Fulton, Curtis Lee-- Technologist

Summary of Qualifications

Server technology

• Object-oriented Perl, mod_perl (10 years)
• Python (3 years)
• Java (4 years)
• Apache web server with mod_rewrite and mod_proxy (10 years)
• Django MVC framework (2 years)
• Java servlet containers (3 years)
• UNIX shell, tools and administration (10 years)

Client technology

• GWT (1 year)
• JavaScript (5 years)
• Actionscript (5 years)
• JQuery (3 years)

Employment History

Software Engineer

These days I spend my time writing client-side video apps in Java, using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Java-to-JavaScript cross-compiler. My team is 100% Agile, with daily scrums, two-week sprints, TDD and code reviews. Tasks include:

• Writing reusable modules that are shared with all teams throughout the company
• Researching bleeding-edge behavior of HTML5 mobile devices
• Engineering and implementing APIs for our customers
• Engineering a specialized client-side framework that uses GIN/Guice for dependency injection. The framework inforces inversion-of-control, which gives API users a great deal of customization
• Using Maven shade plugin and GWT to reuse thousands of lines of server code on the client. Gave a talk at OSCON about this technique in July 2011

Technologist

At Western Communications (publisher of five newspapers based in Bend, Oregon), I built ingest, publishing and identity systems, such as:

• Editorial and classifieds XML ingest processes that transform and filter XML (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 identity middleware with OAuth, Paypal and proprietary CRM integration (Java, mod_perl, JSON, REST)
• Classifieds customer 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