ChamberU: Getting Twitter and Facebook to Work for You
09.16.09 @ 4:48 pmOn October 6th, we’re hosting a session at the Penn Stater. It’s about getting Twitter and Facebook to work for you or your business
West Arete Computing
We’re a small, nimble web development company based in State College, Pennsylvania.
Our passion is to write incredibly useful, reliable software that improves your business.
We’re focused on being the best at what we do. We use the best practices of the software development industry. This lets us write outstanding, innovative software. And it lets you control your project’s features and budget as you watch your ideas take shape.
People
Developers
Scott Woods
Scott founded West Arete Computing in 2005. He’s been programming and writing software for a long, long time. He’s interested in finding the best ways to apply everyone’s skills to the problems that our customers face daily. Main goal: making custom software development predictable and profitable for our customers, while providing one of the best work environments anywhere.
Clinton Judy
Clint began programming in the second grade, and has been refining his skills ever since. His path has taken him from a hobbyist programmer through high school, to attending Lock Haven University for Computer Science. As a professional software developer, Clint also brings considerable talent for design and typography.
Support Staff
Jeff Buechler
Jeff is our system administrator. He develops our server infrastructure, responds to problems, and generally keeps things running smoothly so we can focus on our work. Scott has worked with Jeff for over 10 years, and he’s still one of the best system administrators that we know.
Sally Woods
Sally handles a lot of the day-to-day work of running the business, which helps the rest of us focus on our customers and writing software. She has spent several years working in Financial Administration, General Accounting, and Auditing. She has a B.S. in Business from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Projects
Commercial
Pennsylvania Insulating Glass manufactures insulated and laminated glass in house for a wide variety of customers and purposes. We develop and maintain the custom internal web application that tracks the details of each order throughout the entire manufacturing process.
Kirby Lester makes highly accurate tablet counters for pharmacies. They wanted to start selling their products online, and they had a very specific idea of what the buying experience should be like for their customers. We’re working with our partners at The Artemis Group to create a custom online store for www.kirbylester.com, including a custom payment module to interface with their existing credit card processor.
Academic
Pennsylvania Transportation Institute at Penn State tests hundreds of commercial bus models for the Federal Transit Administration. We are working with our partners at The Artemis Group to develop a custom web application that allows the PTI staff to enter and maintain the 100 or so pages of data for each bus. Companies and goverments who are considering purchasing commercial buses can then use the powerful public part of the website to find the safest, most economical models.
Living Wage Calculator combines vast data from many different sources to estimate the bare minimum that it would take to support your family in just about any location in the United States. This project was done with Dr. Amy Glasmeier at Penn State (and now at MIT) and Tracey Farrigan at the USDA. This tool is used by companies and governments to determine what a fair wage is for their employees and constituents.