{"id":2635,"date":"2017-08-24T19:49:41","date_gmt":"2017-08-25T02:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/?page_id=2635"},"modified":"2022-03-18T07:41:14","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T14:41:14","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/about-me","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-2637 size-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mpeay-2015-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mpeay-2015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mpeay-2015-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mike.peay.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/mpeay-2015.jpg 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Technology, like any tool, is only truly effective if it is wielded well. I&#8217;d really love to use my breadth and depth of tech knowledge and experience to help businesses to implement or better-utilize technology.<\/p>\n<p>As a self-confessed geek both personally and professionally, I firmly believe that technology can improve almost anything when properly utilized.<\/p>\n<p>My career has covered a spectrum but has generally remained in the software development realm. More abstractly, I have helped creative groups work more efficiently and effectively together to produce better outcomes than would have happened otherwise.<\/p>\n<p>Most recently, I have helped a small international non-profit be more successful by using communication and collaboration tools like VoIP phones, Trello, and Slack. I have also utilized by CS background to maintain and improve the essential internal Ruby on Rails database application.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Technology, like any tool, is only truly effective if it is wielded well. 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