Fulton, Curtis Lee-- Multimedia Specialist

Summary of Qualifications

Skills

• Web programmer
• Investigative reporter
• Audio and video production

Tools

• Photoshop
• Illustrator
• Quark
• Flash MX
• Audacity
• VI text editor

Languages

• CSS
• XHTML
• Javascript
• Actionscript
• C and C++
• Perl
• UNIX shell
• SQL

Server technology

• Linux administration
• MySQL and PostgreSQL
• Apache web server with mod_perl, mod_rewrite and mod_proxy

Employment History

Webmaster

Currently I work for The Bulletin, a daily in Bend, Oregon. Here's what I've been up to:

• Designed and coded The Bulletin's new web site (bendbulletin.com). The site's layout is based entirely on CSS.
• Teamed with the editors to develop a workflow for publishing editorial content to the web.
• Wrote software that automatically preps editorial content for the web. The software, which was written in Perl, converts Quark pages into the NAA's NITF XML format, converts and resizes TIFF and EPS images into web-ready JPGs and then uploads the content to our CMS, where our web producers make final adjusts via a web interface.
• Writing and producing interactive Flash presentations.

Investigative Reporter

Tasks included: Investigative reporting for The Online Reporter, an expensive newsletter geared for management and investors. My beat was the digital media industry, so I followed companies like AOL Time Warner, Bertelsmann, Vivendi, EMI, Tivo, Napster, Real Networks and Microsoft. Although competition in the technology reporting business is fierce, I often would wind up leading the news cycle on a story, sometimes even breaking a story days or weeks before the New York Times or the Wall Street Journal ended up reporting it.

Technical Writer

Tasks included: Wrote a book about Linux video post-production. Unfortunately, when I finished writing, the author of the software I was writing about (Broadcast 2000) started version 2.0 (Cinelerra) and said he would no longer support the old version. No Starch had no choice but to kill our contract. Cinelerra is now finished, and No Starch and I are talking about a new book.

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 server for Sendmail, Apache, Samba and Netatalk. Setting up and maintaining Majordomo mailing lists. Composing documentation. Configuring public X terminals. Set up PPP dial in server. Set up fax server. Many hours of shell script and Perl programming. Soft raid 5 set up.

Education

University of Oregon
School of Journalism and Communication
Eugene, OR 97403
Bachelor's of Science in Journalism.