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Hi! My name is Nils, welcome to my portfolio website. Within this domain you will find my

• Projects,
• Code Sample,
• Resume,
• Contact information,
• Current job description, and
• What I am looking for in a job.

To explore my other domains open the Table of Contents at the top of the page.

Bio

Residence

I grew up in the back woods of Maine, splitting time between my parents houses. When I was 15, after a year of public high school, I got a scholarship and moved to a boarding school, Hebron Academy (also in Maine). Then I got into Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts and went to school there for 4 years where I met Cybil. In 2002 we skipped my graduation ceremony and drove out here to Los Angeles where we've been living since.

Career

Mowed more than my share of lawns growing up back east. A couple summers I worked at a Trout Farm learning, of all things, carpentry (in addition to the obligatory fish tank cleaning). Then it was on to data entry, working 12 hour night shifts through my "nocturnal freshman" phase. Worked my way through the rest of college at a little strategic marketing firm, while also working a couple "work study" gigs, including manager of the music&dance building and front desk at the rec center. My first summer in LA I had a job as an ebay specialist working for an online electronics retailer. That job thankfully ended with my finding a gig at Baxter, working for them first through a couple contract agencies, and finally as a full time employee.

Hobbies

Like many in this field I've gone through that phase where you spend more time at the computer on your days off than those at work (no pesky commute). But these days I've been striving for a better work/life balance. I've gotten back into Table Tennis, found a club with a regular class, private lessons with a coach, and have been playing in USATT sanctioned tournaments. I've avoided the time sink that is video/computer games, but lately I've been pursuing board games beyond the D&D and MtG of my youth, discovering "Euro" games, which are games that, believe it or not, women will actually play. I also design my own games. I play a pretty mean game of foosball, but not nearly as good as those guys you can watch on YouTube, and have recently started dabbling in Archery. So yeah, basically anything that's not a main-stream sport, that requires intelligence and precision dexterity, that's are my thing.