Systems Engineer

**** ***** ***** **** . **********, VA *****

Phone 804-***-**** . E-mail ***********@*****.***

Tejas J. Shah

Profile

Experienced in Java programming, statistics, decision modeling

methods, web services, optimization algorithms, database, database

management software, and web pages.

Worked for almost 5 years at IBM as an Information Technology

Specialist in the Information On Demand Service Area within

Application Innovation Services Practice Area.

Finished the Accelerated Masters Program at the University of

Virginia May 2014. Obtained a Masters of Engineering in Systems

Engineering at that time.

Received Bachelors of Science in Systems Engineering at the

University of Virginia May 2008.

Employment

July 2008 - March 2013 IT Specialist, IBM Washington, D.C.

Area

PRIDE Web. Wrote user manual for website developed for facility

management.

Federal Aviation Administration. Wrote Java code using Hibernate and

Ant as part of a demonstration for a Web Service. FAA was

considering a Service Oriented Architecture for their organization.

IBM Public Sector. Worked on webpage in HTML.

Internal Revenue Service. Modernized e-File project. Wrote some Java

code to fix an error. Documented using Rational ClearCase. On a

separate stint on project, as part of a team, verified that variable

and file naming standards were applied universally.

United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Transformation

project. Worked on data models in Excel format, InfoSphere Data

Architect, WebSphere Business Modeler, and Rational Software

Architect. Published data models regularly along with supporting

artifacts. Developed a Microsoft Access database and its associated

Visual Basic code that was learned on the job.

Colombian Government. Set up system for printing bar code labels,

and scanning in order to maintain inventory tracking system.

SAM.gov. Tested website manually and used documentation system to

keep track of errors as they pass through the fixing process.

Technologies Used Throughout Job: Java, Hibernate, Ant, MS Word, MS

Excel, InfoSphere Data Architect, WebSphere Business Modeler,

Rational Software Architect, MS Access, Visual Basic, Rational

ClearCase, Rational Team Concert

Education

May 2013 - May 2014 University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Master's of Engineering, Systems Engineering

Cumulative GPA: 3.64

Received an A+ in Statistics for Engineers course. Wrote several

formal reports using Evidence Informed Systems Engineering

methodology and R programming language to statistically analyze

large data sets

Used MS Excel and Mathematica extensively in several other courses

Capstone Project Title: "Connected Vehicles: Maximizing Market

Penetration using Incentive Strategies." Showed how several Systems

Engineering analysis tools could be used to evaluate different

incentive strategies for the Federal Highway Administration to

implement in order to maximize connected vehicle market penetration

rates.

August 2004 - May 2008 University of Virginia

Charlottesville, VA

Bachelor's of Science, Systems Engineering

Thesis: Adequacy of Moral Intensity, 2008. Addressed the adequacy of

moral intensity (MI) as a data construct for ethical decision making

for businesses.

Minor: German Language and Literature

Significant Honors

Cumulative GPA: 3.23

Major (Systems Engineering classes only) GPA: 3.301

Omega Rho Honor Society (Operations Research), inducted Spring 2007

Dean's List, Spring 2007

Summer College, Cornell University, Summer 2003

Study Abroad, University of Salzburg, Austria, Summer 2004

Projects

Wrote the Java code which allows a security guard to watch the

footage captured on four different cameras on a large warehouse,

and move them around at will (i.e., rotate, pan, zoom and focus.)

Solved dozens of complex cases that involved analyzing data and

coming up with a decision for a specific business and presenting

it in a PowerPoint presentation.

Created a web database for events to be held on a college campus

which allows for search and entry functions for three types of

users: visitors, reviewers, and hosts.

Conducted a systems analysis for how Virginia (specifically

southern and southwestern Virginia) could use tobacco settlement

funds to boost local economy. Came up with several possible ways

of distributing the funds and determined the optimal mix.

Constructed a simple discrete event simulation to compare

different work schedules for the front-end of a local Kroger

grocery store.

Capstone Project. "Design and Implementation of an Anomaly

Detection System for the Virginia State Police." Designed and

built a web service application which Virginia State Police and

Virginia local jurisdictions may use to define the types of

anomalies they desire using original algorithms.

Languages

English - Native Speaker; Gujarati - Fluent; German - Basic Level;

Hindi - Elementary Level

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