTML1.1, XML 1.0, JavaScript 1.3, UML, SOA, TCP/IP, UDP

Design Patterns, WebServices, SOAP, WSDL, UDDI,

Net Remoting, ADO.Net

Environment Other Technologies and Tools

Windows 2000/XP Visual Studio 2005, 2008, Visual Studio Team

System, WinForms, NUnit, Quality Center, Flex

Builder 3, CVS, MS Office Suite

EDUCATION

Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering Aug'05

- Dec'06

Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

Bachelors of Science in Electronics Engineering Aug'00 - May'04

Bombay University, India

PROFESSIONAL EXPOSURE

Client:

Dell, Austin, TX Oct'07 – Oct’09

Project: DellStar Advisor Integration .Net Developer

Dell's DellStar project provides price and marketing details of all Dell products. Advisor tool of this project

advises Dell's business customers for configuring and creating satisfactory solutions from Dell products based

on their business requirements. The Advisor tool is built on .Net Framework 2.0.

Responsibilities:

Designed and implemented applications with interactions between various product data and e-

commerce systems to generate valid quotes

Worked on Flex Builder 3 to integrate the products with the Advisor Framework and DellStar using Visual

Studio 2008

Tested, debugged and fixed Advisor tool code issues in Visual Studio 2008

Made Advisor tool code changes in .Net Framework 3.5 with ASP.Net 3.5, WCF, WPF and C# and participated

in team code reviews

Worked on NUnit and Quality Center for testing and logging defects for Advisor solutions

Participated in team regression testing and debugging during Dellstar launches

Integrated new Dell products like Servers, Blades, Storage Devices into the Advisor tool by making code

changes to the existing tool using JavaScript and data from SQL Server 2005

Worked with .Net Remoting to pass objects and receive data from the local Web Services

Conducted team SCRUM meetings as a Scrum Master as per Agile Methodology

Environment: VSTS, Visual Studio 2008, ASP.Net 3.5, JavaScript, C#, .Net Framework 3.5, WCF, WPF,

XML, NUnit, Quality Center, SQL Server 2005, Remoting

Client:

IPA (Insurance Producers of America), Irving, TX June’07 - Oct’07

Project: Website Development Web Developer

IPA is an insurance company having agents all over US. This project was to develop their website so that the

current agents can access the company’s updates online. Also new agents can enroll online through the website

and pay fees through Paypal. AJAX was used on forms that were to be filled by the agent’s information.

Responsibilities:

Developed a website in ASP.NET2.0 using Visual Studio 2005

• The codebehind was written in C# for the web pages

Used WebForms and wrote Stored Procedures to collect and update data from and to the Database tables

using SQL Server 2000

Worked with CSS for designing the site

Used ADO.NET, DataReader and DataAdapter to read data directly from the tables

Used AJAX tools like ScriptManager and UpdatePanel for Agent Enrollment Forms

Worked with SMTP protocol and MailMessage object of .NET 2.0 for sending mails

Used JavaScript and XML to add more features to the web pages

Environment: ASP.NET 2.0, C#, ADO.NET, AJAX, SQLServer 2000, CSS, XML, JavaScript

Broadband Telecommunications, Mumbai, India May’04 - July’05

Project: Customer Support and Marketing System .Net Developer

Customer support and marketing system is an intranet application for serving the customer needs and

purchases. The System assists the marketing and supporting staff to keep track of the order and requirements of

the customers and maintain a database of the transactions using C# and ASP.NET and meet their Enterprise

requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Developed application modules using C#.NET

• Involved in writing components which access the database using ADO.NET

• Involved in configuring Web.config file for form Authentication and Authorization

• Developed Login Forms using Form Authentication

• Developed a client server Intranet application that used Win Forms front end and C# as middle-tier,

which are deployed to an enterprise server through .NET Remoting

• Developed .NET components, Web User Controls, custom control using C#

Environment: ASP.NET, WinForms, .Net Remoting, C#, ADO.NET, SQL Server 2000 and Windows 2000

ACADEMIC PROJECT

Lamar University, Beaumont, TX Spring’06

Project: Hotel Management

This project was made in C using linklist, structure and file I/O. The main features added in the project were of

reservation, booking, cancellation of rooms and additional facilities like restaurant, theater and swimming pool.

Responsibilities:

Created structure for each customer and stored their information as structure objects

Stored customer details in file with Customer ID

Used the Customer ID to retrieve the object containing all the customer information

Interface was done in C graphics

Environment: C, linklist, structure, file I/O, C graphics

ACHIEVEMENTS

Vice President of Friends of India Association, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

Selected for Lamar Leadership Conference, Lamar University, Beaumont, TX

• Awarded with the Dean’s Scholarship Masters Program at Lamar University, Beaumont TX (2005-

2007)

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