Bhushan S Tikar 609-***-****
Senior .Net Developer *******.*****@*****.***
Dynamic senior developer of software development teams offering 14+ years of IT experience managing technically challenging, mission-critical projects.
Skilled in all phases of the software development lifecycle; expert in translating business requirements into technical solutions; and fanatical about quality, usability, security and scalability.
PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:
Total 14+ years of experience.
11+ years of working with Microsoft Technologies: DOT.NET, C#,VB.NET, SQL Server, VB6, VBA
Exposure to Mean Stack, Angular 6, Bootstrap
3+ years of experience as Technical lead.
3 years of experience as offshore lead.
Strong experience in web application development and integrating with Microsoft word and excel
Excellent problem solving, communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Strong troubleshooting and organizational skills.
Played a key role in risk analysis product upgrade, business requirements analysis & production support for Microsoft based applications.
Strong experience in mentoring team members and documentation.
TECHNICAL SKILLS
Domain
Insurance
Programming Languages
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET – C#, VB.NET, XML, ADO.NET, CSS, .NET Framework 4.0, HTML, ASP.NET, MVC4, WebAPI, Web services, Angular 6, Mean Stack, Bootstrap
Microsoft Visual Studio 6 – Visual Basic 6, VBA
Operating System
Windows XP, Windows 7
Tools /DB/Packages
Tools -JRules Authoring, Filenet 5.2
Build Deployment – JIRA, Jenkins and Share point
Autosys jobs – CA workload automation
Database – SQLServer2005, 2014
Professional Certifications, Trainings / Seminars Attended
INS21 Insurance domain certification
ISTQB
IKM .NET C# certification
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Project 1
Project Name
Implementation of Multi Factor Authentication
Team Size
3
Client
Marsh USA Inc
Start Date
01-Jun-2018
End Date
Till Date
Description
To integrate Multi Factor Authentication in all dot net applications
Role & Contribution
Creating technical design documentation for implementation
Developed a generic class library responsible of calling the multi factor authentication services and receiving the response in Json
Integrating the calls in the login module of the applications
Generating error logs and sending the details in email
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, C#, VB.NET, Sqlserver 2014, Jscript
Tools
Share point
Key Achievements
The class library is reusable in all dot net applications with different framework and architecture.
Project 2
Project Name
NetCert Enhancements
Team Size
3
Client
Marsh USA Inc
Start Date
01-Dec-2017
End Date
31-May-2018
Description
Certificates of Insurance are produced on ACORD forms which are proprietary of ACORD as industry standard. Netcert application helps MARSH to create Certificates of different forms, issue certificates and send it either through E-mail or fax.
Role & Contribution
Involved in design and development of critical item for Generating reports in excel format for the Forms. Used 3rd party library to generate excel report on fly and save it on client side
Implemented ETL job for auditing purpose and deactivating user after 90 days
Prepared SQL scripts
Helped business in preparing the business requirement document
Involved in build and deployment activity
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, VS2010, VB.NET, Sqlserver 2014, Jscript
Tools
Share point, Clear case
Key Achievements
Generated excel reports on the fly without use of Msoffice and saving it on client machine with improved performance less than 5sec.
Project 3
Project Name
Elite Upgrade
Team Size
4
Client
Marsh USA Inc
Start Date
01-Aug-2016
End Date
30-Nov-2017
Description
Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC) and US Claims professionals currently use a suite of Thomson Elite products as a project accounting, time capture, and general ledger system
Role & Contribution
Played a key role of SME in the upgrading process of Elite and Metastorm
Involved in building the Dev, Uat and Production servers
Analyzed and identified all the SQL jobs and migrated to all Environments
Prepared technical documentation for upgrading production database and application/web servers
Involved in setting up of AD and Service accounts respective to the environments and their roles
Created packaging documentation for deployment on citrix environment
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, C#, VB.NET, Sqlserver 2014, Jscript
Tools
Service desk, Share point
Key Achievements
Automated manual process done by business that includes month end activity which involved running of SQL scripts
Integrated components this included suite of Elite product that is Elite enterprise which is desktop application, Webview which is a web application and Metastorm that is web application.
Guided application engineering and database team for performing various task to setup environments
Project 4
Project Name
MMC – G20 Service Center
Team Size
3
Client
Marsh USA Inc
Start Date
01-Oct-2015
End Date
31-Jul-2016
Description
Production Support for apps –
Marsh Risk Consulting (MRC) and US Claims professionals currently use a suite of Thomson Elite products as a project accounting, time capture, and general ledger system
QSG Tracker – .NET Web based application to track the placement specialist policies and SQL Server database
Role & Contribution
Played a key role in providing resolutions at user level by providing an ability through UI
Experience in writing the excel macros for QSG Tracker application for business to process and generate reports that help them to perform daily business work
Experience creating Restful web service that responded data in JSON format to the Excel
Experience in writing stored procedures to perform CRUD operations
Maintained application versions in Clear case
Contributed in updating the documentation for all the apps whenever required
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, VB.NET, Sqlserver 2014, MS Office Templates word & excel, VBA
Tools
Service desk, Share point, Clear case
Key Achievements
SOA architecture implemented for QSG Tracker app – Created a webservice which is requested by user and the response returned by service in JSON which is then consumed in excel form
Project 5
Project Name
Enterprise Loss Sensitive .NET version
Team Size
6
Client
Travelers, Hartford CT
Start Date
01-Jan-2014
End Date
30-Sep-2015
Description
ELS is a Pricing tool which derives premium using the historical data. This is a VB6 to .NET migrated application version. ELS is suite of applications and mix of technologies.
It includes technologies as Microsoft.NET, Java, JSF, .NET, Jrules, MS office templates Word and Excel.
Role & Contribution
Experience in writing Excel macros and creating Range names and writing a code to pass the values to these excel ranges dynamically for generating business reports
Played a key role in providing technical solution for Terrorism Premium update which need integration with Excel template through the C#.NET module which further integrated with the downstream system
Contributed in development activity for consuming web services in the application
Experience in writing and maintaining the code for Batch program in VB.NET
Involved and responsible for development activity for monthly versions from onshore which includes configuration changes, database changes, Stored procedure changes and template/rules changes
Involved in finalization of business requirements with BA’s
Playing a Senior Developer role from onsite which includes query resolution of offshore team. Contributed to the project by sharing the techno functional knowledge to the team. Helped the team in resolving technical problems. Mentoring the team in all the aspects
Involved in version planning, allocation and estimations. Estimation techniques used is Complexity point estimation technique
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio.NET, C#, VB.NET, FileNet and ILog–Jrules, Sqlserver 2012, MS Office Templates word & excel, VBA
Tools
Quality Center, Sharepoint, Jenkins
Key Achievements
Autosys Batch job migration from Database server to Application server –
Involved in setting up the application servers for autosys batch jobs
Technical challenges – In one of the batch that calls Filenet to get the data returned null. The new servers provided did not had a .net framework version that it was build into due which calls were failed.
Resolution – Batch job application framework needed to be upgraded from 3.5 to 4.0 with minimal code changes.
Project 6
Project Name
Loss Sensitive Pricing
Team Size
8
Client
Travelers, Hartford CT
Start Date
01-Aug-2007
End Date
31-Dec-2013
Description
LSP is a Pricing tool which derives the premium based on the historical data. LSP is a suite of application and mix of technologies. It includes technologies as Microsoft Visual Studio 6, Java, JSF, Jrules, MS Office Template word and excel, VBA
Role & Contribution
Experience in writing and analyzing code in VB6 and contributed in providing the technical solution for the critical enhancements and the impact in all the workflows
Integrated VB6 code with Excel and Word templates for generating the business reports and contributed in writing macros for excel
Played key role in providing technical solution for the LSP application to run on the machines having different resolutions 120dpi/90dpi by using windows API and minimal code changes
Played crucial role in analyzing and providing technical solution in upgrading the WordML 2003 templates to WordML2010 template version
Contributed in updating the documentation of the major enhancements by providing the technical and functional details.
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio 6, Java JSF, Filenet and ILog – Jrules, SqlServer 2005, MS office templates word and excel, VBA
Tools
Remedy, Quality Center, Sharepoint
Key Achievements
Migration of WordML 2003 templates to 2010 – Contributed in analyzing and providing the proposed solution for migrating the 2003 templates to 2010
Technical challenges – Support for XML tags were removed from Microsoft Office 2010
Resolution – Proposed solution for the replacement of xml tags with content controls.
Project 7
Project Name
National Property Workstation
Team Size
4
Client
Travelers, Hartford CT
Start Date
01-Aug-2005
End Date
31-July-2007
Description
NPW is a tool for calculating the insurance premium of Home, Office and Casualty having technologies as Microsoft Visual Studio 6.
Role & Contribution
Involved in development of enhancements and queue itemswhich includes referencing COM components and executing its methods which interacts with host systems
Involved in critical enhancement of Third party control – Farpoint grid
Performed implementation walkthrough’s of the items delivery to the client
Technologies
Microsoft Visual Studio 6, Sql server 2000
Tools
Remedy, Quality Center
Key Achievements
Enhancement of Farpoint Grid 2.5 control – Played a crucial role in analyzing the proposed solution for enhancing the Farpoint grid control from 2.5 to version 7
Technical challenges – Farpoint grid 2.5 and 3.5 versions were not supported
Resolution – Provided a solution for upgrading the control with minimal code changes.
Project 8
Project Name
AME – Financial Accounting System
Team Size
4
Client
Alpha Data Systems, India
Start Date
01-Jan-2003
End Date
31-July-2005
Description
AME – Financial Accounting System – This is the complete accounting system which generates the document like Trial balance and Balance sheet for a particular financial year, technologies involved is Clarion for Windows 6.
Role & Contribution
Quickly learned the Clarion for windows 6 – RAD
Involved in development of Ledger and Trial balance module
Provided support and customized solutions to the client
Technologies
Clarion for Windows 6, Topspeed database
Tools
Service desk
Key Achievements
Clarion for Windows 6 -Quickly learned the rapid application development tool and was involved in the critical modules of accounting system like Ledger and Trial balance generation modules.
Educational Qualification
Education & Credentials
B.E Computers
Visa Status - Valid H1B Visa till Oct 2020