Ditch Geek Squad and allow November 2011 Playmate Ciara Price to troubleshoot your digital woes. “Ever since the seventh grade I’ve been a closet nerd who took apart computers and put them back together again,” the wireless consultant says.

Birthplace

Portland, Maine

I Love It When Guys…

Shows their feelings

My Celebrity Crush

Jared Leto and his band, Thirty Seconds to Mars

My Unexpected Interest

Contact sports like hockey and WWE

At school Ciara realized her techie wiles had the power to short-circuit the opposite sex. “I was the only girl in my computer class, and because tech talk is like a competition, the guys loved that I could keep up with them,” explains Ciara, who when she wasn’t online as a teenager was pirouetting in dance class. “I was like, Yes! I can finally talk to the boys about something!” Next on the Maine native’s drop-down menu is a move to Los Angeles, which of course will require packing up her iPad, MacBook, digital cameras, flash drives and whatever cell phone she’s toting around at the moment (“It’s a problem–I go through two or three of them a year”). Charged up over being a Playmate, an unexpected turn of events that came about when a photographer friend urged her to try modeling, Ciara says, “I’m so proud, excited and, yes, thankful!”

No price is too high for Ciara Price, Playmate of the Month November 2011. With blonde hair, green eyes and a quick wit, this tech expert can take a computer apart and put it back together again before you can count to ten. A former Verizon wireless consultant from Buxton, Maine – a very old, very small town near Portland – Ciara is a busy promotional model, and divides her time with her two dogs between Boston, Los Angeles and Sydney. She’s been romantically linked to a few different sports champs – UFC fighter Sean Loeffler, Boston Bruins right wing Tyler Seguin, and most recently, Sydney Roosters halfback Mitchell Pearce. “I like a good kisser,” she says. “But he has to be fit, not a couch potato.” A self-described ‘closet nerd’, Ciara likes to play computer and video games – but she’s physically fit, and also likes intense contact sports like hockey and wrestling. “I don’t think I even wore a dress until my freshman year,” she says, laughing. These days she’s a model for Victory Motorcycles, and beat out two of her fellow Playmates for the cover of the newest Victory brochure. When she’s not having her picture taken, Ciara likes to take pictures – she’s pursuing a second career as photographer, and hopes to open her own studio. We’d smile for her camera any day. Ciara talks point-and-shoot cameras and first-person shooter games in her Facetime interview.