J. Franklin Campbell
118 E. Oak Street
Mason, MI 48854-1616
home phone: (517) 676-1422
email: franklin@voyager.net
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| My Objective | |
To work in a PC environment either as an analyst/programmer or in a support role; or to design and write code for Internet web pages; or to work with PC's and micro-processors in an engineering/manufacturing environment. |
| Summary of Work Experience | |
I have worked on a large variety of very different projects using a wide range of tools and have a history of adapting to new situations and novel work requirements. My early experience was primarily in programming (design, code, test and document), mostly in an engineering or manufacturing environment using FORTRAN and various assembler languages. In recent years I have expanded my writing and editing skills and I’ve written a regular (award-winning) chess column for a national chess magazine for nine years. I have worked successfully in team environments. I have worked in a PC environment using products such as Micro Focus Workbench (assembler and COBOL animators), Word for Windows, Word Basic (Word macros), Visual Basic, Microsoft Access, Windows and Unix. I have good analytical skills and a logical, systematic approach to problem solving. I recently did some programming for a small software company updating COBOL programs to handle the year 2000 and beyond using PC and UNIX systems. I studied C++ programming at Lansing Community College. I am currently designing and coding a correspondence chess web site using HTML. I took off time from work during recent years to raise a family. I am now anxious to resume a full-time computer programming career. |
| https://www.angelfire.com/mi/JFranklinCampbell/ | |
This is the correspondence chess Internet web site I am currently designing and coding. Though this is a work in progress, it illustrates my writing, editing and HTML skills. This site contains an archive of my APCT columns (see below) and new articles I've recently written specifically for this web site. Take a look.
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| American Postal Chess Tournaments, Western Springs, IL - 1989 to Present | |
Currently write the award-winning regular column “The Campbell Report” for the magazine APCT News Bulletin plus occasional articles for other publications, such as The Chess Journalist, Chess Mail and floridaChess. Correspond with members to gather news and opinion for my column. Make extensive use of the Internet and email to gather information and transmit my column. Have articles on Internet sites in Germany, Ireland and my own site listed above. |
| Ceridian Employer Services, Atlanta, Georgia - 1992 to 1993 | |
Contract Programmer. Initially worked through a temp agency doing project documentation and later through SBV Technologies, Atlanta, GA 30329. Worked on the Payroll Re-architecture project to convert old assembly language payroll package to the IEF Case tool. Worked on decomposition of assembler programs to determine functionality, wrote data conversion programs in 370/BAL and COBOL, participated in a self-directed team, had some contact with the IEF tool (entered entities/attributes, worked on External Action Blocks, did some construction and testing using the IEF test facility), used PC's extensively (CC:Mail, NSS3 Scheduler, Microsoft WORD, Micro Focus Workbench, Windows and OS2), wrote complex MS-WORD macros to generate code for IEF EAB's from EAB stubs, worked with Micro Focus Workbench (both COBOL and Assembler versions). |
| Atlantic Data Systems, 1 Batterymarch Park, Quincy, MA 02169 - 1990 to 1991 | |
Contract Programmer. Worked on IBM/370 BAL programs for credit card software. Worked for ADS until they closed their office in Atlanta. |
| WSI Corporation, Bedford, Massachusetts - 1984 to 1985 | |
Senior Programmer. Designed/coded/tested Assembler Language programs and utilities for the VAX and BASIC programs for the PC computers. Programs created or accessed various weather information or customer data bases. Some programs created graphic displays of weather maps. Interfaced between users and programmers. |
| Foxboro Company, Foxboro, Massachusetts - 1977 to 1984 | |
Senior Software Engineer. Designed/coded/tested Assembler Language programs for micro computers embedded in Process Control Equipment. Wrote specifications for software and interfaced between programmers and engineers. Used emulators, simulators and logic analyzers to test programs. Main projects: several database configurators designed for ease of use by engineers, display software for custom display hardware, CRT and Keyboard drivers. Used VAX to edit documents, cross-assemble and simulate programs. |
| Safeway Stores, Inc., Oakland, California - 1974 to 1977 | |
Senior Systems Design Programmer. Worked in a small group designing and coding a real-time multi-programming operating system for the PDP-11. Designed and coded sections of a materials handling system automating a milk plant, including interfaces to custom hardware, various drivers, pollers for real time signals, simple diagnostic programs, status displays for operators and error recovery routines. |
| Singer Business Machines, San Leandro, California - 1972 to 1974 | |
Software Engineer. Designed/coded/tested Assembler Language programs for the Singer System-11 computer, including PROM Loader, peripheral diagnostics and various drivers. Worked on project to simulate previous Singer computer on the System-11. |
| Singer General Precision, Wayne, New Jersey - 1970 to 1971 | |
Engineer. Wrote a simulator in FORTAN and IBM 360/BAL to simulate the SKC-2000 mini-computer on an IBM/360. Wrote math subroutine package for high-performance aircraft computer. Designed and coded an Interpreter for a test machine language (ATLAS) on a PDP-11 to test electronic circuit boards. |
| Yale Observatory, New Haven Connecticut - 1968 to 1970 | |
Graduate student in Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics. |
| IBM Corporation, Kansas City, Missouri - 1965 to 1968 | |
Systems Engineer. IBM/1130 specialist at the IBM Kansas City Data Center. Wrote a Tracing package in FORTRAN and 360/BAL for IBM/360 DOS FORTRAN. Had experience with various IBM computers and unit record equipment. Also worked in the Tulsa, Oklahoma IBM Branch Office providing technical assistance to Petrolium research companies and assisting IBM salesmen with sales calls. |
| Educational Background |
Undergraduate work: Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Oklahoma State University (B.S. in Mathematics from Oklahoma State).
Graduate Work in Mathematics at Oklahoma State University and Tulsa University.
Graduate Work in Astronomy and Celestial Mechanics at Yale University.
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