About
Our Name
The Nickel Capital of the world, Sudbury, Ontario is often referred to as the "Nickel City". The city is located in the Sudbury Basin, the third-largest known impact crater on Earth.
Our Location
We are active members of the Sudbury, Ottawa and Toronto Drupal communities and are proud to contribute to the City of Greater Sudbury through participation in local events and by supporting local businesses.
Our Mascot
Nickel City Creative is the proud owner Ryuzaki, the standard grey chinchilla. His inquisitive nature makes him the perfect pet for a creative development agency!
Nickel City Creative
Nickel City Creative is a Sudbury, Ontario based company that provides reliable, high-quality solutions to technical problems encountered by businesses, nonprofits and individuals located in Northern Ontario and internationally.
- We specialize in providing integrated solutions from infrastructure and hardware to client-facing applications
- We offer maintenance packages and support for all of our services and for existing solutions.
- We meet with clients at their places of business, in their homes, in public spaces or remotely online, whichever is most convenient
If you are looking for solutions to your technology problems or simply want to maintain or expand your existing infrastructure, Nickel City Creative can help. We offer professional hardware and software services that are customized to meet your needs and budget.
Drupal Development
- Custom module and theme development
- Integrate with third-party services and platforms
- Extend and improve core and contrib projects
- Site building and maintainance
Home Theatre
- Design and recommendations
- Audio/video calibration
- Custom wiring
- Networking and media servers
Networking
- Wired and wireless
- Custom wiring
- Rack mounts, server setup and maintainence
- Cloud integration
General Computer Services
- Computer repair
- Software training
- Custom computer systems
- Remote administration and maintenance
Our customized solutions come with many advantages; we have listed a few of these below. Contact us to see for yourself!
Experience
We have over ten years of experience providing computer, home theatre, networking and web development services.
Custom Solutions
Past experience has taught us that off-the-shelf solutions can only get you so far. Our solutions are designed to fit the needs and budget of each of our clients. We realize that you may have existing hardware, maintenance contracts and regulatory requirements. We'll work within your parameters.
Competitive Rates
We offer competitive hours rates for quality service.
Flexible Hours
From early morning to late evening, we will arrange our schedule to fit yours.
We have extensive experience in the areas of web development, audio/video, networking and general computer services.
- Drupal Distributions Engineer, Office of the Chief Technical Officer and Demo Engineer for Acquia
- Senior Web/Drupal Developer for the Ontario Ministry of Northern Development and Mines
- Owner and Sole Proprietor of devincarlson.ca
A history of successful projects.
- Maintainer of 30+ public projects on Drupal.org in use by over 200,000 websites.
- Build 100+ custom computer systems for use as servers, photo/video manipulation, gaming and more.
- Planned, installed and calibrated 20+ home theatre systems, from integrated 2-channel setups to 10-channel separates in theatre environments.
- Planned, installed and tested 50+ wired and wireless networks ranging from small home setups to rack-mounted, multi-switch gigabit networks running over CAT-6.
Devin Carlson
Director & Primary Developer
Devin Carlson has been involved with technology for as long as he can remember. Growing up in the City of Greater Sudbury, Ontario, he got his start in the world of technology by building and selling custom computer systems in elementary school to fund his desire to play with some of the latest gadgets and hardware. His love of music made moving into the field of home theatre assembly and calibration a natural second step. He then tied his interests together via programming and web development with a focus on Drupal which he now works with on a full-time basis as a Senior Engineer at Acquia.