1. 2200 Waterview Parkway, Apt# 25209, Richardson, TX-75080
SYED MASTHAN syedmasthan@yahoo.co.uk
Cell: 972-900-2707
PROFILE Graduate student in Computer Science seeking a challenging position in Software Design and Development.
• 3 years professional experience in Application development using Java / J2EE and basics of C#.NET
• Basic academic knowledge of Systems development using C/C++
• Currently pursuing course work in the area of “Intelligent Systems” at University of Texas at Dallas
• Strong communication and leadership skills
EDUCATION Master of Science in Computer Science, GPA: 3.83 (current)
THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS, Richardson, Texas, Expected Date of Graduation: December 2008
Bachelor of Engineering in Computer Science, GPA: 3.9
UNIVERSITY OF MADRAS, Chennai, India, May 2004
SKILLS Java / J2EE technologies: Core Java, JSP, Servlets, Struts, iBatis, Eclipse, IntelIJ, NetBeans, Tomcat, Weblogic 8.1
Systems Development: C/C++, Socket Programming, Threading, shell scripting
Microsoft Techologies: C#.NET, ASP.NET, Visual Studio, VB, WINFORMS, Windows, SQL Server, MS Office, VSS
Web, Databases & Operating Systems: Oracle8i, SQL, XSLT, XPath, XQuery, Unix, Linux, HTML, XML, JavaScript
Natural Languages: English, Hindi, Tamil, Urdu, French
WORK EXPERIENCE
Systems Developer Intern at Barclays Global Investors June 08 – August 08
• Developed a web based tool, from the ground up using Java / J2EE technologies for the Active Equities Group. This is used
by the Portfolio Managers and Developers, for analyzing the causes for lost/delayed trading days.
• Gained knowledge through interaction and sessions about the Investment Management domain.
Research Assistant at University of Texas at Dallas January 08 – May 08
• Worked on a J2EE based Web application designed for telecommunication companies.
Software Engineering Intern at CARREKER (Now part of FISERV) Corporation, Dallas, TX May 07 – December 07
• Designed and Developed Web based applications, developed using J2EE (Java Enterprise Edition).
• Worked on products developed for the banking domain.
Software Engineer at INFOSYS Technologies, Chennai, INDIA September 04 - July 06
• Designed, developed and tested Web Applications using C#.NET (Dot NET) and J2EE.
• Developed complete web solutions involving design, integration and deployment of the website and lead a team of 4
members. Conducted many Knowledge Transfer/Information sessions on new technologies to the team members.
COURSES: Software Architecture and Design, Machine Learning, Database, Artificial Intelligence, Data Structures and Algorithms,
Information Retrieval, Advanced Operating Systems, Unix, Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, Natural Language Processing
ACADEMIC PROJECTS
• Distributed Application (Java): Implemented the Chandy Lamport Snapshot algorithm with vector clocks for it.
• Rollback Recovery in Distributed System (Java): Implemented a random distributed message passing algorithm which
takes Checkpoints during message exchange and then recover from a predetermined sequence of failures.
• Automated Trading System (Current Pet Project) (C++.NET): Understand the components involved in building an ATS and
how to put them together to form a complete system. More focused toward the technological aspects than financial.
• Simple Chat: (C++) Simple Chat server with distributed chat clients communicating with each other in a round robin method.
• Search Engine (Java, Tomcat, Servlets): Crawling, indexing and ranking of pages for a specific topic.
• Development of the Nine Men Morris Game (C++ / Java): Designed and implemented a variant of the Nine Men Morris
Game. Used Game Trees (Minimax and Alpha Beta pruning algorithm).
• Evaluated a proposed Machine Learning (C++ / Java): Evaluated a proposed modification for ADABOOST algorithm.
• Firewall (Network Programming in C) the firewall would run as a daemon on a machine separating the company network from
the Internet. It would filter the packets according to the set rules.
HONORS AND • “Outstanding Performance Award” in high school examinations.
AWARDS • Runner-up Champion of the Nine Men Morris Game Tournament, in the Artificial Intelligence Class.
• Vice-President of the Indian Students association (ISA) at UTD 07 - 08
VISA STATUS F1

2. AVAILABILITY Jan 1, 2009
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