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Charlie Nolan

I'm Charlie Nolan

Engineer by training. PMP by trade. Tool, system and process builder by passion.

Things I've built

The Class Board showing a day's workout

Ended nightly whiteboards at two gyms: an hour saved every day

WODBrain

Gym maths, in Python I taught myself

The Sherpaneer home page in 2022

A consulting firm's website, 2022

The first Cloudbreak website

The first version of this site

The Cloudbreak mark
Cloudbreak LLC · Founder · Since 2019

Every part of running a business, I have done for myself. I can do it for you too.

  • Founder
  • Project manager
  • Race director
  • Process builder
  • Operations
  • Events
  • Contracts
  • Consulting

Experience

Since 2024

ezCater

Senior project manager

Connecting catering orders to restaurants' own systems

Since 2024

Peaks to Portland

Race director

Helped the YMCA bring an ocean swim back after five years

2022 – 2024

Sherpaneer

Technical project manager

Stood up delivery at a first-year startup

2021 – 2022

Blackboard

Technical project manager

An online store, then a migration through a merger

2018 – 2021

ASC Engineered Solutions

Senior project manager

Built a project office through a merger

2010 – 2018

Electric Boat

Project engineer

Cut a submarine in half

Charlie Nolan

Get in touch

charlie@cloudbrk.io (207) 613-5353 Email me
Since 2019

Cloudbreak LLC · Founder

Cloudbreak is my own company, which I started in 2019. I am based in Freeport, Maine. I run it alongside my day job, and I run all of it myself.
Since May 2024

ezCater · Senior project manager

A table spread with plates of food

I work in ezCater's project management office. Most of my projects are integrations: the work of getting ezCater's catering menus and orders to flow into the systems a restaurant already runs on, so nobody has to type them in twice.
Since 2024

Peaks to Portland · Race director

Swimmers wading into Casco Bay at the start, with kayaks waiting and Portland across the water

Peaks to Portland is a 2.4-mile open-water swim from Peaks Island to Portland's East End Beach. It is the YMCA of Southern Maine's biggest fundraiser for kids' programs, and it had not been held in person since 2019. I was race director for its return and for the two years after, working with the YMCA's leadership and staff.

Two people in volunteer shirts, seen from behind, watching swimmers on the beach

On the beach in 2026.
March 2022 – 2024

Sherpaneer · Technical project manager

A desk at home with a laptop and a second screen

Sherpaneer is a Salesforce consulting partner founded in 2021. I joined in its first year with very little Salesforce experience, and was there as it grew to about twenty people.
September 2021 – March 2022

Blackboard · Technical project manager

A lecture hall filled with wooden desks

Blackboard is the education software company. I joined the month it announced its merger with Anthology.
July 2018 – September 2021

ASC Engineered Solutions · Senior project manager

A launch pad and its water tower at dusk

Anvil International made pipe fittings and supports for large industrial projects. A year after I joined it merged with Smith-Cooper, and in 2021 the combined company became ASC Engineered Solutions.
November 2010 – July 2018

Electric Boat · Project engineer

USS La Jolla cut into sections in dry dock, 2015

Eight years at General Dynamics Electric Boat in Groton, Connecticut, moving between new construction and overhaul as the work needed.
Web app

Class Board

The Class Board showing a day's workout

The day's workout on the gym's screen at Beacon Community Fitness and Yarmouth Community Fitness, written once and shown for three ability levels.

Before it, the closing coach at each of the two gyms wrote up the next day's whiteboard every night at the end of their shift, about 30 minutes each. The Class Board ended that: an hour saved every day.
Website · 2022

Sherpaneer

The Sherpaneer home page in 2022

The company's website as I built it in 2022, while I worked there. They have since redesigned it.
Web app

WODBrain

WODBrain

I taught myself Python to build this: a web app that does the gym maths for you, with percentages, one-rep maxes and a log of your lifts.
Website

Cloudbreak, version one

The first Cloudbreak website on a laptop The first Cloudbreak website on a phone

The first Cloudbreak website, which I designed and built myself. This page replaced it; the screenshots are how it looked on its last day.

Picture credits