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John Fulton
49 N. Merkle Rd.
Bexley, OH 43209

(614) 445-3157 (weekdays)
(614) 239-1217 (other times)
(614) 565-8382 (mobile)
john@johnfulton.org

Employment History

Education
Publications & Patents
Past Professional Interests and Positions

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Employment History:

Adjunct Faculty in Computer Science
1998 - 2009 (part-time)
Franklin University Columbus, OH

  • Provide 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 C++, UNIX, design, testing, debugging, networking, computer architecture, C#, .Net, Human-Computer Interaction, Java, and Visual Basic
  • Classroom and on-line instructor

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Lead Programmer/Analyst  2000 - current
Grange Insurance Companies Columbus, OH

  • Part of a design and development team building web access to customer and policy information for Grange's Independent Agents
  • Integration and support for imaging and workflow technologies in back-office processing and operations.
  • Technologies include: Windows NT, Windows 2000, Interdev, Visual Basic, ASP, MTS, SQL Server, DB2, COM+, MQ Series Workflow, Content Manager (Imaging) , .Net

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Vice President of Technology 1994 - 2000 NewFound Technologies, Inc. Columbus, OH

  • 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

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Huntington Banks
1979 - 1994
Columbus, OH
A series of progressively responsible technical, management and research positions. Specifically:

Senior Technical Consultant 1991 - 1994

  • Primary project responsibility: Huntington/AT&T Smart Phone project
  • Responsible for team of 3 technical consultants
  • Product development and design
  • Technical and business planning for a new lineof business
  • Vendor support and management
  • Human interface design
  • Technical interpretation, education and evaluationfor marketing group
  • Sales call planning, preparation and evaluation

Manager of Network and Communication
Systems Research 1989 - 1991

  • Projects included Virtual Voice Network, IntelligentT-1 multiplexor network, Desk-top videoconferencing
  • Reporting to Communications Director (voiceand data communications)
  • Responsible for up to 4 analysts and projectmanagers
  • 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

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Lead Programmer/Analyst   

1983 - 1989

  • Support for Interactive Voice Response, Automated Teller Machine networks, Wire Transfer, 100 Megabit/secondinter-host link, inter-organizational file transfer
  • Responsible for up to 12 programmers and seniorprogrammers
  • 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 organizationallines

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

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Programmer 1978 - 1979

Oregon State University

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 softwaretools to allow interoperation of data gathering system with hard disk, floppy disk, magnetic tape and punched paper tape

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Education:

Master of Science, Computer Science, 2003, Franklin University, Columbus OH (Capstone Project in Human-Computer Interaction)

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

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Publications and Patents:

  • Fulton, J., & Pransky, J. (2004).DARPA Grand Challenge - a pioneering event for autonomous robotic ground vehicles. IndustrialRobot: 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. Astudent 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.

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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 DARPA Grand Challenge. As a volunteer provided support for a variety of hardware and software at the Challenge Operation Center in Primm, NV

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