San Mateo County Community College District
Bryan Besnyi has a diverse work experience spanning several years. Bryan started their career as a Theatre Production Technician at College of San Mateo in 2009 and worked there until 2016. Bryan then joined Skyline College as an Office Assistant II in June 2012 and later became an Administrative Assistant in August 2013. After working at Skyline College for several years, Bryan joined the San Mateo County Community College District in April 2018 as a Web Accessibility Programmer. In this role, they remediated web content to meet accessibility criteria, developed and maintained accessible web applications, managed website accessibility through testing tools, and evaluated vendor software compliance. Bryan later became a Programmer Analyst in November 2019 and eventually a Senior Programmer I in July 2022.
Bryan Besnyi earned their Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Computer Science - Software Engineering from Notre Dame de Namur University, where they studied from 2013 to 2018. Prior to that, they obtained an AA degree in Liberal Arts from College of San Mateo, attending from 2009 to 2011. Additionally, Besnyi has obtained various certifications from Lynda.com, such as "Accessibility for Web Design," "Advanced Accessible PDFs," "Installing Apache, MySQL, and PHP," "Learning Chrome Web Developer Tools," "Learning Composer, the PHP Dependency Manager," "PHP Essential Training," "PHP: Object-Oriented Programming," "Web Development Foundations: Web Technologies," "Learning R," "Learning Python Generators," "Learning Python and Django," "Learning Python with PyCharm," "Learning the Python 3 Standard Library," "Unix for Mac OS X Users," "Learning Secure Sockets Layer," "Learning Spring with Spring Boot," "Learning Git and GitHub," "Learning Raspberry Pi," "SQL Essential Training," and "UX Foundations: Accessibility."
San Mateo County Community College District
The District was established in 1922, and operates three Colleges: Cañada College, College of San Mateo and Skyline College. Located between San Francisco and Silicon Valley, the District Colleges provide community college educational services to residents of the County of San Mateo, California. Combined, the three Colleges of the District serve approximately 45,000 students annually and offer the first two years of college-level instruction in a wide variety of transfer programs as well as more than 90 vocational-technical programs. Students can earn either Associate in Arts or Science degrees or receive Certificates of Proficiency in their chosen fields. Distance education courses are available at all three Colleges as well as courses and programs serving concurrently enrolled students. Noncredit, short courses are offered for a fee through the Community Education Program.