Sandeep Bangalore .Net Professional, Bangalore, India

Summary

  • I have a total of 8.5 years of experience in several domains, most of which is in a product company in the US insurance industry.
  • Very good experience in interacting with customers from US & also with multidisciplinary teams in India & US.
  • Most of my technology experience is on the Microsoft stack, primarily web applications, web services & windows services.
  • Leading the technology team which is incharge of most of the consumer facing products at my current employer.

Skill Set

  • Development - Proficient in C#, Asp.Net, MVC, Javascript, javascript frameworks like jquery, jquery mobile, SQL, XML, XSD, SOAP Webservices, RESTful webservices, NUnit, windows services, SVN
  • Handling technical design & architecting solutions - Design the overall system / solution & convey the design to all stakeholders in an easily understandable manner via sequence diagrams, flow diagrams & technical design documents.
  • Effort estimation - Prepare a breakdown of tasks involved in a project, assess complexity, parallel tasks & estimate effort involved in each of the tasks
  • Code Review - Handle code reviews
  • Handling deployments - Deploy to test, uat & production environments. Handled manual deployments & deployments via cruise control. Experience in deploying web applications & windows services.
  • PreSales / Sales - Be the technical contact person, engage with technology teams of customers / vendors where required & provide answers, Review &provide feedback on SOW.
  • Project management
  • Team Management

Work Experience

Senior Lead in Webcetera Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bangalore from April 2006 to present (Total of 7+ years in different roles in Webcetera Software Solutions Pvt Ltd, Bangalore & Webcetera L.P USA)
Software Engineer in Swift Technologies, Bangalore from November 2004 April 2006

Projects

Consumer Quoting Mobile

This is our mobile optimized consumer quoting product. I was involved in this project right from conception to design, implementation, UAT & final delivery The existing product had to be enhanced to be mobile friendly & also at the same time not cause any risk to all of our existing customers & custom implementations.
Technology: C#, ASP.Net, SQL, jquery, jquerymobile, HTML, CSS.
Role:
  • Leading a team of 5 people on this project
  • Did the initial research, impact analysis & finalized a technology solution
  • Did the overall design of the solution
  • Project effort estimation
  • Involved in development
  • Mentored developers in implementation
  • Code reviews & deployments

Esurance Online policy binding

Esurance is one of the top online insurance carrier companies in the US. This project was to provide the quote finalization & policy binding for esurance within our product EZLynx. A platform for doing such integrations with any other carrier company is being built.
Client: Esurance and Wellsfargo, USA
Technology: C#, ASP.Net, SQL, jquery,HTML,CSS.
Role:
  • Leading a team of 4 people on this project
  • Involved in finalizing functional specs for our product changes & wireframing
  • Did the overall design of the solution
  • Project effort estimation
  • Mentoring senior level developers with implementation

Consumer facing & agency facing insurance solutions for Project CAP

CAP is an organization formed by the IIABA & several leading insurance carriers with the aim of generating & providing quality insurance leads to independent insurance agents across the US. The project involved customizing EZLynx consumer quoting product, development of several web services, enhancing EZLynx events & the development of a new javascript based api for client side callbacks. Client: CAP / trustedchoice.com, USA Technology: C#, ASP.Net, SQL, jquery,HTML,CSS.
Role:
  • Leading a team of 4 people on this project
  • Provided technology support for presales / sales discussions
  • Reviewed SOW & provided feedback
  • Did the overall design of the solution
  • Project effort estimation
  • Mentoring senior level developers with implementation
  • Designed & developed the javascript api & made it a standard feature of EZLynx Consumer Quoting product
  • Involved in code reviews & deployments
  • Customer interaction, Engaged with technology & business team of client right from sales/presales period to UAT & final delivery

Client Center

This is a brand new web based product to provide easy online self servicing for customers of insurance agencies. The technology used was ASP.NET MVC & I lead a team of 3 people on this project.
Technology: ASP.NET MVC, C#, SQL, Windows services, jquery, HTML, CSS
Role:
  • Lead a team of 3 senior developers
  • System design
  • Project effort estimation
  • Development
  • Involved in code reviews & deployments

Facebook application for consumer quoting

This project was to develop a facebook app for our consumer quoting product, so that it can be used on facebook pages of insurance agencies. I was responsible for this project right from conception to delivery. This became a standard feature & an important selling point for our consumer quoting product.
Technology: C#, ASP.NET MVC, SQL, FacebookSDK, jquery, CSS, HTML
Role:
  • Proposed the product & worked closely with business team in conceptualizing the idea.
  • Development, was the sole developer on the project

Consumer facing quoting solutions for WellsFargo

WellsFargo is one of the leading banks in US which is also into the insurance market. I have worked on multiple project for WellsFargo. One of the main ones was to provide a consumer quoting solution to them which was to be integrated on their website.
Client: WellsFargo, USA
Technology: C#, ASP.NET, SQL, Webservices, Windows services, jquery, CSS, HTML
Role:
  • Was involved in requirement gathering & specs finalization.
  • System design
  • Effort estimation
  • Customer interaction, Engaged with customer business & technology teams regularly to provide updates, discuss solutions etc
  • Development, was the sole developer on the initial project
  • Mentoring developers in implementation

Progressiveagent.com

This project was to provide an online insurance selling solution to progressive, a leading insurance carrier company in the US. Consumers are able to get an online quote & if interested, can continue & buy an auto insurance policy online through this application.
Client: Progressive, USA
Technology: C#, ASP.NET, SQL, jquery, HTML, CSS
Role:
  • Lead a team of 3 people on this project
  • System Design
  • Project effort estimation
  • Client interaction, Engaged with technology & business teams of the client to provide updates, discuss solutions etc
  • Development
  • Involved in code reviews
  • Delivered the project successfully in a very short amount of time

Some of other projects that I have worked on

  • Consumer Quoting Self Administration
  • Online consumer quoting solution for MAPFRE Florida
  • Wellsfargo ADA Compliance
  • Consumer quoting application for Mt. Washington
  • Consumer quoting application for PlymouthRock
  • Consumer quoting application for BunkerHill
  • WellsFargo Conusmer Quoting Enhancements
  • Poliseek consumer quoting application enahancements
  • BBVA consumer quoting application customization
  • Internet Suite Websites / Affiliate Sites
  • EZLynx Version 2.x enhancements
  • AgentInsure

Education

Bachelor of Engineering in Electronics & Communication from S.D.M.C.E.T, Dharwad, 2004
P.U from S.D.M College, Ujire, 2000
10th from Porrna Prajna High School, Belur, 1998

Personal Details

Email: sandeep.bangalore@gmail.com
Phone: 9739499946
Visa: Hold a B1 visa for USA valid until 2017.

Technology Skills

  • C#
  • ASP.NET
  • SQL
  • Javascript
  • jquery
  • jquery mobile
  • ASP.NET MVC
  • Web services
  • Windows services
  • HTML
  • CSS

Tools

  • Visual Studio
  • NUnit
  • SQL Server Management Studio
  • Sublime Text
  • Firebug
  • HttpWatch
  • SVN, Tortoise SVN
  • BeyondCompare
  • Scaleout State Server

Other Skills

  • Code reviews
  • Deployments
  • Poject Management
  • Team Management
  • System Design
  • Effort Estimation
  • PreSales / Sales support

Contact

9739499946
sandeep.bangalore@gmail.com