Resume

John Fulton

49 N. Merkle Rd.
Bexley, OH 43209
(614) 565-8382

Employment History:

Lead Programmer/Analyst 2000 – current

Columbus, OH

Part of a design and development team building web access to customer and policy information for Grange’s Independent Agents
Support for Workflow Automation and Document Imaging
Technologies include: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Interdev, Visual Basic, ASP, MTS, SQL Server, DB2, COM+, MQ Series Workflow, Content Manager (Imaging)

Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science 1998 – 2009 (part-time)

Columbus, OH

Provide classroom instruction to major and non-major students in Computer Science
Teach and lead students through basic concepts of Computer Science, design, programming, testing and documentation using a variety of instructional techniques
Develop, administer and evaluate labs, quizzes, midterms and finals to meet instructional goals
Course and workshop development
Provide instruction in Java, C++, C#, assembly language, machine language, UNIX, design, testing, debugging, networking, computer architecture, and .Net

Vice President of Technology 1994 – 2000

Responsible for all software, hardware and systems integration for in-house and contract designers and developers
Product design and development
Information gathering, design, estimation, project planning and implementation for custom software development
Research, design and implementation of development tools and office environment for mobile and flexible sales and development staff
Key technologies include C, Oracle, SQL, ODBC, sockets, CGI, HTML, Visual Basic, Computer Telephony Integration, Windows, UNIX and TCP/IP

1979 – 1994

Columbus, OH

A series of progressively responsible technical, management and
research positions. Specifically:

Senior Technical Consultant 1991 – 1994

Manager of Network and Communication Systems Research 1989 – 1991

Projects included Virtual Voice Network, Intelligent T-1 multiplexor network, Desk-top videoconferencing
Reporting to Communications Director (voice and data communications)
Responsible for up to 4 analysts and project managers
Research on current and projected industry directions
Early project management for major implementations
Internal and external customer consulting and sales support
Initial management of Local Area Network implementations and support group

Lead Programmer/Analyst 1983 – 1989

Support for Interactive Voice Response, Automated Teller Machine networks, Wire Transfer, 100 Megabit/second inter-host link, inter-organizational file transfer
Responsible for up to 12 programmers and senior programmers
Work load, hire/fire and line management responsibilities
On-campus recruiting, interviewing and speaking
Team building, productivity and quality responsibilities
Technical resource for internal and external customers

Senior Programmer 1982 – 1983

DEC, HP, Tandem, Unisys and other environments
COBOL, C, various assembly and proprietary languages
Technical leadership on multiple applications across mini-computer and mainframe platforms
Project management responsibilities across organizational lines

Programmer/Analyst 1979 – 1982

Assembly and machine language development and hardware integration
Mini-computer application development, support and vendor liaison
Progressive responsibility for application support, problem solving and user communication
Low-level technical troubleshooting of data communications interfaces and problems

Programmer 1978 – 1979

Department of Physical Oceanography
Corvallis, OR

Develop, test and integrate standard set of input/output drivers for DEC PDP-11/05 to storage devices
Design, document, test and integrate software tools to allow interoperation of data gathering system with hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic tape and punched paper tape

Education:

Master of Science, Computer Science, 2003 , Franklin University, Columbus OH
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science, 1979, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR (Systems Programming concentration)
Graduate work in Communication and in Industrial & Systems Engineering at The Ohio State University
Classes, workshops and seminars: Visual C++, CICS, DB2, Network Planning, Local Area Networks, Unix, C, Memory Cards, ISDN, Project Leadership, Exceptional Management Practices and many other technical and management topics

Publications and Patents:

DARPA Grand Challenge – a pioneering event for autonomous robotic ground vehicles. Fulton, J., & Pransky, J. (2004). Industrial Robot: An International Journal, 31, 414-422. Abstract
A Human Factors Approach to Non-Human Computer Interaction, or Why My Parrot Needs a Keyboard of His Own. A student paper presented at the 2003 Midwest Region of the Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Oct. 2003. Denison College, Granville, OH.
Communications network interface for user friendly interactive access to online services. U.S. Patent number 6,182,052 granted January 30, 2001. Based on work done in 1974 for Huntington Banks with co-inventors Marianne Shepard and Thomas Shafer.

Past Professional Interests and Positions:

Chair, Financial Services Working Group, North American ISDN Users Forum, sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
Co-investigator, Study on the use of an Advanced Communications Technology Satellite (ACTS) to provide disaster recovery communications, a joint project with Huntington Banks, NASA and Ohio University (ACTS was launched by the shuttle Discovery September, 1993 as a part of STS-51)
Member, ANSI ANS X.12 working group on bill rendering for retail payments (X12/WG3/SG4)
Associate, Center for Advanced Study in Telecommunications (CAST), Ohio State University. An honorary title, associates “…have expertise in some area of telecommunications or are engaged in telecommunications research.”
Member, Advisory Board, McClure School of Communications Systems Management, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio
Member of the Core Technical Staff, 2004 DARAP Grand Challenge. As a volunteer provided support for a variety of hardware and software at the Challenge Operation Center in Primm, NV