My name is Nicholas C. DeMello, call me Nick. I'm an artist, a marketing consultant, a Ph.D. chemist, author, magazine editor, business owner, painter, programmer, surf bum and professor of chemistry. Well... those are things I do. I suppose, who we are is never that simple a question to answer. :-)
A Californian, born in Silicon Valley, I have lived all over the state (Tahoe, L.A., San Diego, and San Francisco). I live south of San Francisco now, along the the peninsula. I am the CEO and President of CORVAD Inc, a business development company located in the San Francisco bay area. I direct the management of MacWizards (a manufacturing company that produces unique products for the Apple Macintosh computer system) and I manage ChemGraphics (a production company that uses proprietery software to create accurate and compelling digital illustrations for use in advertising, education, presentation, and publishing). I am a member of the chemistry faculty at Cañada College and my current consulting projects include the development of businesses in the manufacturing, publication, and software development industries.
In my free time I create ray-traced molecular art to illustrate
chemical interactions (these images 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, a three page feature in 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 internet technologies.
One of these days though, I want to try this
"sleeping" thing I hear so much about... :-)