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Meet the Staff: Cody McNulty

December 1, 2017

Meet the Staff: Cody McNulty

Cody McNulty

Note: Meet the Staff highlights staff members in the College of Arts and Sciences Technology Services. We welcome your thoughts on it.


What are your hobbies?

I like to work with my hands, and that usually manifests in me working on my car. Right now I'm working on rewiring up new headlight assemblies, and my last project was re-working up my suspension. I also like to rock climb, and I run quite a bit.

What's something about you that other people find interesting or surprising?

I'm a volunteer at OSU's Medical Center, and I'm a licensed EMT-Basic (Emergency Medical Technician).

What has surprised you about working at ASCTech?

I love the end-user focus. We may get really busy but the attitude is always "What can we do to help this person?"

Ever since he was a political science and French major at Ohio State, Cody McNulty has worked at ASCTech. He remembers the time well: “May 16, 2011, was my start date,“ he says. McNulty, now a computer systems manager for ASCtech, had a history with computers before that. 

“I was always the computer guy of the family. When I was eight or nine, I was installing stuff on the family computer, and in high school, I got a job at a local computer shop repairing computers,” he says.

These days, McNulty supports the mission of the college, largely by supporting the computer needs of the Department of Mathematics, whether that is fixing computers, planning projects, or troubleshooting the digital displays he supports. McNulty is also looking forward to "more ambitious projects like the flipped and flexible course with the Math Stats Learning Center (MSLC), which features a course lecture that's simultaneously broadcast across the web. Students all over can acess it, from high schools or other colleges. They can choose how they want to access a course. It's a great expansion of the audience."

McNulty doesn't see his job as primarily technology-based: "I don't see the issues we deal with daily as just technology problems. I like to think of it as 'These are people educating the next generation, the next leaders of America, the next leaders of our society. How do we help them do that best?' If they run into an issue, I want to make sure it is resolved not only to their satisfaction but also in a way that allow them to educate better."

If you need someone to help with your technology, request help from ASCTech and maybe you'll work with Cody McNulty.