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 (Long Beach, Tahoe, L.A., San Diego, and San Francisco) as well as spending some time in Hawaii and Pennsylvania. 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, information systems and software development industries.
In my "free" time I create ray-traced molecular art to illustrate
chemical interactions. I've created images for C & E News, the cover of 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.
I've also been spotted on Tichondrius server, playing a rogue in World of Warcraft.
One of these days though, I want to try this
"sleeping" thing I hear so much about... :-)