Bhushan S Tikar 609-***-****

Senior .Net Developer ac9ok6@r.postjobfree.com

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

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