{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-04T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-04T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/guts\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2010-08-08T15:15:41","modified_gmt":"2010-08-08T22:15:41","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/about","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The Melding of Me<\/h4>\n<p>Creativity is the game and organization\/planning is the way to make it useful. Essentially, I get to improve my PM skills by day and creativity skills by night.<\/p>\n<p>Professionally, I&#8217;m an IT Project Manager. I get to work with very talented designers, programmers, and db administrators to complete projects that affect the world-wide markets of two very successful liquid nutrition based companies. With my unique understanding of things technical and creative, I&#8217;m able to pull everyone together to complete daunting and exciting deadlines, while ensuring that deliverables are quality driven.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I have quite a few creative passions, the main two are photography and web design. I enjoy being out and about improving my photography skills, while expanding my musical tastes. This has lead to meeting several really talented musicians and even a few &#8216;stars&#8217;. When I&#8217;m not out, I&#8217;m usually working on a web project or trying to learn a new web skill. And no matter where I am, I&#8217;m constantly connected, social media is awesome.<\/p>\n<p>The melting of opposites is embedded in my very being. I was born on the Navajo Reservation and grew up with a driven desire to be an engineer. How a female native child decided to be an engineer in the 4th grade? It has only been recently that I think we (me and my family) have determine that it began with our trip to NASA. I rocked the math and science achievements for many years, until the passion of my creative hobbies reared it&#8217;s head in a loud roar, to which\u00a0 I couldn&#8217;t ignore anymore. So, I embraced my creativity, and switched paths just a bit.\u00a0 Since then my life has been very fast paced and full of new lessons to be learned.<\/p>\n<p>I look forward to the future and to seeking out opportunities to expand my skills both professionally and personally.\u00a0 One day I will get both to meld into one, so that I might be one of the lucky one&#8217;s that lives the mantra:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"color: #cc99ff;\">&#8220;Love what you do,<br \/>\ndo what you love!&#8221;<\/span><\/em><\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h4>My life is a fusion of opposites<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><em>fusion \u2014 n: The act or process of fusing or melting together; union<\/em><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>I am a quarter Hopi and three-quarters Navajo.  My clans (in English) are Towering House and Edgewater.<\/li>\n<li>I was born on the Navajo Reservation, but spent most of my life growing up off the Reservation in Southern Arizona.<\/li>\n<li>I am a Native American raised Baptist Christian.<\/li>\n<li>I love to learn about design and coding!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Melding of Me Creativity is the game and organization\/planning is the way to make it useful. Essentially, I get to improve my PM skills by day and creativity skills by night. Professionally, I&#8217;m an IT Project Manager. I get to work with very talented designers, programmers, and db administrators to complete projects that affect [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57,"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/57"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dafiredesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}