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Carsten Nielsen

About Me

I am passionate about design in all of it’s forms, I enjoy tinkering with mechanical things and computer software and hardware. I really enjoy discovering how everything works.

I am one of the three developers at LearnHub, the others being Wes and Libin. I do all of the frontend design and markup, I also do a fair share of backend development too.

I’m one of those people that you just want to punch because they enjoy their job so much. I have a blog that I don’t update often enough, but I’m on Twitter too and I update there quite often.

Influences and Inspirations

Edward Tufte, Alan Turing, Josef Müller-Brockmann

Favorite Books, Magazines, Art & Music

I.D., Print, Graphis, The Pragmatic Programmer, Code Complete, Thinking With Type, Toothpicks & Logos, Skinny Legs and All.

Educational Goals

  • Danmarks Designskole

    Desired Start Date
    September 2012

Academic History

  • Business Administration - Marketing, Undergraduate

    School
    Georgian College
    Start & End Dates
    September 2002 — August 2005 (Over 2 Years)
    Details
  • Secondary

    School
    St. Joseph's High School
    Start & End Dates
    September 1998 — June 2002 (Over 3 Years)
    Details

    Barrie, Ontario, Canada

Employment History

  • Software Developer & Designer, LearnHub

    Start & End Dates
    October 2007 — Present (About 1 Year)
    Details

    I do everything from design to markup to back-end development. Wireframes, Stories, Photoshop, Illustrator, CSS, XHMTL, Javascript, Ruby, SQL.

  • Proprietor, Design Explode

    Start & End Dates
    March 2006 — February 2007 (11 Months)
    Details

    Running my own business, I learnt that getting paid is hard, taxes suck and that following your dreams is the only option.

  • Junior Programmer, TSOT

    Start & End Dates
    February 2006 — October 2007 (About 1 Year)
    Details

    As much as this sucked, I learnt a lot.

  • Weldor / Fitter, Riken Manufacturing

    Start & End Dates
    January 2003 — March 2006 (Over 3 Years)
    Details

    Learnt a lot about myself and about discipline.