Jay Rajendra Shah
***W **th Street, Apt #*, Los Angeles, CA 90007
*******@***.*** 323-***-****
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA
Master of Science in Computer Science, GPA 3.23
May '10
Courses pursued: Mumbai University
Mumbai, India
Bachelor of Engineering in Information Technology
May '08
Courses Pursued
Web Technologies, Database Systems, Data Warehouse and Mining, Operating
Systems, Software Engineering, Analysis of Algorithms, Security Systems,
Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Computer Architecture, Data
Structures, Management Information System
2 Technical Skills
3 Web Technologies: HTML, JavaScript, SQL, Perl, XML, CSS, AJAX, JSON, CGI,
PHP, UML
4 Database: MySQL, Oracle 10g
Servers: Apache, Jakarta Tomcat, MS IIS
5 Programming Languages: C, C++, J2EE
6 Platforms: Mac, Windows, linux
7
8 Work Experience
Luxe List, LLC Position: Web Consulting. http://www.luxelisthome.com
June'10-Present
Created database for the property management on their website also made
photo gallery dynamic for each property.
Implemented widgets for Facebook, Walkscore and Google maps.
USC SPPD Position: Student Web Developer.
http://www.uscdistancelearning.com/statistics/ April'10-
May'10
Designed the CSS of the website.
Added java applets for the questionnaire, graphs and labs. Improved the
navigation of the website.
Opportunity Green Inc. Position: Software Engineer Intern.
http://www.opportunitygreen.com June'09-May'10
Responsible for prototyping and developing functionalities like
presentation gallery, blog editing, PHP web applications.
Modified the theme for Blog on wordpress and structured queries in MySQL.
Created web application for Sponsors' data gathering and also wrote scripts
to add data to SalesForce (CMS)
USC IGM Online Art Gallery
Fall '08
Lead the team as the Project Manager. Interacted with the client to acquire
requirements in the current system, and applied Incremental Commitment
Model for development process.
Designed a prototype for the online art gallery website and implemented the
PayPal system.
9 Project Experience
Google Flickr Mash up
Spring '09
Designed a webpage which interacts with user and searches the address of
any location from the user.
Using this address/location the photos related to that area were selected
from flickr.com and were mapped on
Google maps on the same page along with the street views.
USC campus surveillance
Spring '09
. Created a Java UI which displays the map of USC campus for surveillance
through cameras.
. The application provides user to query and identify the closest vehicles
around the campus through available cameras.
Data Mining Web Crawler
Spring '09
. Implemented a Web Crawler which gives the result of a search query on
sponsored links of Google and Live Search engines.
. When a user issues a search, the server-side script in Perl executes the
query and tabulates the sponsored links.
Intelligent Software Estimation Tool
Spring '08
. Implemented a tool in JAVA which estimates the software development cost
and the effort, required for the client's project.
. The calculations were made on the basis of Use-Case text of UML diagrams,
past projects and expert opinion also applied the principal of RUP model
and the COCOMO model to estimate the effort and cost during various
phases.
Othello Game
Spring '10
. Developed an artificial intelligent agent to solve the Othello (Reversi)
game.
. The best solution for each move was calculated using the alpha beta
pruning search algorithm.
Knowledge Base under Entailment - [C, C++]
Spring'10
Realized two algorithms DPLL backward chaining and Walk SAT using C
language.
Both algorithms are used to check whether a give knowledge base entails a
query.
10 Research Work
Security Threats in Mobile Systems through Messaging Services
Fall '09