about Artemis Computing's principal...

Diane Allen, Artemis Computing's principal, has been developing web sites for about 8 years; handling almost all aspects of the process from assessing client needs to actual site production.

Diane brings a unique skill set to web work. Her background includes over 30 years of experience working with computers in various capacities ranging from end user to chief designer, to mechanic, and betwixt & between. User interfaces have always been a special interest.

Prior to the explosion of the web, while working in business and in the software development industry, Diane independently developed expertise with many of the key skills needed to successfully develop quality web sites such as program organization, user interface design, graphics manipulation, technical writing, and programming. This broad base of skills allows her a great deal of technical freedom when crafting custom sites.

Prior to concentrating almost exclusively on web site development, Diane's experience has included the following:

• design & creation of numerous custom programs for users to manage pc based database systems of various eras; based on different products such as Access, Word macros, DB Master & others - determine needs, organize, design visuals and user experience, program the functions, test, and in some cases also produce the user manual and/or train users - the purpose of the programs were to:
  • track & report on conference participant registrations and seminar attendance
  • administer silent auction event registration, bidding and item distribution
  • real estate loan servicing, administration, investor distributions & accounting
  • interface with client database on legacy system to produce custom reports
  • business automation, simple and complex document processing
• newsletter & small magazine publishing, design, layout, paste up
• network administration, responsibility for server plus personal responsibility for keeping about 30 wintel pcs running
• early pc game development - water based war games during the CGA era - adapted older design for pcs, converted/ manipulated/ enhanced graphics, programming, user manual design & creation per client specs
• early pc software engineering for MBNA courseware - progressed from adapting older design to pc to developing new packages, incl. system design, user interface & visuals, programming of the system and models for statistical and management science courseware
• independent consulting for database work, pc hardware, accounting system administration