Lewis E. Pulsipher, Ph.D.

2441 Ramey Drive

Linden, NC 28356

Career summary: I have an unusual combination of very extensive teaching experience on the one hand, and computer industry and game design experience on the other. I have taught more than 17,000 classroom hours, from Continuing Ed through two- and four-year college to over 2,000 classroom hours of graduate school. I devised/designed the entire computer curriculum for several years for FTCC Ft Bragg, and design my graduate courses at Webster University. I worked more than nine years as a government “computer specialist-programmer/analyst” at a major Medical Center, where I established, deployed, and supported the local area network, Internet and Intranet, hired and managed several employees, and initially worked as a programmer and systems analyst. I teach as an expert practitioner, but am able to teach according to needs and objectives appropriate to the students’ level.

Professional Experience:

Simulation and Game Development Instructor, Wake Technical Community College (Raleigh NC), August 2007-December 2007 (temporary contract)

I taught one “lecture”/writing section (48 students) of SGD (Simulation and Game Development) 111, Introduction to Game Industry, and four sections (ca. 90 students) of SGD112, Game Design I. I founded a game club and promoted interaction amongst students. As an expert practitioner of game design I expanded the classes I taught and suggested changes for the curriculum as a whole.

Networking, Web Development, Game Design Instructor, Central Carolina Community College (Sanford NC), January 2000-June 2007

As a full-time (10 month contract) instructor I taught a variety of network and Web-related classes for those pursuing a two-year degree in CIT. We offered non-proprietary classes plus many classes in Windows, Cisco routing, and Linux/UNIX. I have taught 17 different courses in the past two years owing to my broad background. I organized and provisioned the department computer lab (separate from the school’s network) on main campus. I also installed/maintained/repaired the Oracle server and (two) Web servers for the department, distributed MSDN software, planned and ran the all-student meeting at the beginning of each year, maintained and posted to the department listserv, created podcasts for the department, etc. I received the highest evaluation in the department from my supervisors.

We were the first community college in the state to offer game classes (Fall, ‘04). I taught the game design course. When we consolidated the department we dropped the game certificate because, it appeared, students were much more interested in a full two-year degree, which we could not support.

Adjunct Faculty, Webster University Graduate School (Pope AFB), March 1988-present

I teach a variety of evening graduate courses, mostly for the Computers and Information Resource Management masters degree, most recently teaching "Telecommunications and Networking", “Systems Analysis”, and “Project Management”. I have taught 6 or 7 (depends on how you count them) different courses, about 65 sessions altogether.

Based on a one paragraph course description set by the university, I devise the entire course and select the textbook(s).

Full-time instructor, Fayetteville Technical Institute/Community College Ft Bragg, November 1985-August 1990

I taught eight hours of Continuing Ed classes each weekday, plus some evenings. The civil service, military, and military dependent population provided most of the students, sometimes via contract.

I transformed a small, backward (Apple II oriented) computer education program into a large forward-looking enterprise of several full-time instructors and assistants at any one time. I established the curriculum, selected the software to be taught, designed the classes/syllabus, and wrote printed material (students cannot be required to purchase books) and special computer programs for the entire IBM-oriented curriculum at FTCC Ft. Bragg including more than a dozen courses. I recruited and trained all other assistants and instructors.

I established evening classes oriented toward practical program development (primarily dBase and advanced DOS batch files, also Pascal).

Computer Programmer/Analyst/Specialist, Information Management Division (IMD), Womack Army Medical Center (WAMC), Ft Bragg, NC August 1990-January 2000

Womack is the largest army hospital, in terms of patients served each year, and had over 2.500 employees when I left. Over the years I worked initially as a programmer/analyst, later as project manager and supervisor of the PC & Networking Support Branch, and later as Webmaster, systems analyst, and Y2K project manager.

I came into a situation in which IMD wrote custom programs giving users no flexibility and making them entirely dependent on IMD programmers. While I maintained and extended the existing programs as necessary (mostly in uncommented Clipper), I achieved recognition of the principle that custom line-by-line programming did not make good business sense, given the penchant of higher echelons to provide “stovepipe” systems, and that users should take advantage of spreadsheets, MS Access, and other “user-programmable” applications.

I also found that communication between IMD and computer users was almost non-existent, nor did knowledgeable users have any respect for the expertise of IMD employees. I established, wrote, and edited an extensive monthly newsletter for users that immensely improved communication by making users partners in the effort to use automation to improve conduct of the hospital’s business.

Womack used a 3+Share thin ethernet network that was available to less than 30 employees, and only usable for e-mail (it crashed when transferring or even erasing groups of files). I established small Lantastic networks at first, then deployed Novell Netware with ccMail to provide a true production network. I hired the people who helped me install cable, deploy network cards, set up servers, administer Netware and ccMail, etc. Within three years of starting, more than 600 people used the network regularly, and others were being added.

I was also system admin for several Unix systems, including the WAN e-mail system for the medical center.

Although there were 250 PCs at Womack when I arrived, there was virtually no PC support in the UNIX-oriented IMD. As my job evolved I set up a PC support organization with Help Line, hired and supervised the employees, and managed the PC and Networking Support Branch that I established. I spent more than three million dollars, allocated and deployed more than 700 PCs, and converted Womack from DOS to Windows orientation. If someone needed a PC-related item or needed a task accomplished with PCs, they came to me first.

Coming into a situation where there was no user training, I established and co-taught internal classes in Windows 3.1 and Windows applications, and later in Windows NT (ultimately contracted to Fayetteville Tech).

I established Internet links at WAMC and, on my own initiative, set up both an Internet site and an intranet server and site. I trained sub-Webmasters for the Intranet and maintained (and registered) the smaller Internet site.

In conjunction with my position as Y2K preparation representative I took a major part in security activities including creation of a continuity of operations (coop) plan for the Medical Center.

Professional Awards:

Teacher of the Year, Fayetteville Tech Ft Bragg, 1985.

$1,000 cash award, Womack Army Medical Center, 1993.

Credited professional peer reviewer for the following college textbooks published by McGraw-Hill:

Presentations:

• “Getting Started in the Game Industry", Origins ‘08 (Columbus Ohio) June 28, 08

• "How to: the Process of Designing a Game", Origins ‘08 (Columbus Ohio), June 28, 08

• “The Iterative and Incremental Nature of Game Design”, NCCIA Conference (Stanly Community College), 21 Feb 08

• “Getting Started in Game Design" twice at Origins (Columbus Ohio) early July '07

• "The Process of Designing a Game" Origins ‘07 (Columbus Ohio) early July '07

• “Student Retention”, NCCIA Conference ‘07, Carteret Community College

• "How to Design Games", 32nd annual Origins Convention, July ‘06

• “How to Design Games”, NCCIA (North Carolina Computer Instructors’ Association), March ‘06

• “We Collectively 'Design' an Educational Game” NCCIA Conference, March '06

• “Game Design and CCCC Game Certificate, Our Experience Thus Far” NCCIA March ‘05

• "Teaching Game Design in Community Colleges," Digital Game Expo (Raleigh NC), Summer ‘05

• “CCCC Game Certificate, Our Experience Thus Far”, NCCIA Conference, March ‘05

• “Turning One Computer into Many”, NCCIA Conference, March ‘04,

Slides for all available at http://www.pulsipher.net/teaching1.htm

Publications:

Six adult strategic board games (most well-known is Britannia, published on two continents) and one rules booklet. Approximately 150 articles about gaming in a variety of professional magazines in United States and Britain. Three articles about computing (and several about other subjects), Fayetteville Observer-Times newspaper. Roughly a dozen articles about computing for Ft Bragg Paraglide newspaper.

Education:

Ph.D. 1981 Duke University, Durham, NC. Subject areas: military and diplomatic history; political science.

M.A. 1976 Duke University, James B. Duke Fellow.

I believe I have the equivalent, by virtue of teaching in the curriculum for 19+ years, of more than 18 graduate hours in Computer and Information Resources Management (the name changes over the years), Webster University, Pope AFB, NC campus.

ITEC 693, “Information Assurance”, graduate class at Radford U., May 2005, 2 credit hours.

A.B. 1973, summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Albion College, Albion, Michigan.

Additional Training:

Intergraph Corporation UNIX Administrator course (five days), 1994.

The following Microsoft Certified System Engineer Courses. 1998.

Supporting MS Windows NT 4.0-- Core Technologies (5 days)

Microsoft Exchange 5.5 Concepts and Administrations (3 days)

Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 Core Technologies (5 days)

Microsoft Access Development (5 days)

The following Certified Netware Engineer courses (total of 18 days of classes):

Networking Technologies

TCP/IP Transport

Netware Dial-In/Dial-Out Connectivity

Netware Service and Support

Netware 3.11 System Manager

Netware 3.11 Advanced System Manager

Network General “Sniffer University “ courses (total five days), 1996:

Ethernet and Token Ring Network Analysis and Troubleshooting

Troubleshooting with the Expert Sniffer Network Analyzer

Internet/Web Developer Certification course (five days), 1997:

Perl and Javascript

Web databases

Java

Cisco Networking Academy instructors’ courses:

Semester 1 and Semester 2, June 2000 (two weeks)

Semesters 3 and Semester 4, May 2001 (two weeks)

Microsoft Official Curriculum Updating Support Skills from Windows NT 4.0 to Windows Server 2003, June 2003 at Microsoft-sponsored Carolina Working Connections conference, Charlotte.

Certifications:

Network+ 2001

A+ 2002

iNet+ 2002

Security+ and MCP Windows 2000 Server, 2004.

As certifications do not reflect actual ability–among other things, they are memory rather than performance based, and it is too easy to cheat--I took them to encourage my students to improve their resumes.

Software Expertise:

Too numerous to exhaustively list, going back to CP/M, dBase II, WordStar, Perfect Calc, Lotus 123 version 1, and UNIX; more recently latest WordPerfect, Office, FrontPage, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Coreldraw, Cold Fusion, Visio, Info Select, Windows XP and Server 2003, IIS, Cisco IOS, Linux.

US Citizen, very good health. Hobbies computers, team sports, history, games.

References available on request. List of courses taught available on request.