Fulton, Curtis Lee-- Software developer

Online portfolio: http://fultron.net/portfolio.shtml

Objective

To work with a team that is cool with breaking an egg or two (but not the back button!) so we can whip up a delicious interactive omelet. Serve it hot, on time and make it look easy.

Summary of Qualifications

Server technology

• Object-oriented Perl, mod_perl (10 years)
• Python (3 years)
• Java (3 years)
• DOM, Expat and XPath (5 years)
• Apache web server with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy (10 years)
• Django MVC framework (2 years)
• Apache Tomcat/Java servlets (3 years)
• UNIX BASH shell (10 years)
• Linux administration (10 years)

Client technology

• CSS (8 years)
• XHTML (8 years)
• JavaScript (5 years)
• Actionscript (5 years)
• Adobe AIR (2 years)
• JQuery (3 years)
• ExtJS UI toolkit (2 years)

Tools

• VIM (My IDE ;)
• SVN (My version control tool; I also use it to migrate files up dev, test and production branches)
• GCC and GNU build tools (I use GNU make to run my JavaScript through GCC CPP for macro expansion)
• Firebug (My JavaScript debug tool and half of my JavaScript development environment)
• Photoshop (What I use to make comps and edit graphics)
• Illustrator (What I use to make comps and edit vector images for Flash)
• Adobe FLEX compiler (My preferred method for authoring Flash applications)

Employment History

Software Developer

Currently I work for The Bulletin, the daily newspaper in Bend, Oregon. Recent and ongoing development projects include:

• Many editorial and classifieds XML feeds that are transformed and filtered (Unix Shell, Perl, Expat parser, XSLT, XPath).
• Regional movie guide and schedule pages (Apache Tomcat, Java, Xalan XSLT).
• In-house feed monitoring and reporting service (Apache Tomcat, Java, Velocity, Hibernate)
• Subscriber authentication middleware (mod_perl, JSON, RPC)
• Classifieds ordering system with a pure JavaScript client that communicates with a REST interface. (Python, Django, ExtJS, JSON).
• Classifieds display service with a pure JavaScript client that communicates with a REST interface. (Google Web Apps, Python, Django, ExtJS, JSON).

Software Developer

Tasks included: object-oriented, test-driven Perl development of in-house web publishing system.

Investigative Reporter

Tasks included: Investigative reporting for The Online Reporter, high-end newsletter geared toward management and investors. My beat was the digital media industry and I followed companies like AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, EMI, Tivo, Napster, Real Networks and Microsoft.

Systems Administrator and Programmer

Tasks included: Design and implementation of an in- house web-based accounting system using object-oriented Perl and PostgreSQL. Design and implementation of a system to automate a web server log report using UNIX shell and Perl.

Systems Administrator

Tasks included: Configuring and administrating Linux servers for Sendmail, Apache and Samba. Many hours of shell script and Perl programming.

Education

University of Oregon
School of Journalism and Communication
Eugene, OR 97403