Nick Cernak

Expe­ri­enced, enter­pris­ing, online con­tent devel­oper and web designer with wide knowl­edge of com­puter tech­nol­ogy. Pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence includes project man­age­ment for For­tune 500 cor­po­ra­tion, graphic design for inde­pen­dent per­form­ing artists, eCom­merce, tar­get mar­ket­ing, and pro­duc­tion of online train­ing courses. Excel­lent at cul­ti­vat­ing client rela­tions, team build­ing, with action–oriented work ethic.

Cur­rent Town:
SF Bay Area, California

Inter­ests:
Tech­nol­ogy, art, music, food, out­door recre­ation, pop cul­ture, and laugh­ing

Books i ♥:
Art of War by Sun Tzu
Blink: The Power of Think­ing With­out Think­ing by Mal­colm Glad­well
Re-Imagine!: Busi­ness Excel­lence in a Dis­rup­tive Age by Tom Peters
The Tip­ping Point: How Lit­tle Things Can Make a Big Dif­fer­ence by Mal­colm Glad­well
The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Busi­ness, Media, & Tech­nol­ogy Suc­cess by David Vise
Andy Warhol: Giant Size by Edi­tors of Phaidon Press, Steven Blut­tal, and Dave Hickey
Art of Mod­ern Rock: The Poster Explo­sion by Paul Grushkin and Den­nis King
The Art of Rock Posters from Pres­ley to Punk by Paul Grushkin
The Art of Sim­ple Food: Notes, Lessons, & Recipes from a Deli­cious Rev­o­lu­tion by Alice Waters

Inspi­ra­tion:
“It is not the strongest of the species that sur­vives, nor the most intel­li­gent, but the one most respon­sive to change.” — Charles Darwin

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” — Gandhi

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

“Never doubt that a small group of com­mit­ted peo­ple can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has.” — Mar­garet Mead

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most peo­ple exist, that is all.” — Oscar Wilde

“Dream as if you’ll live for­ever. Live as if you’ll die today.” — James Dean

“You can’t behave in a calm, ratio­nal man­ner. You’ve got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.”—Jack Welch, retired CEO, GE

“The deep­est human need is the need to be appre­ci­ated.” — William James

“The two most pow­er­ful things in exis­tence: a kind word and a thought­ful ges­ture.” — Ken Lan­gone, founder, Home Depot

“Life is either a dar­ing adven­ture, or noth­ing.” — Helen Keller

“Peo­ple want to be part of some­thing larger than them­selves. They want to be part of some­thing they’re really proud of, that they’ll fight for, sac­ri­fice for, that they trust.” — Howard Schultz, Starbucks

“If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrel­e­vance even less.” — Gen­eral Eric Shin­seki, retired Chief of Staff, U. S. Army

“I guess it comes down to a sim­ple choice, really. Get busy liv­ing, or get busy dying.” — The Shaw­shank Redemp­tion (Tim Robbins)

“A man with­out a smil­ing face must not open a shop.” — Chi­nese Proverb

“The great­est dan­ger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it. — Michelangelo

“Before you can inspire with emo­tion, you must be swamped with it your­self. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To con­vince them, you must your­self believe.” — Win­ston Churchill

“Noth­ing is so con­ta­gious as enthu­si­asm.” — Samuel Tay­lor Coleridge

“If you’re enthu­si­as­tic about the things you’re work­ing on, peo­ple will come ask you to do inter­est­ing things.” — James Woolsey, for­mer CIA director

“A leader is a dealer in hope.” — Napoleon

“You are the sto­ry­teller of your own life, and you can cre­ate your own leg­end or not.” — Isabel Allende

“There is no rea­son not to fol­low your heart. … Stay Hun­gry. Stay Fool­ish.” — Steve Jobs, 