Fulton, Curtis Lee-- Software developer

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

541-610-6362
http://fultron.net
curtisf@fultron.net

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).

(October 2004 - October 2007; July 2008 - present)
The Bulletin
1777 SW Chandler Avenue
Bend, OR 97702
541-617-7858

Software Developer

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

(November 2007 - June 2008)
Xerox, Inc.
45 Glover Avenue
P.O. Box 4505
Norwalk, CT 06856-4505
1-203-968-3000

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.

(July 2001 - January 2003)
G2 Computer Intelligence
323 Glen Cove Ave.
Sea Cliff, NY 11579
516-759-7025

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.

(September 2000 - January 2001)
Via Training
1620 SW Taylor St.
Suite 200
Portland, OR 97205
503-276-1548

Systems Administrator

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

(March 1999- August 2000)
1275 University of Oregon
School of Journalism and Communication
312B Allen Hall
Eugene, OR 97401
541-346-2154

Education

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