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Sai Emrys
PO Box 51304 • Palo Alto, CA 94303
CELL: (650) 575-2552 • E-MAIL: work@saizai.com
Work experience (partial) | |
March 2008–present Zynga Inc. San Francisco, CA Producer – Social Games (formerly Software Engineer) Developed, expanded, and managed six games totaling 80-300k unique daily active users (DAU), in Ruby on Rails (RoR). Administered 18 Fedora 8 servers, memcached, mongrel, thin, etc. Designed major internal analysis & statistics project to answer complex questions about game performance, design, revenue, retention, engagement, & virality. 1997–2001, 2007–present SaiTech Palo Alto, CA Owner 97–01: Handled all business or SaiTech, a one-person shareware company; designed/implemented programs, GUI, API, and software libraries for Palm OS in C++. 07–: Developing four major RoR based web applications: MotoStudy, a research study to investigate correlations between motorcyclist behaviors and outcomes; “Solomon”, which helps people change the political world; “Silk Hat”, a social game with sophisticated technology on the back end to make things Just Work; and “Hermes”, which connects people of different religions for a common cause. Summer 2005–present Medtronic Inc. (MDT) Washington, DC Consultant / Research Assistant Contributed to & researched major international projects. Compiled project lists, wrote business letters and called decision makers, made preliminary action plans & project analyses, helped develop standard operating procedures, attended industry conferences for networking and project identification, etc. Initiated, designed, & deployed a major, secure, web-based Ruby on Rails database application to manage projects, contacts, leads, tasks, process automation, etc. Worked directly w/ MDT Director of International Relations. 2006–present Language Creation Society, 501(c)3 Berkeley, CA President & Chairman of Board Initiated, organized, and put on the Language Creation Conference '06 and '07: http://conlangs.berkeley.edu. Presented a talk at LCC1 on Non-linear fully 2-dimensional writing systems. Lead foundation of 501(c)3 nonprofit. Spring 2005 & 2006 UC Berkeley Conlangs DE-Cal Facilitator / Teacher Created and taught two semester-long classes about how to create new languages from scratch (from phonology through pragmatics), to very positive reviews: http://conlangs-decal.livejournal.com/in | |
Skills | |
I’ve been programming since middle school – first on my TI-82, later in C and C++ to create the Palm OS program I released through SaiTech. At De Anza I learned x86 assembly; at Berkeley I learned Lisp for my classes on AI & programming structure. I’ve also used Visual Basic as part of Access database back ends. I learned Ruby on Rails & MySQL (and relearned CSS, HTML, and JavaScript) for use in several personal projects, and then applied it to work for Medtronic. Since joining Zynga and starting ever more ambitious personal projects, I have learned a lot about scalability, game & web design, AJAX, and Comet. In addition to native English, I am verbally fluent in Russian, can carry on most conversations in American Sign Language (ASL), French, and Spanish; have low intermediate Japanese, and have studied Arabic and Mandarin. | |
Education | |
2004-2006 UC Berkeley 2002-2004 De Anza College | |
Other Experience | |
Working on two books: Meditation for Hackers: A dogma-free recipe book and Language Creation 101 (an introductory text in linguistics). Excerpt from Meditation for Hackers published in 2600 magazine, Summer 2008. AP – Calculus 5, French 4, Spanish 5; SAT I – 1570; SAT II – Math 800, English 780, French 780; Nat'l Merit Finalist 17 years’ experience playing piano, 5 years harpsichord, 1 year flute & ocarina 396 hours of certified training in massage therapy; Red Cross CPR/FPR & First Aid certified 4th kyu rank in Aikido; experience in karate, kung fu, and other martial arts Hobbies include ASL music interpretation, backpacking, sewing, & meditation | |
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