Month: December 2019

Ronnie Burt – What’s Privacy Got To Do With It?

Ronnie is Chief Business Officer at Incsub, the company behind WPMU DEV, CampusPress, and Edublogs.

He’s a former educator, a math nerd, and a wannabe musician.

Colin Shipp – Building a Content Marketing Machine

An online marketing professional who’s obsessed with helping small WordPress based businesses grow. Over the past 5+ years, I have helped multiple online businesses build and grow profitable marketing departments from scratch.

Amber Pechin – Panelist on Hero Panel

Writer of words and teller of stories. Human of earth. Loves dogs, humans and Susan, who is a little of both.

Co-founder and storyteller at Amplitude Media where we build brands, websites and big ideas.

My specialty is branding products by telling stories in industries that are technical and/or academic and are traditionally considered complicated or boring.

My goal? Craft compelling stories about complicated topics using easy to understand narratives that helps users learn how the product or service will change their life.

Chip Edwards – What does your brand look like in a voice-first world?

Chip is a partner at CreateMyVoice.com helping content producers engage their audience on Smart Speakers like Amazon Alexa and Google Home. Chip is a teacher, speaker, and technologist who is passionate about connecting WordPress content to the new Voice Technology platforms.

Aaron Jorbin – Automated Tests: An investment strategy

Aaron is a polyhistoric man of the web who knows rabble-rousers get shit done. Currently, Aaron is the Director of Editorial Technology for Penske Media Corporation, where he supports the editorial and business teams on over 20 brands including Rolling Stone, Variety, and Footwear News. He is also a WordPress Core Committer that focuses on improving developer happiness and making the internet usable and enjoyable by everyone. He tweets at @aaronjorbin and writes regularly at daily.jorb.in.

Joshua & Micah Dailey – Listening Party! Podcasts and Multiplying Growth by Letting Others Talk

Micah and Josh Dailey are brand and content strategists based in Phoenix, AZ. With specialties in audio engineering and video production, Micah and Josh have been using WordPress since 2012 to share creative content for small local businesses, musicians, non-profit organizations, and large SaaS products alike. In their podcast, “Hello, WP!” Micah and Josh were commissioned by WPMU DEV to listen to and learn from professionals, critics and tech industry leaders about WordPress, including security experts, Google, and WordPress co-founder, Matt Mullenweg.

Chloe Chamberland – How to Succeed at Working Remotely as a Nomad

Trains, buses, planes, cars, cruise ships, parks… In today’s digital age, every single one of these places can be your office. Are you curious what it is like to work remotely while traveling the world? I am happy to share my experiences as I ventured off to China, Japan, Europe, and more over a 2 month span, in addition to many other adventures I have taken. If you have been provided with the opportunity to work from home I highly recommend taking the opportunity to travel while doing so. During this session you can learn tips and tricks that can help you start traveling the world today all while being successful at your day to day job, and learn why you HAVE to try it!

Ramuel Gall – Shut the front door! – How to avoid the most common critical vulnerabilities when developing your plugin

Ram learned to use a computer keyboard around the same time he learned his ABC’s, and never really stopped. He’s spent the last 10 years tackling odd problems in IT-land, classifying and cleaning malware, and cobbling together tools to make life easier. Ram is a GIAC certified Web Application Penetration Tester and a member of the GIAC Advisory Board, and is currently leveraging his ability to break things (usually by accident) to help ensure that they work correctly for others. In his spare time he likes reading (mostly fiction), building odd electronic projects, tinkering with his car, and even going outside during the half of the year when Arizona is habitable.

Pam Aungst – SEO Basics, Plugins, Resources, and Tools

Pam is the owner of Pam Ann Marketing and Stealth™ Search and Analytics. Both specialize in SEO, PPC, and Analytics. She is a passionate advocate of WordPress and regularly gives talks at WordCamps around the country about SEO, Google Analytics, and business topics. She also recently co-founded Cross Check SEO, which creates SEO monitoring plugins for WordPress.

Allie Nimmons – Supercharging Your Maintenance Packages

Allie balances her time between providing WordPress maintenance, tech support at GiveWP, and speaking at WordCamps. She is a self-taught designer and developer, working with WordPress since 2014. She is mildly obsessed with lists and wants to make the internet approachable and accessible to all.

Antonio Garza – Scale Your Business – Tips to Value Pricing Your WordPress Projects

Hi! I am an experienced marketing and sales executive with a successful history of working in the web hosting, advertising and online marketing industries. I have over 20 years of project and team management experience along with experience in business development & sales, creative; marketing strategy development, WordPress, and Search Engine Optimization.

Scott DeLuzio – Building a Recurring Billing Business

Scott is a prolific plugin developer, as well as a husband, father of three, and Army veteran, who unintentionally stumbled into web development while getting his degree in accounting. After graduating, he worked in the finance industry for six years, but continued to build websites on the side for family, friends, and local businesses.
After being deployed with the Army National Guard to Afghanistan in 2010, he took his interest in web development to a new level by joining a consulting firm’s in-house marketing team and eventually started his own full-time website design, maintenance, and support business in 2014.
Today, as his skills have grown and his interests have changed, he has moved away from websites and focuses primarily on building WordPress plugins for his company, Amplify Plugins. In his free time, he enjoys traveling, hiking, playing with his family, mentoring, speaking, and publishes a podcast called Drive On Podcast. Find out more at scottdeluzio.com

Chris Klosowski – From Maker to Manager: Lessons learned while transitioning my role

Chris is a Partner and the CTO at Sandhills Development, LLC, the creators of plugins like Easy Digital Downloads, AffiliateWP, Restrict Content Pro, and others. When he’s not busy helping build products to help your business, you can find him with his family, brewing beer, or tinkering around with something computer related.

Michelle Schulp – Rethinking Themes: Embracing Atomic Design With Gutenberg

Michelle is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think.

Now, she collaborates on projects with clients ranging from solopreneurs to enterprise. She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”

Aida Marie Correa – Panelist on Hero Panel

Aida is a modern-day renaissance woman who brings her love of teaching and creative background together to help women live more inspired lives. She is now a coach for women looking to reboot their lives, either by living more creatively or by starting new businesses. She is especially known for being an artist with a passion for her AfroLatinx culture, a floral designer, a speaker, and a writer. She is currently a Ford VIP Experiential Blogger and is a published author.

Aida regularly teaches kids at STEAM workshops and speaks at WordCamps and community events locally, nationally and internationally. Besides speaking on blogging, inclusivity, and the overall fun of WordCamps, Aida is an Organizer at WordCamp Jacksonville and loves to volunteer at any WordCamps she attends, especially at KidsCamps!
When she is not traveling or getting into shenanigans with her honey, she enjoys downtime at home, scrolling through Pinterest, hanging out at Starbucks or enjoying a crafty activity. She also has a thing for wapuu.

Marco Berrocal – Hook into WordPress hooks!

Hello! I am a WordPress developer with over 10 years of experience out of San Jose, Costa Rica. I am extremely passionate about contributing with fellow WordPress maniacs both at home (which I help organize) and abroad in Latin America.

My field of work is design and front end development. I love what I do and when I am not coding I am all about my kids, food and travel.

John has been building things on the internet for over 2 decades. He found WordPress in the summer of 2003 and has been fully immersed in it ever since. John was the organizer of the first WordCamp conference in Las Vegas in 2009 and has been involved with organizing it (almost) every year since. John has a passion for teaching others to use WordPress. He founded and organizes the monthly Las Vegas WordPress meetup where he’s a frequent presenter and has traveled the country speaking at WordPress conferences from coast-to-coast.

Tessa Kriesel – Net Promoter Score: Gauge the Status of Your Product

Building community and teaching come naturally to dog-lover and business owner & leader, Tessa Kriesel. She wears many hats in her life — all with sass and finesse — including founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW.

Tessa has spoken on many topics, including helping beginners with their development workflows, mentorship, building communities, and shedding light on continuous integration and deployment. She has also been a panelist on a wide range of topics at Conferences and Meetups.

When Tessa isn’t working on her development chops or building community, she is using her extroverted super hero skills to make people feel welcome and included at whatever event she attends.

Francesca Marano – The Art of Networking

Francesca is the WordPress Community Manager at SiteGround, web hosting company. She is one of the team representatives for the global WordPress Community Team], and she volunteers as a WordCamp mentor and a Community Deputy.
She was the release co-lead for WordPress 5.3, where she served as the project coordinator.

Francesca is a passionate speaker and you can find her around the world talking about WordPress, community, open source, women in tech, and small businesses.

Timothy Jacobs – Bringing Gutenberg JavaScript Outside of the Block Editor

Timothy Jacobs is a WordPress developer at iThemes where he works on the iThemes Security plugin. He’s a WordPress Core Committer for the REST API component. You can find him at https://timothybjacobs.com where he attempts to blog semi-regularly about WordPress development.

John Hawkins – How you can get involved with the WordPress community

John has been building things on the internet for over 2 decades. He found WordPress in the summer of 2003 and has been fully immersed in it ever since. John was the organizer of the first WordCamp conference in Las Vegas in 2009 and has been involved with organizing it (almost) every year since. John has a passion for teaching others to use WordPress. He founded and organizes the monthly Las Vegas WordPress meetup where he’s a frequent presenter and has traveled the country speaking at WordPress conferences from coast-to-coast.

Kori Ashton – 7 Steps to Sustainability – Improving your business model for freelancers and small businesses

Kori Ashton has been listed as one of seven women who run tech startups in San Antonio, Texas, to watch. She started her first company at the age of 12, and has had an entrepreneur’s heart ever since. She built her first HTML website in 1998, and was instantly hooked on Web design.

Currently Kori is the CEO of WebTegrity, a WordPress agency, and hosts a weekly giveback to the WordPress community on her YouTube Channel. And you can network with her via PressTribe – an online slack channel that she started in 2019 for WordPress freelancers and agency owners.

Tony Le – Preparing for the Flood. How do you conduct Load Testing to Ready your WordPress site for Viral Events?

Tony Le is a WP Engine Sr. Solutions Engineer, AWS Solutions Architect Associate professional, and New Relic Performance Pro certified. He loves discovering interesting, innovative technology, and learning how it can help transform the digital experience, all while creating ways for customers to win online. He is also recovering from a Topo Chico addiction.

Steven Jacob Francisco Peralta – Getting Started in The WP Community

Seventeen year old Steven attends the only coding high school in the country. He got into programming in his freshman year and joined the WP community three years ago and never looked back! He loves to skateboard, play sports, and eat hot wings! Steven plans on showing how others can get involved in the WP community just like he did at a young age!

William D Jackson – Panelist on Hero Panel

William Jackson graduated from South Carolina State University earning a Bachelor’s in Education, furthering his education earning a Masters of Arts in Teaching from Webster University with a focus on Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM.

William is not only an educator, he is a Social Media Digital Innovator, Digital Creative, Blogger and Micro-blogger and a Social Media Digital Community Liaison with TEDx Florida State College of Jacksonville. He is a Ford Motor Company VIP Blogger where he travels and blogs on community events sponsored by Ford Motor Company.