George Scheurer started working with computers in 1963 while an engineering major at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. In the army he was trained as a Nike-Hercules Acquisition Radar Mechanic. In 1975, while working for the Housing Allowance Project in Springfield, he was the primary contributing author of the Consumer Protection Act for Massachusetts. From 1981 to 1984 he worked as the Microcomputer Specialist for the Psychology Department at UMASS and the Clark Science Center at Smith College. In 1983 he opened a retail computer store called The Computer Farm Inc., which he owned and operated in Florence, MA for 15 years. He has also taught staff raining courses at Westover Air Force Base in computer science. After the Computer Farm closed in 1998 he continued to work with his customers as a private consultant through George B. Scheurer Consulting. He brings to Arete Computer Consulting 40 years of experience in the computer industry.
		Carol Scheurer was first introduced to programming at the Institute of Marine Science in Fairbanks, Alaska. That was in 1970 when programs and data were keypunched on cards and submitted for overnight execution on a room-sized computer system. Since then, Carol has evolved her programming skills through the CP/M, DOS, UNIX and the Windows operating systems. While her favorite language was once dBase for DOS, she now works with Access, Visual Basic, Excel, HTML, JavaScript, PHP and SQL/MySQL and accesses data locally or via the Internet. Carol’s specialty is developing menu-driven database systems for clients who have unique needs. While working as vice president of The Computer Farm, Inc. she developed a multi-user, multi-town tracking system for the collection of delinquent taxes. This systems prints time sensitive notices to the delinquents, produces reports, and sends and receives data from the RMV’s billing and non-renewal system. She has written custom systems for many diverse clients. Two examples are a chemical mixing company which required a multi-user system to calculate mixtures, print step by step instructions and control inventory, and the City of Northampton Assessors Office which needed a database of its property evaluations made accessible via the Internet.
		Taneka Mintzer started her career in computers in 1993, when she worked at The Computer Farm Inc. as the Service Room Manager. When the Computer Farm closed in 1998 she chose to pursue her interest in both computers and art, by becoming a Computer Art major at the School of Visual Arts in NYC. After finishing her degree, she returned to the Valley to help start Arete Computer Consulting. She comes to Arete offering her web design and desktop publishing expertise. She specializes in creating new looks for small businesses from logos, brochures and business cards to newsletters and custom websites. She offers tutoring in a variety of graphics programs and can update business or personal websites. See our Websites section for samples of her work.
		Josh Mintzer has been working on computer hardware since 1990. He graduated from Hartwick College in 1997 with a Bachelors Degree in Information Science. He then continued on to the School of Information at the University of Michigan where he received his Masters Degree, also in Information Science, in 1999. Before coming to Arete, he worked as a Technical Officer for J.P. Morgan Chase & Co, where he provided support on a wide range of cash management products. Before that, he worked for System Engineering Consultants (Now part of General Electric Medical Systems Information Technology) and FasTech, a software company that produces time and attendance systems. He has received his Microsoft Certified Professional for Windows 98 and XP, CompTIA A+ and CompTIA Network+ certifications. In 2003, he became a Cisco Certified Network Associate. In 2006 he became a Microsoft Certified Systems Administrator.

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