My name is Nicholas C. DeMello, call me Nick. I'm an artist, a marketing expert, a Ph.D. chemist, author, magazine editor, business owner, programmer, surf bum and college professor. Well, to be precise, those are things I've done. I suppose, who we are is never that simple a question to answer. :-)
I'm a Californian, born in Silicon Valley and I've lived all over the state (Tahoe, L.A., San Diego, and San Francisco). I'm living south of San Francisco now, along the the peninsula. What do I do? I manage MacWizards, a manufacturing company that produces unique products for the Apple Macintosh computer system. I also do business and chemistry consulting and lecture Chemistry at Cañada College.
In my free time I'm still creating ray-traced molecular art to illustrate
chemical interactions (which have appeared in C & E News, Science,
the Cover of Angewandte Chemie, the cover of Accounts of Chemical
Research, the 1997 calendar of the American Chemical Society, Eyes on
Chemistry and others publications). When
no one's looking I try and find time to ski, snow-board, surf, paint,
laugh, and spend entirely too much time exploring Macintosh and the
new technologies.
One of these days though, I want to try this
"sleeping" thing I hear so much about... :-)