Cindy Beckles
Cindy Beckles, MBA, DTM is an Award-Winning Marketing and Event Management professional with over 23 years of experience encompassing product management, Public Relations and competitive analysis. She has a BS in Hotel Administration from Cornell University with an MBA from Clark Atlanta. Cynthia currently works as a Marketing Consultant.
She is a proud 18-year Toastmasters veteran and is currently the Co-Chair of their Distinguished Toastmaster Program. In addition, she has been a member of the Wellington Chamber of Commerce’s Small Business Committee for over nine years and Co-Chair for over two years.
Cindy Beckles has done Marketing/PR for RiverWalk Toastmasters, Blimpie International, Tyson Foods, the Wellington Chamber of Commerce, CAFCI Association, and many other government agencies and businesses. She enjoys spending time with her family as well as giving back to her community.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiaebeckles/
Jeffrey Holland
I am a Rails and Javascript developer who takes on the hard challenges. Currently I am working on a massive WordPress deploy designing the backend tooling and tests that keep things running.
Michael Schofield
Michael Schofield is the director of engineering @WhereByUs, and a UX designer specializing in #researchOps (systems of discovery, design, and development). Former WordCamp Miami Co-organizer :).
https://metric.substack.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/schoeyfield/
Alicia Couri
Alicia Couri strives to Influence, Educate, Inspire, and Entertain audiences as the Red Carpet CEO. She is an Empowerment Speaker, Kolbe Certified™ Consultant, Co-Founder & Executive Producer of Dreamaniac TV, Host/Broadcaster, Author, Actor, Beauty, Style and Personal Branding Expert. She is the Founder of Alicia Couri Inc. & Red Carpet CEO. She is the current Mrs. Elite United States Woman of Achievement 2020 and award winner, was named one of the 100 Influential Women by the Boys & Girls Club of America for 2018.
Alicia has appeared on ABC, CBS, NBC, multiple radio shows and podcasts, stars as the lead in multiple Independent movies and Best Selling Amazon Author and co-author of multiple books on Amazon.com. Alicia has a mission to help leaders’ step into their “Audacious Confidence” to live a life without limits and is the founder, creator and host of a Live Multi-streamed Webshow called the ”Audacious Confidence Show. As a Corporate Consultant, Alicia works with Individual Leaders, companies big and small to close the gap between performance and productivity, reducing stress, strain and conflict in the workplace to promote a happier, healthier environment that is highly productive boosting and generating more profits for the company.
http://aliciacouri.com
https://www.instagram.com/thealiciacouri/
https://www.facebook.com/TheAliciaCouri/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thealiciacouri/
#AudaciousConfidence
Patrick Alexander
Patrick Alexander is the CEO and founder of Balambico, A professional website and online solutions firm specializing in making companies look better than the competition online starting with a stunning professional website.
He holds a BS. Computer Science & Mathematics – Cameron University, MBA specializing in M.I.S – Wayland Baptist University. Patrick is a tech savant and enthusiast who has devoted himself to the tech industry for over 20 years gaining extensive experience in Programming, Web Development, Cyber Security and System Administration; and a resume with related positions in the U.S military, Universities and Internet Start-Ups.
Patrick hails from Dominica, the Nature Island of the Caribbean. His personal motto “Living To Not Be Ordinary” fuels him daily to be a motivated & driven individual who knows that hard work and steadfast discipline is the recipe for continued success.balambico.co | @balambi
Marco Berrocal
In this session we will explore a very underrated, unknown but important type of caching that is available to you out of the box in WordPress: transients. We will explore what it is, how can it benefit your site and of course, how to use with practical examples.
Bio
I am a WordPress fanatic. I have been using WordPress for almost 10 years (getting old I know!) out of Costa Rica. I am also an organizer for WordCamp San Jose, Costa Rica, which is one of the most popular WordCamps in Latin America.
I love pushing the Web forward with what I know, have learned and have given to others. I am currently employed by GreenGeeks and do some Web development of my own.
When I am not into my WordPress mode, I am a family guy. Love my kids, my partner and being around friends.
Jacqueline Lee
Jacqueline fell in love with words when she learned to read at the age of three, consuming every children’s book imaginable. As a young girl, she spent much of her time in libraries and bookstores (her first job ever was at the local library!)
After realizing her love for writing and editing, Jacqueline attended Florida International University where she earned her BA in English and her certificate in professional writing. Since then, she has stayed committed to her writing and editing career, spearheading Write & Day as Co-Founder and Editor-in-Chief. In her spare time, she loves hanging out with her cat, reading all the books she can get her hands on, and traveling as much as possible.
https://www.instagram.com/writeandday/
https://www.facebook.com/WriteandDay
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacqueline-lee-34862468/
Michelle R. Schulp
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?”
Juan Pablo Gomez
NYC based Web Designer with a passion for layouts and all things CSS. Built my first table-based site in 2004.
Built, and broke my first WordPress site over a decade ago when I neglected to use a child theme.
I have transitioned into a heavier UX Role where I also get to turn vectors into pixels so if you have any questions (figma, sketch, UX, UI, Grid, Flex, Subgrid, email-gulp-tables..) let me know!
Bianca Welds
Bianca hails from Kingston, Jamaica where she works in corporate innovation. She has been a WordPress advocate since 2005 when she set up her first personal website, eventually moving into freelance WordPress consulting. She decided to get more involved in the global WordPress community, including speaking at WordCamps since 2016 and starting a local meetup in 2017. When she’s all recovered, you’ll also find her playing steel pan or salsa dancing.
TW: @biancawelds
https://www.linkedin.com/in/biancawelds/
Anthony Miyazaki
I build brands, processes, and programs that deliver results. I’m a firm believer in people, truly constructive feedback, and the value of tangible results. If something’s efficient, effective, and sensible, I like it. In the few years that I’ve directed the revenue-focused marketing and analytics at FIU Business, we’ve grown annual revenues over $11,000,000 (yes, that’s per year) during a time when education revenues are shrinking. I lead two teams — a marketing/analytics team (5 people) and an academic/training team (40+ people) and we work together to build our individual and collective brands. Connect with me on LinkedIn; follow me on Twitter (@SensibleFolk); and catch my weekly #MarketingMinute videos on YouTube (and be sure to subscribe while you’re there).
Kim White
Kim White has been a web developer for over twenty years building websites and web-based applications. She has been using WordPress since 2008 and is the Co-organizer of the Lehigh Valley Meetup and Lehigh Valley WordCamp. She has been part of the organizing team of WCUS for the last 3 years.
Recently, Kim joined the support team at Paid Memberships Pro.
TW: @MrsCRW
IG: @MrsCRW
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimwhite/
Brian Messenlehner
Brian is a former software developer for the United States Marine Corps, the Co-founder of AppPresser.com, a WordPress based framework for building iOS and Android Apps, and the Co-founder of SchoolPresser.com, a company that specializes in building open source solutions for schools. Brian is also the Co-Author of “Building Web Apps with WordPress”, a book published by O’Reilly Media about WordPress as an Application Framework.
Tweets by bmess
https://www.instagram.com/messenlehner/
https://www.facebook.com/bmess
https://www.linkedin.com/in/messenlehner/
Tara Claeys
Tara Claeys began her career in advertising and marketing in the early 1990’s. After her first child was born, she supplemented her full-time job as Mom with illustration and stationery design for clients around the world. Her extensive marketing background and understanding of business quickly became her focus. Founded in 2010, Tara’s agency, Design TLC, specializes in websites and digital marketing for small schools, enrichment programs, camps and education-focused nonprofits.
She’s given presentations on essential tools for productivity (her passion) as well as sharing examples of websites she has built with WordPress and panel discussions on freelance work. Tara as a WordPress DC organizer and enjoys traveling to WordCamp conferences. Along with Liam Dempsey, Tara uncovers the stories of people in the WordPress community in their podcast Hallway Chats.
When Tara isn’t redesigning websites, she can be found volunteering for a nonprofit, running, challenging you to get out of your comfort zone, or vacationing with her family.
TW: TaraClaeys
FB: designtlc
LI: taraclaeys
Donata Kalnenaite
Donata is the President of Termageddon and the engineer behind the policy questions and text. She is a licensed attorney and a certified information privacy professional. She often volunteers at the Illinois State Bar Association holding courses on the General Data Protection Regulation where she teaches other attorneys on the importance of privacy and what Privacy Policies should contain. Donata is the newsletter editor for the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee and the Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Chicago Chapter.
https://termageddon.com/
TW: @termageddon
IG: @termageddon
https://www.facebook.com/termageddon/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donata-kalnenaite/
Cal Evans
Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We’re using the term “computer” loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PCs.For the past 15 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux, OSX, and Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications.
When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of “management by wandering around”.
These days, when not working with PHP, Cal can be found working on a variety of projects like Day Camp 4 Developers. He gives motivational talks to developers around the world. If you happen to meet him at a conference, don’t be afraid to buy him a shot of Rum.
Cal is based in West Palm Beach, FL – US where he is happily married to wife 1.36, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 wonderful kids who were both smart enough not to pursue a job in IT.
TW: calevans
IG: cal_evans
https://linkedin.com/in/calevans
Daniel Olson
Dan is the Chief Operating Officer of DigitalCube, a company committed to supporting WordPress and its communities. He’s a web developer, AWS superfan, JAMstack advocate, and design thinking enthusiast.
https://danielolson.me/
TW: emaildano
Dave Ryan
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary Developer at Bluehost, where he focuses on helping build WordPress and supporting the WordPress community.
In the past Dave has worked for large publishers and universities, scaling high-traffic WordPress sites by blending his skills in information design, journalism and web development.
Dave lives in Arizona, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
https://daveryan.io
TW: 0aveRyan
IG: 0aveRyan
FB: not used
https://linkedin.com/in/davidbretryan
Marc Gratch
I am a WordPress Consultant, a lifelong student, a husband and father. I have been developing themes and plugins for WordPress since 2.8 (give or take a point release,) with a strong focus on simple, specific, niche functionality. Most everything I know about code comes from the WordPress community which is why I try to give back as much as I can. I love the WordPress community!
TW: mgratch
FB: marc.gratch
LI: mgratch
Pat Ramsey
Pat oversees all aspects of the technology group at Crowd Favorite as Director of Technology. He brings over 20 years experience in web development, including higher education, government, and enterprise digital implementations. Active in technology communities since the early 2000s, Pat is one of the founders of the Austin WordPress meetup, having worked with WordPress since 2004, integrating it into higher education IT and faculty publishing systems. He’s also been a trainer and advisor for Knowbility.org’s Accessible Internet Rallies and AccessU, advocating for greater accessible web design.
https://crowdfavorite.com
TW: pat_ramsey
Dan Gudema
Dan is a writer, speaker, online marketer and software developer who has over 20 years of online experience. He is the founder of SEO Turbo Booster, a WordPress based SEO visibility solution. Dan cofounded Pre-Dating Speed Dating, the largest dating event company in the US as well as StartupPOP, a Boca Raton based pitch event. Dan has written 5 books on Amazon about startups, online marketing and online dating. Dan lives in Boca Raton with his wife, 2 boys, 2 cats, 2 dogs, 20 finches, 100 guppies and 500 snails.
Home Page 2022
TW: @dgudema
https://www.facebook.com/dgudema
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielgudema/
Rahul Nagare
Rahul has been working in the web hosting industry since 2005 and started using WordPress in 2008. Since then he has helped scale web and cloud infrastructure for companies like General Mills, Saks, CSX, and PetSmart. Rahul is now the co-founder and CEO at ScaleDynamix, where he manages 15,000+ WordPress and WooCommerce sites.
TW: @nginxreload
Fernando Gomez
Served in 2006-2011 as an active U.S. Army Interrogator where I got a deep understanding of human behavior, psychology and ticks. Transitioned from military into Product Marketer for a government enterpirse platform (apan.org) – Managed a agile development team on the communities feature while promoting campaigns both internal and external. Decided to go freelance after I helped a friend generate 20k on 1k ad spend. From there I took what I learned and started offering my services and went to build a team, won awards, and grew a bunch of companies (as their digital marketer) and have been doing that for the past 5 years as a full-time freelancer.
https://www.spartangomez.comTW: @spartangomez
IG: @spartangomez
FB: /spartangomezgroup
LI: /in/spartangomez
Wendy Guess
Dr. Wendy Guess has studied and taught transformation and behavior change for over 20 years. She has expertise in the promotion, communication, and marketing of health, wellness, across a variety of platforms and settings. Currently, Dr. Guess is an award-winning faculty member of the Dept. of Marketing and Logistics at FIU.
TW: #DrWendyGuess
IG: @DrWendyGuess
https://www.facebook.com/DrWendyGuess
https://www.linkedin.com/in/drwendyguess/
Nev Harris
I’m a speaker and educator, passionate about translating stupid financial speak* into plain English so Freelancers and Agency Owners can understand it.
*I call it “accountantese” – an overly complex language that is most often spoken by financial planners and accountants.
I could, literally, talk all day. So here is the short version of “The Life of Nev”.
6 facts about me…
- I’m an Agency Owner and I teach other Agency Owners and Freelancers how to understand their money so they can use it as a tool to make better decisions, have less stress, more freedom, and higher profits. In non-copy speak, I show businesses how to know their numbers (so they can make heaps more money without trying that hard).
- I’m a speaker and I travel internationally to talk to agencies and freelancers about understanding money and using that knowledge as a tool to grow profits. I really, really like talking about and teaching people about money (which is great because I suck at almost everything else).
- I figured out a few years ago that I HATE having a boss so I turned my talents to something that really lit a fire under my ass: Improving the financial literacy of Agency Owners and Freelancers.
- I get really (REALLY) angry at how inaccessible and complicated the finance niche makes money out to be. It definitely doesn’t have to be like that. In fact, I could rant on that all day. And sometimes I do.
- When I’m not spending my time talking about money, I spend my time working out, drinking smoothies and reading the Wall Street Journal. Yes, I’m incredibly wholesome but don’t let that turn you off working with me. I’m a wicked Cards Against Humanity player and always up for a “robust” discussion paired with a robust glass of red.
- I firmly believe money talk doesn’t need to be scary. Or boring. Or something you do behind closed doors with an accountant who looks like your dad wearing his funeral suit. Life’s too short for that stuff. Know your numbers, create your freedom. Easy!
TW: @thenevharris
IG: nev.harris
FB: Think Tank for Agency Owners and Freelancers
LI: Nev Harris
Yesenia Roque
Yesenia first began her storytelling journey when she was a little girl, listening to her grandfather recount his time in Cuba. Since then, Yesi has been consuming literary works of fiction ranging from short stories to YA to even classic Archie comics. Yesi’s vast knowledge of literary styles and formatting makes her the ideal Creative Director and co-founder of Write & Day, where she oversees the storyboarding process for book projects, working with clients to cultivate their ideas into reality.
https://twitter.com/WriteandDay
IG: @writeandday
https://www.facebook.com/WriteandDay/?view_public_for=1818644544866365
https://www.linkedin.com/in/yesenia-roque-55a44487/
Ivan Suarez
Ivan Suarez has more than 22 years of hands-on experience in information systems, technologies, and operations. Suarez holds a Master’s degree in Information Technology and a Bachelor’s degree in Information Security. He is a decorated US Army Veteran with extensive experience in information technology. His specialties include electronic warfare, exploitation, coding, networking, social engineering, cyber warfare, and signal exploitation.
He is passionate about providing or creating answers and helping others in the growing IT industry. Suarez also enjoys testing systems and looking for flaws or vulnerabilities. He loves to help end users by teaching and leveling the playing field for the safety of others and their children. Suarez has implemented and overseen several architectures, designs, and installed information systems for all types of operations and businesses.
He has created support systems that ensure that the organization maintains and hardens network infrastructures. In his spare time, Suarez volunteers at homeless shelters, teaches coding to children and warns others about the exposures and dangers pose by cyber criminals. He attends or hosts tactical events with others to teach and mentor how to respond to cyber attacks and rapid response measures and countermeasures.
Michelle Frechette
Michelle completed her MBA in Marketing, E-Commerce and Information Systems from the University of Rochester’s Simon School of Business. She has over twenty years of experience in higher education; ten years owning a web design and marketing company; and currently serves as the Head of Customer Success for Impress.org (developers of GiveWP.com and WPBusinessReviews.com).
Michelle is a veteran of public speaking. She’s been an instructor for a wide variety of topics including Using Quantitative Data Analysis Software, Meditative Drawing, Intro to WordPress, and Marketing for Massage Therapy. Michelle speaks at conferences all over North America. You can find many of them recorded on WordPress.tv including “Little Things That Make a Big Difference” and “Hidden Features of WordPress Revealed,” as well as panel discussions on ethics, marketing, page builders, and women in technology.
Michelle is the author “A Good Firm Handshake (and other essential business tips)” available on Amazon.com.
Say hi to Michelle on Twitter at @michelleames and check out her website at worksbymichelle.com.
TW: @michelleames
IG: @michelleames
https://www.facebook.com/michellefrechetteames
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michellefrechetteames/
Vivian Olodun
Flourish Media is a marketing collective that helps business owners speak clearly to their audiences on the platforms that mean the most to them. Flourish Media creates business development and training products, workshops and networking events to help businesses grow. Flourish Media is based in Miami, FL and supported by a small team of female entrepreneurs who bring decades of experience to growing, established & startup brands by aligning business owners with resources proven to boost exposure & revenue.
Maria Lopez
“Maria is a Learning and Development Specialist at White Shark Media. She is a marketing professional with a bachelor’s degree in Information and Document Management and Advertising and over 6 years experience in digital marketing.
During her free time, she enjoys baking and spending time with her family.
https://www.facebook.com/maria.j.acuna.14
https://www.facebook.com/maria.j.acuna.14
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-lopez-b86b6095/
Korene Stuart
After starting a career in programming, Korene Stuart felt there was more she could do to improve the lives of the community in which she lives. Learning the statistics for people of color in STEM fields was a wake-up call and she now serves as the director of MAScode( Minorities Advancing through STEM), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization she established that exposes both children and adults to the amazing careers of S.T.E.M.(Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math). She encourages experienced professionals in those fields to give back to communities in need. Her ability to effectively engage offers her the opportunities to serve in different leadership roles such as the Technical Lead for Black Girls Code Miami, serving on the Broward County Schools S.T.E.M Task Force and a facilitator for the Jamaican Diaspora Education Task Force.
https://www.mascode.org
TW: @koder_ks
iG: koder_ks
Carlos Vazquez
Carlos will setup and launch all the tech stuff you need to automatically attract more customers and convert them into cash. He’s been doing it since 2003 and has built campaigns for companies of different sizes to include Coca-Cola, Universal Studios, Disney, Carnival Cruise Lines and more.
https://miamimarketer.com
TW: @sgtpapi
IG: @miamimarketer
FB: @iamcarlosvazquez
LI: @carlosvazquezsr
Jean Felisme
I am a Builder on the Web! In my tool belt: PHP, WordPress, JavaScript, NodeJS, ReactJS | Co-founder of Rate My Barber
http://jeanfelis.me https://twitter.com/jfeliweb https://www.instagram.com/jfeliweb/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanfelisme/
Sebastiaan van der Lans
Sebastiaan van der Lans is an open-source fanatic who loves to explain complex technology in plain English. In 2006, he founded the Amsterdam based agency ‘Van Ons’. In 2013, he started to experiment with WordPress and blockchain, resulting in start-up WordProof.io, bringing benefits of blockchain to the WordPress ecosystem. At WCEU 2019, Sebastiaan presented ‘From WordPress to Blockchain: The Future is 100% Open-Source’. His motto: “Celebrate progress, tomorrow is just a dream away” – W. Disney
E. Anita Newman
E. Anita Newman, DTM is a speaker, certified trainer and MC known for her energetic and humorous speaking style. Anita discovered her passion for public speaking during her college years and later honed her speaking skills as a longstanding member with Toastmasters International, where she achieved the highest distinction of Distinguished Toastmaster (DTM) and served as Division Director, overseeing 26 Toastmasters clubs with over 800 members.
Also a Certified Trainer with The John Maxwell Team, Anita helps organizations improve the communication skills of their employees.
Most weekends you will find her hosting the performances at a prominent 1,200 seat performing arts theater in South Florida, where she has been the MC for the past two years.
https://www.johncmaxwellgroup.com/anitanewman?fbclid=IwAR0-gUGkmif_w1hSr9gyx9ao8vZJJ5cL0oYkErfdIG7irCwK3qPEV74TlP8
https://www.instagram.com/eanitanewman/
https://m.facebook.com/eanitanewman?tsid=0.8488968482121131&source=result
https://www.linkedin.com/in/e-anita-newman-dtm-26b4075a
David Yarde
David Yarde is an award winning designer and software engineer that is now focused on leveraging his 17+ years of lessons learned in design, software programming and building brand experiences to help individuals and teams build lovable products and cultures.
David helps brands fill the gaps within their creative and technology initiatives and is focused on building better communities by building better brands.
During Davids career he has helped to facilitate a variety of customer experience solutions involving developing creative teams, strategies, visual designs and software platforms for brands of all sizes from Avis, Merriam-Webster, and Walmart/Sam’s Club all the way to the startup owner with a passion to make the world better.
https://davidyarde.com
TW: https://twitter.com/dsmy
https://www.instagram.com/thedsmy/
https://www.facebook.com/thedsmy
https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidyarde/
Victor Drover
A self-taught web developer, Victor left a career as a Professor of Biochemistry to build websites with open source tools like WordPress. Having made and sold plugins for many years, Victor currently focuses on SaaS services for content management systems. When he’s not working in open source he spends his time travelling or coaching the girls rugby team at the High School near his home.
watchful.net
TW: @VicDrover
IG: @VicDrover
LI: @vicdrover
Annejeanette Washington Collins
A 27-year educator in South Florida, Annejeanette Washington Collins combines Computer Science and STEM into everything she teaches both K-12 and collegiate levels. Annejeanette Washington Collins is a proud alumnae of the University of Miami and Nova Southeastern University. She teaches 5th grade at Manatee Bay Elementary and is a professor at The University of Fort Lauderdale. When she is not teaching, she serves as a volunteer with Black Girls Code (Miami Chapter), The Faith Center Ministries ( Sunrise, Florida), The Broward County Mayors Chess Challenge, Broward STEM Department, Dare to Care Outreach, DadsBeonDuty.com and volunteers at Sawgrass Springs Middle School. Her greatest moments in life are spent with her husband Major, her daughter Jayda Washington-Boothe ( 3 time Word Camp Miami Speaker), her family, and the beautiful South Florida beaches.
m3momsblog.wordpress.com
TW: @professadiva954
IG: professordiva954
FB: @divaamw
Michelle Wiltshire
Without boxing myself in too much, I describe myself as always curious, overly energetic, and a holistically inclined person. By night, I’m a licensed clinical psychologist with a small private practice and every other waking hour I’m a Product Designer of digital products. In 2017 I chose to evolve my career to include design and development with a focus on Front-end development. My everyday motivation is to bridge gaps between needs and resources. I feel inspired by tech and design’s ability to have a positive impact on a grander scale.
TW: @michellewasabi
IG: @live.designwasabi
LI: @michellewiltshirepsyd
Sandra Wong
Sandra is a Program Manager at Magic Leap. She is also a Kanban trainer and coach. Some of her passions include facilitating workshops, supporting women’s groups, leading group meditations, doing Improv, blogging, volunteering, and challenging herself to learn and try something new everyday.
Scott Mann
Scott is the Founder and Creative Director of Highforge, an Orlando-based service agency focused on helping medium and enterprise businesses lead and succeed online. He’s an Emmy- winning commercial writer that’s sold millions in projects and generated hundreds of millions in new revenues for clients since 2001. He’s been managing commercial WordPress projects since 2009. He loves to solve problems, make clients happy and help creatives achieve their destinies. He digs racquetball, travel backpacking, scuba, Super Puzzle Fighter II Turbo, music festivals, fine tequila and a non-profit called Be the Match that helps save lives.
Jihana Barrett
“Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jihana Barrett has pushed her career in intelligence and cybersecurity to the limits.
Beginning her career in the United States Air Force, Jihana was quickly promoted to Staff Sergeant. During this time, she pursued a career in tech. After obtaining her Associates degree, she later completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Cybersecurity and acquired both her Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications (CEH) at the University of Maryland University College.
Following her separation from the military, Jihana received her Masters degree in Cyber and Information Security from Capitol Technology University.
Currently, Jihana is a Senior Threat Vulnerability analyst at one of the country’s largest tele-communications corporations. After many years of education and research, Jihana has developed a passion for excellence within her field—and encouraging up and coming women in tech to pursue their dreams in the industry through her organization, Tech Sorority.”
Kimberly Lipari
Kimberly is the CEO of Valet, a WordPress Management and Development Agency. She’s spent the last few years growing a business that focuses on service as a key selling point. Kimberly will share her firsthand and hard won knowledge of how support can make or break your business.
Victor Ramirez
Victor Ramirez began his foray into the interwebs building websites and email newsletters for various high school art projects. He is currently a lead software engineer at Dow Jones building WordPress projects for the Wall Street Journal. On the side, he runs An Abstract Agency – a WordPress-focused marketing agency. In his free time, he teaches high school students to code & coaches professionals in New York City.
Charles Johnston
Charles is a self-proclaimed and well earned “digital ninja” on a mission to help entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations change their communities. After spending the last few decades in the corporate IT industry he started a web design and digital marketing agency called HeartWired Digital Solutions, where they focus on putting compassion back into technology. His passion is helping nonprofits and small business owners share their stories on the web.
Matt Cromwell
Matt has served nonprofit organizations since early 2000’s as a web developer, educator, fundraising consultant, marketing consultant, board member and more. Currently, he is Partner and Head of Support and Outreach at Impress.org who’s mission is “”Code for Good””. Impress.org’s flagship product is the number one fundraising tool for WordPress websites: GiveWP.
Matt serves on the board of San Diego Refugee Tutoring, a volunteer driven organization dedicated to serving the rising refugee population of children in San Diego. He also serves on the board of Mid-City Church of the Nazarene who hosts bi-weekly food distributions, and houses dozens of other local NGOs in their facility in City Heights, San Diego.
Matt is a husband, father to four, and lover of all things musical and/or homebrewed. He also loves to talk about the most taboo of topics: Politics and Religion.
Luis Atencio
Luis Atencio (@luijar) is a Principal Cloud Engineer for Citrix Systems in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science and now works full-time developing and architecting cloud web applications using JavaScript and Java. Luis is also very involved in the community and has presented on several occasions at conferences and local meet-ups. When he is not coding, Luis writes a developer blog at http://luisatencio.net focused on software engineering as well as several magazine articles for PHPArch and DZone. Luis is also the author of Functional Programming in JavaScript (Manning 2016), co-author for RxJS in Action (Manning 2017), and currently working on his third book The Joy Of JavaScript (Manning 2019).
Andrew Norcross
When i was 17, i threw a party at my parent’s house while they were out of town. it ~maybe~ got a little out of hand, given the numerous games of human cannonball through the screened in porch. I woke up the next morning to realize I had about 7 hours to learn how to re-screen all the panels we jumped through. i finished with 15 minutes to spare. i almost got away with it, until my father found all the bottle caps in the pool filter.
Anelle Valdes
Anelle Valdes is a freelance editor and content creator, specializing in website audits, blog posts, articles, and resumes. As a professional with a master’s degree in marketing and undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology, Anelle breaks down marketing concepts and gives them a psych twist. Her desire is to help people feel more connected, productive and happy. She feels, fulfillment in what we do, while having meaningful relationships is key. Anelle has experience in the marketing, healthcare, and recruiting industries.
https://av-freelance.com/
Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.
As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan works with WordPress solopreneurs and business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses.
Nathan has been working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.
You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.
David Wolfpaw
David is a professional web developer focused on WordPress theme and plugin development. He emphasizes helping small businesses, providing ongoing maintenance and support, and educating users through his service FixUpFox.
Keanan Koppenhaver
Keanan Koppenhaver is CTO at Alpha Particle, a digital consultancy that helps plan and execute digital projects, mostly using WordPress.
He enjoys helping clients build out their developer teams, modernize legacy tech stacks, and better position themselves as technology continues to move forward. He believes that more technology isn’t always the answer, but when it is, it’s important to get it right.
Jocelyn Mozak
“Jocelyn has over a decade of experience building, running and wrangling a WordPress Website Design Agency all while having two boys at home.
While her education in engineering certainly refined her technical and analytical skills, it is her passion for what she does that makes her an outstanding WordPress web designer. She is an expert in thinking outside the box and filtering out the key points amidst all the noise.
In addition to running her Agency, Jocelyn is a mentor & business coach to other Creative Professionals helping them to build businesses that support the life they desire.
Chris Edwards
Chris is co-owner of Data Driven Labs, a WordPress Maintenance and Marketing agency. He is a 19-year Internet marketing veteran with experience in web design & development, search engine optimization, online marketing, social media marketing and mobile development. He is very active in the WordPress Orlando community and loves to help others learn new ways to grow their business. Chris has held development and Internet marketing positions in some of Orlando’s top technology companies.
https://datadrivenlabs.io | https://twitter.com/ChrisEdwardsCE
William Jackson
“William Jackson, M.Ed. graduate of 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 STEM.
William’s career includes teaching with NASA as an Internet and Technology
instructor in the 1990’s, technology consultant with Florida Department of
Education as a FIRNTEC 1998 to 2000, Professor with Edward Waters College
from 2004 to 2017 teaching Educational Technology, Social Media and STEAM.
He is a Ford VIP and Connect Ford Blogger with his business and life
partner Aida Correa (LoveBuilt Life, LLC). They are Community Social Media
Liaisons for TEDxFSCJ in Jacksonville, Florida and other organizations.
Involved in education over 30 years in elementary and higher education as a
Technology / STEAM and Physical Education teacher with Duval County Public
Schools. “Coach Jackson” and/or “Professor Jackson,” as his students call him.
National / International blogger published in the United States, Canada and the
continent of Africa his hash tag #myquesttoteach shares his journey. He shares
his passion for being a Christian and manages a blog Church of Christ and
Social Media https://churchofchristandsocialmedia.wordpress.com/ where he
provides strategies on how churches can integrate Social Media, Branding and
Marketing into Ministry for Evangelism.
The Digital Innovator for My Quest To Teach https://myquesttoteach.com/
that can be heard by Alexa and Google.
Instagram: https://instagram.com/williamdjackson Twitter: https://twitter.com/wmjackson
William has spoken at multiple WordCamps nationally and internationally from
2017 to the present.
Tara King
Tara King is a self-taught developer. She works at Pantheon, where she helps WordPress and Drupal developers build skills and optimize their WebOps processes. She has also worked as a Senior Developer at Universal Music Group, at small digital agencies, and freelanced for countless arts organizations. She loves using the command line and thinks you will, too.
She lives in Albuquerque, NM, where she plays boardgames, writes poems, and tends her garden.
https://pantheon.io | https://www.twitter.com/sparklingrobots
Nile Flores
“Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she’s settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design. Nile also works as an Infection Cleanup Specialist at WP Fix It.
She also loves helping people and contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user. Lastly, here’s a fun fact: Nile has been blogging over 18 years!”
Antoine Dupont
Antoine is a recognized expert and strategist in digital marketing.
He’s an award-winning marketing agency owner and a speaker at national & international conferences. He combines 18 years in marketing and 15 years in the hospitality industry.
His first job out of college was working for Gordon Ramsey in London at Le Gavroche. Antoine travels the world sharing his strategy and methodology to marketers and business owners. His goal is to improve lead generation and business growth via his proven marketing strategies.
As a result, he is an in-demand consultant on discovering the strategies that work.
Melanie Adcock
Melanie G Adcock is an Agency Owner who brings her artistic skill and web development background together to help Small Businesses and Nonprofits. She began her digital consulting career in 2010 and is now co-owner of Adcock Creative. She is especially known for creating beautiful church websites, providing excellent support to her clients , and being a creative problem solver.
Melanie G Adcock regularly speaks on various web design business topics at local WordPress Meetups and WordCamps . Besides speaking on business processes, software training, and design, Melanie volunteer at her church and runs the local WordPress Meetup Chapter.
When she is not creating stunning websites, she is reading, binging on BBC murder mysteries, cooking, or fishing.
Tracy Apps
“Behind the bowtie, Tracy Apps (@tapps) is a big-picture doer, a veteran UX designer, front-end developer, strategist, teacher, and artist, Tracy has amassed quite a wide range of experience since she started teaching herself code in the late 1990’s. Including teaching at several Universities, presenting at numerous WordCamps, and over 20 years of creating for either her own company, tracy apps design, her co-founded startup, inntro, or as a contractor for Fortune 500 & 1000 companies like Kohl’s, Johnson Controls, and GE Healthcare.
She also could probably deadlift you.”
Adam Soucie
“Adam Soucie is a front-end focused WordPress developer based in Kissimmee, FL. He is a member of the WordPress Orlando & WordCamp Orlando organizing teams and has a passion for building websites that are accessible to all users.
For more information on Adam, visit adamsoucie.com or impossiblycreative.com.”
Mike Herchel
Mike Herchel works as a senior front-end developer for Lullabot, and has been developing for the web for over 18 years. He’s passionate web performance, usability, and accessibility. You can often find him speaking on these subjects at web development conferences around the world.
Merary Alvarado
“9+ years of proven experience in executing, development and leadership of QA processes in digital strategies for Fortune 100 clients. Experience as a Digital Accessibility Consultant establishing guidelines, best practices and standards related to designing and maintaining accessible websites, responsive sites, native applications, and digital documentation. Train clients on using accessibility monitoring software and assist in identifying Accessibility First strategies and solutions focus on innovating products, services, and projects.
Founder of Quality Assurance Costa Rica #QACR and Accesibilidad Web Costa Rica group in Facebook. Vice President of Society of Women Engineers (SWE) Costa Rica chapter and member of Asociación Centroamericana de Aeronáutica y del Espacio (ACAE) working on the Spatial Spin-off Initiatives in Latinamerica.”
Birgit Pauli-Haack
“Birgit Pauli-Haack is the publisher of Gutenberg Times, a site with news around WordPress block editor and beyond. Birgit hosts regular Gutenberg Live Q & A on YouTube and co-hosts the podcast Gutenberg Changelog with Mark Uraine.
Birgit Pauli-Haack started working on websites in 1996 and has since then worked with publishers, artists, small businesses and nonprofit organizations. She founded Pauli Systems, LC in 2002, and leads a team of six dynamic online experts. Pauli Systems is a one-stop agency for web design, web publishing, online training and application development. Since 2010, her team has used WordPress to build new websites and web applications.
Birgit is a native German. When not in front of a computer, she runs, plays tennis, or hangs out with friends. She and her husband of 28 years love to travel and visit city art museums.”
Jessi Gurr
Jessi has been hand-coding websites since the day her dad brought home an AOL floppy disk in 1993. She started a website development company in 2005, and today runs a website development agency in Minnesota. A passionate entrepreneur, Jessi loves creating jobs, speaking about her experience growing a company, and sharing her experiences with freelancers and aspiring entrepreneurs. Jessi frequently speaks on business and management topics at local events and conferences throughout the US.
Jessi lives in Anoka, MN. When not running a business or chasing her two young children, you can find her in the vegetable garden or in the window seat of an airplane, traveling to her next adventure.
Andreas Lopez
Andreas first encountered Web Design back in Germany while taking Media Design classes where he learned HTML & CSS raw – no CMS, no aiding tools, just notepad and a cheat sheet of tags.
He moved to South Florida, US in 2012 where he became an IT Admin in 2013 and Webmaster by default at a small startup. This is when he used WordPress for the first time in a professional way. And from there on it was a deep dive journey straight into E-Commerce which is why he considers himself now an E-Commerce specialist & Accessibility Advocate.
He works full-time at a local business in West Palm Beach while building and selling Business, Gaming & Workstation PCs under his company ‘Omakase Consult’ – a hardware consulting & custom assembly company.
Jean Perpillant
Strategy Architect for Design Theory. A small creative agency in business over 11 years based in Orlando, FL.
Chip Edwards
Love’em or Hate’em, Smart Speakers like Amazon Alexa are being used by millions of people. Even more people are talking to their phones using Google Assistant and Apple’s Siri. Voice Technology is everywhere and is changing how people consume content. I’ve helped many well-known people like Seth Godin, William Jackson, and The Blind Blogger make their content available on Smart Speakers and Smart Phones using Voice Technology. If you’re interested in making your WordPress content available through Voice Technology, let’s talk.
Chris Wiegman
Chris is a Senior Software Engineer devoted to improving the developer experience for WordPress developers of all kinds. His work focuses on the intersection of development, privacy, ethics and usability of software and development to help improve the lives of everyone who uses the modern technology.
Diana Franco
An accomplished Graphic Designer and Marketer from Bogotá-Colombia and now living in Miami, with demonstrated success implementing integrated marketing to create high-quality and engaging content. Creative, strategic, and analytical thinker efficiently implementing marketing tools to enhance user experience and to increase social media engagement. Founder of the community @Uxbestdesigns Created to 💆♀️inspire, 🤳🏻promote and 🤝connect with other UX/UI designers, marketers and researchers.