RAJ MISTRY
1319 11th St. #4 
Santa Monica, CA  90401
 [Send email to request phone number] 14-4747
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SUMMARY
Well rounded software architect with 12 years of experience in application
design and development.  Very strong skills in C/C++ (12 years), Windows/MFC (10
years), JAVA (7 years), and SQL (10 years).  Seeking a telecommuting position.

EXPERIENCE
PHATNOISE, INC. (acquired by Harman Kardon International in August 2005)	Los
Angeles, CA
Software Architect (employee #4)	June 1999 - Present
•	Started PC Software Division to develop digital media management software
(similar to Apple’s iTunes)
•	Designed and developed several PC software applications which were sold with
PhatNoise’s hardware products (using Visual C++, MFC, COM, ATL, Win32, SQL, JAVA,
Perl, XML/XSL)
•	Designed and developed a P2P application that streams music to Apple’s iPhone
(Apache, C, Tomcat, JAVA)
•	Worked with customers to improve software quality, reducing customer support
requests by 50%
•	Delivered PC software applications to over 100,000 customers, contributing to
$8 million in revenue
•	Chose, negotiated with, and managed Chinese software outsourcing vendor to
reduce development costs by 80%
•	Worked with senior management to develop marketing strategies for our new
products

SCIENT	San Francisco, CA
Senior Associate	September 1999 – February 2001
•	Led team of 8 software engineers to develop, test, and successfully deploy an
online patient monitoring system (using Weblogic, J2EE, JAVA, Oracle) for a
medical devices company
•	Independently designed and delivered an internal database driven system to
facilitate knowledge sharing across several different projects
•	Worked closely with clients to gather business requirements and develop system
design
•	Designed software architecture using UML and Rational Rose
•	Interviewed and hired employees for both Scient and clients

ACCENTURE	Los Angeles, CA
Technology Analyst	September 1998 – September 1999
•	Worked in large teams to design, develop, test, and deploy complex IT systems
for several Fortune 500 clients
•	Designed and developed an Oracle database to optimize reporting and
transactions (using SQL and PL/SQL)
•	Designed and developed an eCommerce application for a large PC retailer (using
C++ and TIBCO)

UCLA Office of Academic Computing	Los Angeles, CA
Analyst (part time)	September 1996 – June 1998
•	Designed and developed scripts for UNIX system maintenance (using csh, Perl)
•	Created a web interface to allow users to remotely use a processor intensive
math/stats application (using C, JAVA and Perl) 

EDUCATION
UCLA ANDERSON SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT	Los Angeles, CA
M.B.A.	June 2007
•	Leadership: Vice President, South Asian Business Association
•	Membership: Entrepreneur Association, High Tech Business Association

UCLA	Los Angeles, CA 
B.S. Computer Science	 June 1998 
•	Leadership: President, Tau Beta Pi Engineering Honor Society. Secretary, Sigma
Pi Fraternity

TECHNICAL SKILLS 
C/C++, Win32, MFC, COM, ATL, JAVA, JSP, J2EE, SQL, Oracle, MySQL, XML, Perl,
ASP, UNIX, Linux, UML