Tarun Bablani
Charlottesville, VA
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CAREER OVERVIEW
Application Developer with Solid Business and Management Skills. Proven
Experience in Project Management, Team Building, Mentoring.
Areas of Expertise:
. Web Services
. Software Engineering ( Software Development
Life Cycle (SDLC)
. Software Project Management ( SQL Server
6.5/7.0,2000
. ASP.Net 2.0, 3.5 ( Windows Form
Development
. Windows Workflow Foundation ( ASP Dynamic Data Web
Sites
. AJAX Development ( Visual Basic 6.0
. GUI Design ( Crystal Reports
. Share Point MOSS 2007 ( JQuery
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Cap Gemini
Feb
2005 - Present
Engagements Undertaken:
Coach Inc., New York, NY
Feb 2011
-Present
Application Developer, Forecasting Application
Coach provides retail merchandising of leather goods. Working on a
redesigning an existing application used to track demand and supply of
material and finished goods.
Contributions:
. Business requirement analysis to capture the current project
requirements.
. Worked on the scope of the project and project plan.
. Worked on re-designing the user interface for the application.
. Helped the client to set up an offshore team of developers to develop
the application.
SYNTHES, Charlottesville, VA
Jan 2011 - Feb 2011
Senior Lead Developer, SharePoint 2010
Developed a education site for medical surgeons to lookup for video and
literature related
to medical surgical procedures.
Contributions:
. Developed custom application pages to show content for the site.
. Managed a team of developers.
. Developed a tool to extract data from excel files to SharePoint lists.
CFA, Charlottesville, VA
May 2009 - Jan
2011
Senior Lead Developer, SharePoint Portal
Developed a SharePoint portal site for CFA Institute.
Contributions:
. Responsible for writing technical specification documents.
. Developed Web Parts using share point object model.
. Custom event handlers to write data from SharePoint lists to a SQL
Database.
. Developed and designed a recommendation engine to recommend products
based on user preferences.
. Import and exported content using Share point content deployment
wizard.
. Managed and deployed SharePoint master pages, workflows, sites, pages,
lists, libraries.
. Developed customized reports
. Responsible for creating share point deployment packages with WSP
Builder.
. Managed a team of developers
Towers Perrin, Chicago, IL
Feb 2009 - May
2009
Senior Lead Developer, Survey Processor Application
Worked with a team of developers to develop a composite framework for
survey design in order to do HR surveys.
Contributions:
. Conducted business requirements for the project.
. Responsible for writing technical specification, Interface documents
. Responsible for coordinating activities with off shore team on a daily
basis.
Dell Inc., Austin, TX
Jun
2008 - Jan 2009
Senior Lead Developer, Survey Processor Application
Developed a Window based .Net application. Application was used to gather
survey responses and generate a customized document based on the responses
for various clients for the organization.
Contributions:
. Developed the application using C#, window Service.
. Responsible for designing and coding the application business logic
and application flow.
. Reviewed requirements with clients ensuring a full understanding of
the client's expectations.
. Responsible for configuring VSTS and doing team builds
. Developed work flow component for the application using windows
workflow foundation.
Georgia Pacific, New York, NY
Aug 2005 - May 2008
Senior Lead Developer, Sales Sourcing Application
Developed a windows based .net application. The application helped the
organization do it day to day business activities from sales to finance
operations.
Contributions:
. Developed the project using VB.Net, windows form and SQL Server 2000
. Responsible for designing and developing various modules of the
application like Sales Order Entry, Transportation Management, Export
Management, Bookkeeping & Finance.
. Report development using Crystal Reports
. Reviewed requirements with clients ensuring a full understanding of
the client's expectations.
. Mentored junior developers on the team.
. Responsible for leading a team of developer's offsite.
Coach Inc., New York, NY
Feb 2005 - Jul
2005
Application Developer, Forecasting Application
Coach provides retail merchandising of leather goods. Developed a Windows
based .Net application to be used by the management to forecast next year
pricing and sales.
Contributions:
. Business requirement analysis.
. Database Design - Created schemas and made presentations of database
design concepts and theories, based on business processes and
technical specifications.
. Designed the application using ASP.NET, VB.Net, and ADO.NET.
. Created stored procedures in MS SQL Server 2000.
. Reports created in Crystal 8.5 and used with .Net windows application
TD Waterhouse, Jersey City, NJ
Oct 2004 - Jan
2005
Developer, Trading Portal Redesign
The TD Water House Web Portal provides investors with a broad range of
brokerage, mutual fund, banking and consumer financial products and
services. The redesign effort is a major undertaking to present a more user
friendly and intuitive user interface to the investor community.
Contributions:
. Worked on user interface for the web site. This included creating
Trading pages, Mutual Fund Pages, Stocks Preview Pages, Account
Balance Pages, Extended Hour Pages, Stocks Agreement pages.
. Integrated Vendor Pages to work from TD Water House Web Site.
. Implemented client script form validation using Java-Script
. Developed Functional Specification for the application
. Created deployment plan for QA Test Team
. Created Test Plans for the QA Team
Bell Canada, Markham, Canada
Jan 2004 - Sep 2004
Developer, Call Performance Management System
Compass is a Web based application designed for Bell Canada to monitor and
track performance of agents at various call centers in Ontario Canada. The
application was developed using ASP.Net/HTML as front-end, VB.Net as code-
behind logic and ADO.Net for accessing/manipulating the database.
Contributions:
. Managed development of the project assigning tasks, coordinating and
developing schedules with developers on-site and in India
. Designed Entity relationship model for the application
. Worked on user design interface for the application
. Integrated the application to work with Teradata.
Department of Buildings, The City Of New York, New York, NY
Jan 2003 - Dec 2003
Lead Developer, Contact Management and Registration System
The Contact Management and Registration System is a Client Server
application that facilitates the collection and registration contact
information about outdoor advertising agencies and advertising signs posted
by the advertising agencies in New York.
Contributions:
. Designed the Functional specifications for the system.
. Created User interface for the application
. Developed business logic for the application using Com components
written in Visual basic 6.0
. Integrated Custom reports into the system using Crystal Reports 8.0.
. Wrote PL/SQL procedures for the application
. Managed a team of 3 people on the project
Vlinx Inc., Vancouver, Canada
May 2000 - Dec
2002
Application Developer, Vlinx Online Negotiation Engine
Developed an ecommerce web application to enable buyers and suppliers to do
online negotiation of products and services
Contributions:
. Implemented the classical three-tier architecture.
. Created tables, views and stored procedures in SQL 7.0.
. Developed the VB COM+ Components as ActiveX DLL or ActiveX EXE.
. Implemented the core business logic in VB COM components.
. Calling the VB COM+ component interfaces through ASP.
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA
Dec 1999 - May 2000
Application Developer, Help Center Application for Microsoft Windows
(Contract)
Help Centre Application for Microsoft Windows
Contributions:
. Created Web based Prototypes for Windows Help Centre Application.
. The User interface for the prototypes was developed using Active
Server Pages, Html, CSS, VBScript and dynamic HTML.
. Fixed errors in the Bug reporting Tools Part of the Help Centre
Application. The Bug reporting Tools is used to upload error reports
from Users in case any Microsoft application causes an error while
working.
. The Bug reporting tools was developed using Active Server Pages and
Com Components Written in C++.
EDUCATION
University of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada
Bachelor of Business Administration, Information Technology
University of Delhi, New Delhi, India
Bachelor of Commerce
REFERENCES
Available upon Request