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Nick Duell

I'm a Teacher turned Tech Nerd, working remotely from Rochester, NY.

I spent nearly a decade teaching chemistry in Massachusetts before moving into school administration and edtech leadership. These days, I lead Customer Experience at Droplet and run a consulting practice on the side, helping small businesses build better processes with modern web tools.

My approach is always the same: make it make sense. Whether I'm building a client portal, automating a workflow, or explaining electron configuration, clarity comes first.

Where I've Been.

Chicopee Public Schools

Chemistry Teacher

12-20

Chicopee Public Schools

Assistant Principal

20-22

Chicopee Public Schools

Dir. of Instructional Tech

22-24

Droplet

Head of Customer Experience

24~

Nick Duell Consulting

Founder

26~

Make it make sense.

That phrase has followed me from the classroom to the command line. Here's what it means in practice.

Start with "why is it this way?"

Before I build anything, I ask why the current process exists. From chemistry classrooms to school district operations to client portals, the pattern is always the same: clarity comes from questioning, not from layering more tech on top of a broken process.

Free up the brain

If a task doesn't require human thought, it shouldn't require a human. Moving data between platforms, entering dates, generating reports. Automate the mechanical so people can spend their energy on the creative, handcrafted parts of running their business.

Pick your metrics

There are a thousand ways to slice data, but without choosing two or three numbers to actually watch over time, nothing improves. I build systems that surface the right signals, not dashboards that collect dust.

Tech fits the process

Not the other way around. I'm not here to sell a platform or push a stack. I figure out how your business actually runs, then build tools that match. The transition from spreadsheets to software has growing pains, but I've been on both sides of that line.

These days, I live in Rochester, New York with my husband Matt and our dogs Charlie and Copley. When I'm not working, you'll probably find me brewing a Chemex, trying a new recipe, losing at board games, or cheering for the Buffalo Bills at a local brewery.

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