diff --git a/bigquery/cloud-client/pom.xml b/bigquery/cloud-client/pom.xml
index f6bb3cace9d..4a7badc1757 100644
--- a/bigquery/cloud-client/pom.xml
+++ b/bigquery/cloud-client/pom.xml
@@ -39,6 +39,11 @@
       <artifactId>google-cloud-bigquery</artifactId>
       <version>0.8.0-beta</version>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>joda-time</groupId>
+      <artifactId>joda-time</artifactId>
+      <version>2.9.7</version>
+    </dependency>
 
     <!-- Test dependencies -->
     <dependency>
diff --git a/bigquery/cloud-client/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/QueryParametersSample.java b/bigquery/cloud-client/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/QueryParametersSample.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b2ee9362b75
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/cloud-client/src/main/java/com/example/bigquery/QueryParametersSample.java
@@ -0,0 +1,286 @@
+/*
+  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package com.example.bigquery;
+
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQuery;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.BigQueryOptions;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.FieldValue;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryParameterValue;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryRequest;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryResponse;
+import com.google.cloud.bigquery.QueryResult;
+import org.joda.time.DateTime;
+import org.joda.time.DateTimeZone;
+import org.joda.time.format.DateTimeFormatter;
+import org.joda.time.format.ISODateTimeFormat;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Arrays;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.List;
+import java.util.stream.Collectors;
+
+/**
+ * A sample that demonstrates use of query parameters.
+ */
+public class QueryParametersSample {
+  private static final int ERROR_CODE = 1;
+
+  private static void printUsage() {
+    System.err.println("Usage:");
+    System.err.printf(
+        "\tmvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=%s -Dexec.args='%s'\n",
+        QueryParametersSample.class.getCanonicalName(),
+        "${sample}");
+    System.err.println();
+    System.err.println("${sample} can be one of: named, array, timestamp");
+    System.err.println();
+    System.err.println("Usage for ${sample}=named:");
+    System.err.printf(
+        "\tmvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=%s -Dexec.args='%s'\n",
+        QueryParametersSample.class.getCanonicalName(),
+        "named ${corpus} ${minWordCount}");
+    System.err.println();
+    System.err.println("Usage for sample=array:");
+    System.err.printf(
+        "\tmvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=%s -Dexec.args='%s'\n",
+        QueryParametersSample.class.getCanonicalName(),
+        "array ${gender} ${states...}");
+    System.err.println();
+    System.err.println("\twhere ${gender} can be on of: M, F");
+    System.err.println(
+        "\tand ${states} is any upper-case 2-letter code for U.S. a state, e.g. CA.");
+    System.err.println();
+    System.err.printf(
+        "\t\tmvn exec:java -Dexec.mainClass=%s -Dexec.args='%s'\n",
+        QueryParametersSample.class.getCanonicalName(),
+        "array F MD WA");
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Prompts the user for the required parameters to perform a query.
+   */
+  public static void main(final String[] args) throws IOException, InterruptedException {
+    if (args.length < 1) {
+      System.err.println("Expected first argument 'sample'");
+      printUsage();
+      System.exit(ERROR_CODE);
+    }
+    String sample = args[0];
+
+    switch (sample) {
+      case "named":
+        if (args.length != 3) {
+          System.err.println("Unexpected number of arguments for named query sample.");
+          printUsage();
+          System.exit(ERROR_CODE);
+        }
+        runNamed(args[1], Long.parseLong(args[2]));
+        break;
+      case "array":
+        if (args.length < 2) {
+          System.err.println("Unexpected number of arguments for array query sample.");
+          printUsage();
+          System.exit(ERROR_CODE);
+        }
+        String gender = args[1];
+        String[] states = Arrays.copyOfRange(args, 2, args.length);
+        runArray(gender, states);
+        break;
+      case "timestamp":
+        if (args.length != 1) {
+          System.err.println("Unexpected number of arguments for timestamp query sample.");
+          printUsage();
+          System.exit(ERROR_CODE);
+        }
+        runTimestamp();
+        break;
+      default:
+        System.err.println("Got bad value for sample");
+        printUsage();
+        System.exit(ERROR_CODE);
+    }
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Query the Shakespeare dataset for words with count at least {@code minWordCount} in the corpus
+   * {@code corpus}.
+   */
+  // [START bigquery_query_params]
+  private static void runNamed(final String corpus, final long minWordCount)
+      throws InterruptedException {
+    BigQuery bigquery =
+        new BigQueryOptions.DefaultBigqueryFactory().create(BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance());
+
+    String queryString = "SELECT word, word_count\n"
+        + "FROM `bigquery-public-data.samples.shakespeare`\n"
+        + "WHERE corpus = @corpus\n"
+        + "AND word_count >= @min_word_count\n"
+        + "ORDER BY word_count DESC";
+    QueryRequest queryRequest =
+        QueryRequest.newBuilder(queryString)
+            .addNamedParameter("corpus", QueryParameterValue.string(corpus))
+            .addNamedParameter("min_word_count", QueryParameterValue.int64(minWordCount))
+            // Standard SQL syntax is required for parameterized queries.
+            // See: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/
+            .setUseLegacySql(false)
+            .build();
+
+    // Execute the query.
+    QueryResponse response = bigquery.query(queryRequest);
+
+    // Wait for the job to finish (if the query takes more than 10 seconds to complete).
+    while (!response.jobCompleted()) {
+      Thread.sleep(1000);
+      response = bigquery.getQueryResults(response.getJobId());
+    }
+
+    if (response.hasErrors()) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(
+          response
+              .getExecutionErrors()
+              .stream()
+              .<String>map(err -> err.getMessage())
+              .collect(Collectors.joining("\n")));
+    }
+
+    QueryResult result = response.getResult();
+    Iterator<List<FieldValue>> iter = result.iterateAll();
+
+    while (iter.hasNext()) {
+      List<FieldValue> row = iter.next();
+      System.out.printf(
+          "%s: %d\n",
+          row.get(0).getStringValue(),
+          row.get(1).getLongValue());
+    }
+  }
+  // [END bigquery_query_params]
+
+  /**
+   * Query the baby names database to find the most popular names for a gender in a list of states.
+   */
+  // [START bigquery_query_params_arrays]
+  private static void runArray(String gender, String[] states)
+      throws InterruptedException {
+    BigQuery bigquery =
+        new BigQueryOptions.DefaultBigqueryFactory().create(BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance());
+
+    String queryString = "SELECT name, sum(number) as count\n"
+        + "FROM `bigquery-public-data.usa_names.usa_1910_2013`\n"
+        + "WHERE gender = @gender\n"
+        + "AND state IN UNNEST(@states)\n"
+        + "GROUP BY name\n"
+        + "ORDER BY count DESC\n"
+        + "LIMIT 10;";
+    QueryRequest queryRequest =
+        QueryRequest.newBuilder(queryString)
+            .addNamedParameter("gender", QueryParameterValue.string(gender))
+            .addNamedParameter(
+                "states",
+                QueryParameterValue.array(states, String.class))
+            // Standard SQL syntax is required for parameterized queries.
+            // See: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/
+            .setUseLegacySql(false)
+            .build();
+
+    // Execute the query.
+    QueryResponse response = bigquery.query(queryRequest);
+
+    // Wait for the job to finish (if the query takes more than 10 seconds to complete).
+    while (!response.jobCompleted()) {
+      Thread.sleep(1000);
+      response = bigquery.getQueryResults(response.getJobId());
+    }
+
+    if (response.hasErrors()) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(
+          response
+              .getExecutionErrors()
+              .stream()
+              .<String>map(err -> err.getMessage())
+              .collect(Collectors.joining("\n")));
+    }
+
+    QueryResult result = response.getResult();
+    Iterator<List<FieldValue>> iter = result.iterateAll();
+
+    while (iter.hasNext()) {
+      List<FieldValue> row = iter.next();
+      System.out.printf("%s: %d\n", row.get(0).getStringValue(), row.get(1).getLongValue());
+    }
+  }
+  // [END bigquery_query_params_arrays]
+
+  // [START bigquery_query_params_timestamps]
+  private static void runTimestamp() throws InterruptedException {
+    BigQuery bigquery =
+        new BigQueryOptions.DefaultBigqueryFactory().create(BigQueryOptions.getDefaultInstance());
+
+    // Timestamps are expected to be in the format YYYY-MM-DD HH:MM:SS.DDDDDD time_zone
+    // See: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/reference/standard-sql/data-types#timestamp-type
+    DateTime timestamp = new DateTime(2016, 12, 7, 8, 0, 0, DateTimeZone.UTC);
+
+    String queryString = "SELECT TIMESTAMP_ADD(@ts_value, INTERVAL 1 HOUR);";
+    QueryRequest queryRequest =
+        QueryRequest.newBuilder(queryString)
+            .addNamedParameter(
+                "ts_value",
+                QueryParameterValue.timestamp(
+                    // Timestamp takes microseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 UTC
+                    timestamp.getMillis() * 1000))
+            // Standard SQL syntax is required for parameterized queries.
+            // See: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/sql-reference/
+            .setUseLegacySql(false)
+            .build();
+
+    // Execute the query.
+    QueryResponse response = bigquery.query(queryRequest);
+
+    // Wait for the job to finish (if the query takes more than 10 seconds to complete).
+    while (!response.jobCompleted()) {
+      Thread.sleep(1000);
+      response = bigquery.getQueryResults(response.getJobId());
+    }
+
+    if (response.hasErrors()) {
+      throw new RuntimeException(
+          response
+              .getExecutionErrors()
+              .stream()
+              .<String>map(err -> err.getMessage())
+              .collect(Collectors.joining("\n")));
+    }
+
+    QueryResult result = response.getResult();
+    Iterator<List<FieldValue>> iter = result.iterateAll();
+
+    DateTimeFormatter formatter = ISODateTimeFormat.dateTimeNoMillis().withZoneUTC();
+    while (iter.hasNext()) {
+      List<FieldValue> row = iter.next();
+      System.out.printf(
+          "%s\n",
+          formatter.print(
+              new DateTime(
+                  // Timestamp values are returned in microseconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00 UTC,
+                  // but org.joda.time.DateTime constructor accepts times in milliseconds.
+                  row.get(0).getTimestampValue() / 1000,
+                  DateTimeZone.UTC)));
+    }
+  }
+  // [END bigquery_query_params_timestamps]
+}
diff --git a/bigquery/cloud-client/src/test/java/com/example/bigquery/QueryParametersSampleIT.java b/bigquery/cloud-client/src/test/java/com/example/bigquery/QueryParametersSampleIT.java
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..4577850d872
--- /dev/null
+++ b/bigquery/cloud-client/src/test/java/com/example/bigquery/QueryParametersSampleIT.java
@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@
+/*
+  Copyright 2016 Google Inc.
+
+  Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+  you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+
+      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+
+  Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+  distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+  WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+  See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+  limitations under the License.
+*/
+
+package com.example.bigquery;
+
+import static com.google.common.truth.Truth.assertThat;
+
+import org.junit.After;
+import org.junit.Before;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
+import java.io.PrintStream;
+
+/**
+ * Tests for simple app sample.
+ */
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+@SuppressWarnings("checkstyle:abbreviationaswordinname")
+public class QueryParametersSampleIT {
+  private ByteArrayOutputStream bout;
+  private PrintStream out;
+
+  @Before
+  public void setUp() {
+    bout = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
+    out = new PrintStream(bout);
+    System.setOut(out);
+  }
+
+  @After
+  public void tearDown() {
+    System.setOut(null);
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testNamedSample() throws Exception {
+    QueryParametersSample.main(new String[]{"named", "romeoandjuliet", "100"});
+    String got = bout.toString();
+    assertThat(got).contains("love");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testArraySample() throws Exception {
+    QueryParametersSample.main(new String[]{"array", "M", "WA", "WI", "WV", "WY"});
+    String got = bout.toString();
+    assertThat(got).contains("James");
+  }
+
+  @Test
+  public void testTimestampSample() throws Exception {
+    QueryParametersSample.main(new String[]{"timestamp"});
+    String got = bout.toString();
+    assertThat(got).contains("2016-12-07T09:00:00Z");
+  }
+}