Projects, programs, and work Kevin Atkins has done

Foxpro Programming

• Wrote interface to Zip-plus-4 postal correction system
• Wrote programs to translate, manipulate, correct, elimate duplicates from, Zip-plus-4 correct, and return data to mainframe databases.
• Wrote programs to translate addresses into mappable form for MapInfo, and then manipulate data within boundaries drawn or bought for MapInfo maps.
• Wrote programs for survey data entry, data correction, coding, and statistical analysis.
• Wrote programs for textual-analysis of free-form survey responses -- fuzzy word and phrase counts.
• Maintained and altered programs created by other people in dBase, Clipper, Foxbase, Foxpro, Paradox, rBase.
• Created program to sort Tibetan text "alphabetically".

GIS and mapping

• Translated US Census TIGER line files into MapInfo format.
• Created programs with MapInfo and Foxpro to target hospital literature to recently arrived residents.
• Use MapInfo geographic queries to select Foxpro data which fell with drawn or purchased map boundaries.

Typesetting

• Typeset four academic books, in Religious Studies, and in Law.
• Typeset and edited two academic journals.
• Created fonts for transliterated Indian and Tibetan languages.

Editing

• Edited the Journal of the International Association of Buddhist Studies.
• Edited manuscripts for IU faculty.

Computer Consulting and Repair

• I have extensive experience in hardware and software consulting, installation, maintenance, repair, and administration, including Novell LAN installation, maintenance, and administration.

Computing Education

• I have created training materials, given classes, trained others to give computing classes, and tutored individuals.

Database manipulation

• Too many projects to mention converting data from one form, source, system to another. Mainframe to and from PC, Mac, spreadsheet, report format, optically scanned data, tapes, census data, maps, telephone data...

Telephony

• Created several information hotlines - City of Bloomington Parks and Recreation and the Monroe County Solid Waste Management District's Recycling Information Hotline