My initials are CAN (Chad Allan Nicholls). My mom always told me. Chad, you CAN do anything you set your mind to its in your name. Well as aggravated as I got when I was younger, I guess it did stick with me when I grew up. I have never been afraid of tackling a new project.

A little about me, I am a 32 year old IT Director, working in computers.  I grew up in the small town of Archbold, OH.  I was the little kid who asked 100 questions, if it had batteries and screws I could see, I would take it apart to see how it works. I remember bailing straw for 2 weeks when I was about 10, I made a whole $30, that same week my dad found the families missing dust buster in pieces hidden away in my room. Guess what I had to spend my first paycheck on?  I never really watched allot of TV as a kid. Most summers were spent building or taking things apart. As a teen, I think I had the largest home build stereo in town. It took up half my room.  My first computer was an Apple 2e anyone remember those? I started loving computers when I broke the apple pc installing some game. I panicked and rode my bike to the local Wyse Office Center, and talked to the computer repair guy. Here I was a 9 year old kid asking him how to fix this thing before my dad got home. He smiled and showed me how to take it apart change a jumper on the motherboard, and Walla, fixed! I was hooked! I bought a few books on programming and dinked around. Little did I know I would end up dinking around on a keyboard for the rest of my life.

By day I am a computer geek, and by night these are my "hobbies".  The other employees where I work, and most people I work with have no idea of my secret life as a builder, inventor or what ever you want to call it. Most just look at me a manager, computer guy or just your average geek!  I am a little short at 5' 8" and a little heavy at 200 lbs. I hate writing, and I cant spell with out spell check!

I am a 1995 graduate of Archbold High School. In school I attended Four County Vocational School where I studied electronics and computers. I was able to "intern" at Sauder Woodworking as a network technician. I later was hired full time, and they sent me to college at Owens Community College. During my 6 year career at Sauder, I started working in the web development team. Later I moved on to Sonit Systems as a software developer. I am now the Director of  Information Technology  at Tri-State Expedited.

I am the son of Chuck and Pat Nicholls. I am the middle child of two sisters. Amber is my baby sister who is currently working at Northwest State College and I am very proud of her. Dawn is my older sister who past away in 2003, she has a little girl who is a spitting image of her.  I love my family very much. Unfortunately, I built a house in Northwood, OH in 2008, that makes me about a hours drive, so I don't get to see them as often as I should. They have been down allot to see my son play soccer this year, that was really cool!

ADD
So you may have noticed this guy has a lot of projects going on. What's up with that? Well its true, I have ADD or ADHD or whatever they call it now. So the short answer is I have to stay busy, I don't watch TV the News depresses me, so this is my outlet.  Its not an excuse or an illness to me, its who I am. I look at it as the thing that makes me special. Most people hate starting new projects, I love starting them. (to a fault actually) I work 120% until I get the hard parts done, then I get board. So my trick is to try to break huge projects down into 100's of little projects, start 5 or 10 little things, then circle back around when I get board. Its not perfect, and yea, I have lots a "little things" to finish up on almost all of my projects. If you spend anytime in my projects section of this site you will see that I have accomplished some pretty cool things.