{"id":242,"date":"2014-04-15T12:23:45","date_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:23:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/?page_id=242"},"modified":"2014-04-15T12:23:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-15T18:23:45","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/about-me\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in the technology field for 25-plus years and have seen a lot of things emerge, change and disappear over that time.<\/p>\n<p>It has been a long time since my uncle Hank first introduced me to the amazing world of computers when I was quite young. \u00a0He taught me to program in BASIC on an Ohio Scientific Challenger 2P, equipped with a small black and white TV and a handy, dandy cassette recorder. \u00a0I was hooked, I dove right into this new world, and I never looked back.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/challenger-2p.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-243\" alt=\"OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/challenger-2p-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/challenger-2p-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/challenger-2p.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since then, I&#8217;ve worked in several different venues, but never straying far from the convenience of using technology to make things easier.<\/p>\n<p>Now days, I generally work as a program manager and technical lead for various technology project, but I like to stay focused on the Microsoft System Center family of products. \u00a0So, if you see posts about project management, don&#8217;t be surprised, as that consumes a lot of my time today. \u00a0But, technology is always right there at my side, making things easier &#8211; sometimes&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy my blog and I hope that some of things I post will help you along your journey as well!<\/p>\n<p>Mike<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been in the technology field for 25-plus years and have seen a lot of things emerge, change and disappear over that time. It has been a long time since my uncle Hank first introduced me to the amazing world of computers when I was quite young. \u00a0He taught me to program in BASIC &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/about-me\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">About Me<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-242","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3iUa6-3U","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/242\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.phantomimages.com\/blogs\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}