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Fulton named
Operations Project Manager at Allatoona Lake
By Pamela A. Keene
 Allatoona
Lake has a new Operations Project Manager for the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers. Jerry Fulton joined the project late last month from the
Mobile District, where he had worked since 2006.
For Fulton, working with the Corps is a second
career. He served in the U.S. Navy for five years on active duty and
had worked in the business world and with his own company before
going to Missouri State University where he graduated in 1999 with a
bachelor of science degree in wildlife conservation. While in
college, he worked at Stockton Lake, Mo., with the Corps as a Park
Ranger.
“I knew I wanted to work in a different environment
and I have always enjoyed the outdoors, which is why I chose the
major I did,” he said. “I was fortunate enough to be selected as a
co-op ranger with the Corps while I was still in college. Then I
received the outstanding scholar recognition which brought me to
Lake Lanier.”
He spent six years at Lanier as a Park Ranger from
2000 to 2006 before going to Mobile as Park Manager for the
operations division at the district office. In 2008 he was selected
as Project Coordinator for the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee and
Flint River Basin.
Fulton returned to Lanier in September 2009 to serve
as Interim Assistant Operations Manager, working with Lanier
Operations Project Manager Tim Rainey, who came to Lanier from
Allatoona.
“I’ve learned a lot from my time in the field with
the Corps in a very short time,” he said. “And I’ve been very lucky
to be in the positions I have.”
Fulton and his wife Amy have three children: Hope,
14; Connor, 12; and Hailey, 9.
One of his near-term goals is to become acquainted
with stakeholders and members of the community at Allatoona Lake.
“This lake is very important to the area and the Southeast,” he
said. “It is my privilege to serve here and get to know all the
people who are affected by Allatoona Lake and the Corps of
Engineers.”
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