Derek A. Benner
http://home.comcast.net/~dabenner/
6666 Flaming Arrow Drive
Citrus Heights, CA 95621
USA
(916) 728-2351
delphidb@comcast.net

PROFESSIONAL SKILLS
  • Knowledge of all levels of MS Access application development, including integration with SQL databases, accessing from VB applications and display and useage by ASP web applications.
    10 years
  • Knowledge of, and professional application development in, Delphi using any version from 1.0 to the current version.
    6+ years
  • Development of custom accounting and billing applications for generic or specialty uses, including insurance, publishing and retail sales industries.
    12 years
  • Development of applications in Visual Basic for professional use.
    8 years
  • Development and design of relational and sql databases for use by customer applications, including task analysis, development of specifications and requirements, porting from one database format to another, and development of queries, stored procedures and triggers.
    9 years.

WORK EXPERIENCE
May 00 - Aug 00 Maxim Group (contract, ASP Web Programmer
Developed custom ASP website to handle the display of available product and to handle shopping cart submission. Also developed NT service to do daily download of available product catalog database.
Jan 00 - Jan 00 Robert Half, International (contract), MS Access Programmer
Upgraded CA Dept of Corrections MDO Department's MDO Tracking application to handle additional reporting and tracking requirements.
Dec 99 - Jan 00 Maxim Group (contract), MS Access Programmer
Ported three custom dBase III DOS-based applications to work in Windows 98/MS Access.
Jul 99 - Oct 99 Robert Half, International (contract), MS Access Programmer
Developed Mentally Disordered Offenders (MDO) application for CA Board of Prison Terms to track and report on condition and status of patients leaving the CA prison system as well as whether such patients should be put in long term psychiatric facilities.
Jan 99 - May 99 Adecco (contract), Visual Basic Programmer
Developed custom workflow routing application for Healthy Families of CA that handled routing each applicant's packet to the next processing stage as each prior stage was completed. It handled exception conditions that re-routed packets back to prior stages when insufficient data was presented.
Aug 98 - Nov 98 Robert Half, International (contract), VB6/SQL Server Programmer
Developed custom Visual Basic application to handle dental insurance customer registration and billing. This involved developing specifications and requirements, task analysis, database design and development, writing of custom stored procedures and triggers as well as developing custom routines, forms and reports for the application.
Jan 98 - Jul 98 Robert Half, International (contract), Paradox Accounting Tech
Handled all aspects of transshipment warehouse receiving and shipping data entry and reporting for Ryder Logistics. This included generating pick slips, invoices, and daily traffic volume reporting.
Nov 96 - May 97 Retail Technologies, Delphi Programmer
Developed retail store and EDI applications in Delphi 2 and Delphi 3 for use by retail store customers. This included customer feature request analysis and task analysis as well as development of application specifications and requirements.
May 95 - Apr 96 Prima Publishing, MS Access and Delphi Programmer
Developed Royalty Accounting System for Prima Publishing. Created initial design form layouts, developed database schema, formulated requirements and specifications, performed task analysis and created final application.
Feb 95 - Mar 95 Professional Solutions Inc. (contract), MS Access Programmer
Designed and developed Tank Car Tracker application, Hazmat Training Scheduler application for Procter & Gamble's Sacramento location.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
Sep 83 - Jun 88 Missoula Vo-Tech Center, Missoula, MT
Associate of Arts, Computer Science
Specialized in development of Accounting Systems for small businesses. Studied the languages of C++, Basic, COBOL, RPG and Pascal.

PUBLICATIONS
Feb 99 Learn Graphics File Programming with Delphi 3
    Derek A Benner
    WordWare Publishing

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