Joseph Gulla is married to Rosemarie and has three talented daughters. He continues to sustain a career working in IT and business even though he retired from IBM in 2012. Since his retirement, he has formed a NC S-Corporation named Royal Swan Enterprises, Inc. (RSE) with Rosemarie which has three businesses. Alazar Press is a children’s publishing house that is part of RSE (catalog of 11 books) as is WINGS (teaching practice using school grants) and thought-leadership writing carried on by Joseph in a contract-by-contract manner. At present, Joseph is the financial officer of RSE and general manager of Alazar Press.
Joseph is a former volunteer treasurer of Stagville, a NC Historical Site and is currently on the Advisory board for Durham Chamber Arts Society at Duke University. Joseph has a BA from La Salle College in the arts; an MBA in MIS from La Salle University; and a PhD from Nova Southeastern University in computer information systems.
Joseph has extensive teaching experience with MBA and PhD courses and many commercial courses for IBM including Operating System Concepts, JCL and Utilities, SMP/E, CICS Application Programming, NetView Network and Systems Management and other courses. He has served on two committees for PhD students who successfully defended their research.
In his spare time, Joseph practices flute and violin and composes music. In college, he had the opportunity to study flute with Judith Mendenhall who at the time was a graduate student at Curtis working with Marcel Moyse. He also worked closely with musician Harry Hewitt who composed works for Joseph to perform at recitals of the Delaware Valley Composers organization in the 1970s. The experience of working with Judith and Harry still informs Joseph’s musical life as a practitioner and composer. In the summer of 2024, Joseph studied violin with Caitlin Buzzard playing much old and new music. In 2025, Caitlin performed a prelude for violin by Joseph at a student recital in Ohio.
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