Kara M. Shah
*** ***** ******, *** #**, Jersey City, NJ-07302 USA
Phone: 631-***-**** Email: ****.****@*****.***
Objective:
Acquire an appreciated place in the finance field as an Analyst with the full performance of accomplished experience and
education.
Education:
State University of New York, Stony Brook May 2010
MBA (Finance and Information Systems Management) – GPA 3.84
Outstanding Achievement Award – Information Systems Management
Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology – Mumbai University June 2006
Bachelors in Engineering (Electronics and Telecommunication) – GPA 2.4
Bombay Institute of Technology – Maharashtra State Board of Technical Education June 2003
Diploma in Engineering (Digital Electronics) – GPA 2.98
Work Experience:
College of Business, Stony Brook University September 2009 – May 2010
Website manager
Updated the college of business website to display the most current Information.
Planned and executed the redevelopment of the current website.
Wcities Content Solutions Pvt. Ltd. June 2009 – August 2009
Internship
Project management – Planned, executed and allocated resources to create a web application using AJAX and YUI to
insert events occurring all over the world into the Wcities Database.
College of Business, Stony Brook University August 2008 – May 2009
Graduate Assistant
Tested compatibility of Joomla web applications with the College of Business website.
Accomplished other administrative jobs.
Wcities Content Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. February 2007 – June 2008
Software Programmer
Syndicated 3rd party feeds as part of a team using curl and wget.
Redesigned Middle Layer Architecture as part of a team.
Electives:
Finance: Bank Management, Capital Markets, Computational Finance, Mergers and Acquisition
Information Systems: Decision Support System, Individual Directed Research (Change Management), Information
Systems for Management, Project Management
Skills:
Applications: MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook, Visio, Project), OpenOffice.
Computer Languages: PHP, HTML, Javascript, MySQL, XML, XSLT, XPATH
Languages: English, Hindi, Marathi, German and Gujarati.
Projects:
College of Business, Stony Brook University
Pre-Seed Workshop: Part of a team creating a business plan for a new diagnostic process for Thrombocytosis.
JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup Analysis: Worked with a team to compare the companies over the years and also with
each other.
Stock Analysis: Worked with a team to analyze the stocks of conglomerates like 3M, GE, united Technologies, etc.
Also analyzed the stock of Tupperware Brands.
Department of Pathology, Stony Brook Hospital
Data Analysis: Worked with a team to analyze data and improve efficiency in the clinical labs.
*References will be made available on request.
Extra Curricular Activities:
Vice President IGSA, Stony Brook University.
Participated in IEEE paper presentation competition.
Fund raiser (Volunteer) Red Cross - Mumbai, India.
*References will be made available on request.