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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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