{"id":142,"date":"2025-01-01T04:16:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T04:16:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/?page_id=142"},"modified":"2025-01-01T17:18:57","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T17:18:57","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/?page_id=142","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" style=\"margin-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">About Me <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" src=\"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/me.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-164\" style=\"width:270px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This is the part where I talk about me and you go, &#8220;I want to have a beer or two with that guy.&#8221; So here goes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve made a career out of trial by fire, or perhaps I should say, many trials and many fires taught me some things. Like how to listen. And how to treat people. I believe in building teams through encouragement and consistent coaching. I believe great work happens when people are free to create, which means creating smarter processes that enable them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;ve done standup comedy, and I write music, books, TV scripts and anything else that attracts my ADHD. I love to laugh. I embrace new technologies. I love new challenges. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If that sounds like something you&#8217;re looking for, my door is always open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>(I don&#8217;t really drink though, so you&#8217;ll have to be content if I just slowly sip that beer.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">R\u00e9sum\u00e9<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Executive Creative Director<\/strong> <br>Tandem Theory<br>2020-Present<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Creative Director<\/strong><br>Occam Marketing<br>2014-2020<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Associate Creative Director (and other titles)<\/strong><br>RAZOR\/Ansira<br>2007-2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Copywriter<\/strong><br>Miller Ad Agency<br>2006-2007<br><br>BA Advertising Communications, UTA 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Me This is the part where I talk about me and you go, &#8220;I want to have a beer or two with that guy.&#8221; So here goes: I&#8217;ve made a career out of trial by fire, or perhaps I should say, many trials and many fires taught me some things. Like how to listen. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-no-title","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-142","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/142\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisdodgen.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}