Bennett Fonacier
9 Duncan Hill Court, San Ramon, CA 94583 * 925.785.5793 * bennett@fonacier.com
Summary Over 10 years experience in software development, including requirements
analysis, design, research, development, implementation & training of software
systems, and intelligent enterprise integration. Provide technical leadership for
many types of software projects. Strong experience in ASP.NET, C#, VB.NET,
Visual Studio, .NET 1.1/2.0/3.0/3.5. Experience modeling and designing
relational databases; expertise in gathering requirements and guiding clients to
define scope for best solutions; expert in establishing process for full cycle
software development projects. Effective team member, dedicated to a solution
oriented environment. Extensive experience defining how products should be
implemented, providing estimates and schedules. Interact with customers,
business and technical teams. Willing to learn and handle any tasks needed.
Proficient in Windows Forms. Excellent ASP.NET/VB.NET/C# skills in Visual
Studio 2000/2003/2005/2008. Object Oriented Programming in C#/VB
including creating class, data members & methods, creating events, interfaces,
use of access modifiers, overloading and other OO concepts. Experience in
writing and use of SQL statements, views, stored procedures, triggers, extract
data to the front end interface. Experience in working on two-tier/three-tier/n-
tier client server application architectures.
Skills:
Hardware: Microsoft Windows Smartphone, desktop, laptop, server. Apple Mac.
Operating Systems: Macintosh, Linux, Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista and Dos
Software:
Languages: Sql, Visual Basic, C/C++/C#, HTML, JavaScript, Java.
Rdbms: Access, MSDE, SQL Server Express, SQL Server, MySQL
Applications: Microsoft Office 97/2000/2003/2007
Backup: Vista backup status and configuration
Data Modeling: Visual Studio
Tools/Others: Visual Studio Team System, Nunit and mbunit, Crystal Report, Silk QA Partner,
Dreamweaver, Microsoft Expression Studio.
Jun 07 – Feb 08 www.haas.berkeley.edu/groups/yeah
Web Developer
Accomplishments:
Team member that helps provide feedback to the design team.
Develop and integrate website using the following IDE and tools: Visual
Studio 2008, Microsoft Expression Studio, Dreamweaver, and Flex 2.
Environment: MS Visual Studio 2008, MS Expression Studio, Adobe
Dreamweaver, Adobe Flex 2, MXML, JavaScript, XML, HTML, Ajax Extension
Jan 07 – Dec 07 Wells Fargo, Concord, CA
Senior Software Architect consultant
Accomplishments:
Perform requirements analysis, design, coding, unit testing, and integration
testing.
Write Technical Specifications
Write and review use cases. Work closely with users and senior
management to analyze business process and to gather requirements.
Help define use cases and end-to-end test scenarios.
Develop Windows Forms user interface (UI) with user, data and business
process integration.
Develop Renamer and RenamerDT tool using Visual Studio 2005, SQL
Server 2005 Express, Access 2000/2003, C#.NET WinForms. Employ test
driven development (TDD) to some parts of the WinForm application that
can handle unit test using nunit, mbunit test Framework. Develop a test plan
and deployment plan. Employ Microsoft background process component,
Infragistics component, pdf file API, document state/staging, and
concurrency.
Provide user documentation, release notes and online help objects to help
train and mentor the user how to use the application. Provide best practice
documentation.
Provide and setup User Acceptance Test (UAT) at the end of software
development life cycle (SDLC).
Increased the departments overall daily pdf loan document process by
1000% and reduced error close to 0%.
Environment: SQL Server 2005, Access, Windows Forms .NET 2.0
Jan 06 – Jan 07 www.CollegeTrack.com
Web Developer
Accomplishments:
Team member that helps provide feedback to the design team.
Develop a donor database based on SalesForce.com UI.
Provide User Acceptance Testing
Provide User Training on the SalesForce.com system.
Environment: SalesForce.com, MS Excel, MS Word, MS Access
Jun 06 – Oct 06 www.frodgers.com
Web Developer
Accomplishments:
Work closely with senior management to put their vision on the web.
Primary Designer: responsible for the public website and private intranet
SharePoint 3.0 site.
Works with diverse web technologies to design, build, test, and implement
solutions and applications for the company ().
Setup SharePoint v2 with Active Directory for intranet security.
Applies user experience, and usability best practices to the design, test and
development of web-based systems and solutions; leads and/or participates
in technology initiatives which include new development and other web
development efforts.
Researches, evaluates, and recommends web-based solutions and
emerging technologies in the development of the web sites.
Project owner and a strong player;
Provide feedback and solutions to the creative department during the
conceptual phases of a project; collaborate with and assist Graphic
Designers to ensure that usability and information architecture inform all
interface designs.
Environment: C#, VS.2005, SQL Server 2005, Express, and Dreamweaver
Studio 2004.
Jan 05 – Jan 06 www.thewatershedproject.com
Web Developer
Accomplishments:
Team member that helps provide feedback to the design team.
Help designed and implemented a non-profit website that provides
community education and volunteering programs.
Remotely deploy the website on a LAMP stack.
Environment: Linux, Apache, HTML, PHP, JavaScript
Jun 05 – Dec 05 www.Medefinance.com
UI Developer
Accomplishments:
Team member that helps provide feedback to the design team.
Perform on demand tasks as necessary to develop Web Applications for the
prototype stage.
Work within a Rapid Application Development Process delivering
multidimensional .NET charting technologies using Dundas and Visual
Studio 2003 applications to develop executive dashboards.
Develop products by gathering requirements using workshops and focus
groups, by on-demand prototyping, early, reiterative user testing of designs,
constant re-use of software components and preparing test data for trial
runs.
Environment: HTML, JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Access, Excel, SQL
Server 2000/SQL Server 2005
Dec 03 – Apr 04 www.bavc.org
ASP.NET Developer
Accomplishments:
Team member that helps provide feedback to the design team.
Perform on demand tasks as necessary to develop Web Applications for the
prototype stage.
Work within a Rapid Application Development Process delivering
multidimensional .NET technologies using Visual Studio 2003 to develop
executive dashboards.
Develop modules by gathering requirements using workshops and focus
groups.
Environment: HTML, JavaScript, C#, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Access, Excel, SQL
Server 2000
Jun 01 – Apr 03 www.isfisf.org
ASP.NET Developer
Accomplishments:
Team member that helps provide feedback to the design team.
Managed, designed and developed the web component modules for the
non-profit website.
Update and maintain website content. Perform manual regression test on
webpage.
Use Excel 97 file and Access 97 to display product information online. Use
TSQL to extract data to/from Excel.
Provide website hosting with 99% uptime and 24/7 service.
Environment: HTML, JavaScript, ASP.NET, ADO.NET, Access, Excel
Dec 87 – Apr 01 Consultant
Test Engineer, QA Lead/Senior QA Engineer
Companies:
Jan 2001 to Apr 2001 Ericsson, Berkeley, CA
Sept 2000 to Dec 2000 Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA
May 1999 to Dec 2000 Pacific Bell Internet, San Francisco, CA.
Mar 1999 to May 1999 VTEL, San Jose, CA.
Jan 1999 to Mar 1999 On-link, Foster City, CA.
May 1998 to Dec 1998 Cisco Systems, San Jose, CA.
Dec 1997 to May 1998 Glenayre Western Multiplex,
Feb 1996 to Mar 1997 Perkin-Elmer Applied Biosystems Division,
Foster City, CA.
May 1997 to Aug, 1997 McAfee Associates, San Jose, CA.
Nov 1995 to Apr 1996 Novell, San Jose, CA.
Sep 1995 to Nov 1995 ADP, San Ramon, CA.
Jul 1993 to Oct 1993 Visa, Foster City, CA.
Apr 1992 to Jun 1992 Telebit, San Jose, CA.
Mar 1989 to Jul 1995 Apple Computer, Inc., Cupertino, CA.
Apr 1988 to Mar 1989 Claris Corporation. San Jose, CA.
Jan 1988 to Feb 1988 Borland, Inc. Scotts Valley, CA.
Dec 1987 to Jan 1988 Wyse, San Jose, CA.
Environment: PC, Mac, Unix, Oracle, SQL 2000, SQL, PL/SQL, FileMaker,
Access, QA Partner
Dec 80 – Dec 86 Humana Hospital, San Antonio, TX
Respiratory Care Technician
Dec 76 – Dec 86 U.S. Air Force
Medical Service Technician, Cardio-Pulmonary Technician
Education: Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, UTSA, USA