WordCamp Jacksonville is excited to announce our third set of confirmed speakers for this year’s conference! Stay tuned for announcements about the rest of our speakers.
If you missed our previous speaker announcements, check out our first round and second round of speakers too!
Scott Anderson
Scott founded a software development company, Get Code Smart. A developer by trade, he has had a passion for software and web development for over five years, most of which were spent working with WordPress. His primary focus is developing church-related software and websites ranging from e-commerce to online learning platforms. Christie Chirinos
Christie Chirinos is the Product Manager for the Managed WooCommerce Hosting product at Liquid Web, Inc. Before Liquid Web, she oversaw the growth of Caldera WP’s Caldera Forms plugin to 2 million+ downloads from the WordPress.org plugin repository. Christie started making websites at the age of 14, running her own blog, business websites, and later working professionally on the sites of major national non-profit organizations – on WordPress, of course. Christie has a Master of Business Administration degree from Florida State University and is currently based out of Washington, DC, where she lives with her cat, Snickers.
David Zimmerman
David is an internet marketing consultant who specializes in search. He has several years of experience working with B2B companies, especially manufacturers. He started his own consultancy, Reliable Acorn LLC, after working in several agencies. David grew up in Wichita, Kansas as the son of an electrical engineer and an art teacher. He brings these dramatically different perspectives together to help his clients. This allows David to understand the technical and creative aspects to internet marketing. He is equally comfortable speaking with developers and designers. After several years of recommending WordPress to his clients, David eventually created his own theme. It was accepted into the WordPress Theme Directory.
Although not the most beautiful theme ever created, it taught him a lot about the platform and how to better work with WordPress websites. David’s core marketing belief is that all marketing should be measured. Measured marketing is more effective and less expensive. There’s no excuse, in David’s mind, for marketing efforts whose results are not measured. As a consultant, David is often hired to supplement existing marketing teams. Sometimes these companies aren’t as familiar with internet marketing. Other times these companies don’t have time to execute an internet marketing campaign.
David Zimmerman on LinkedIn
Jonathan Brinley
Jonathan began tinkering with WordPress websites and plugins fourteen years ago, taking the plunge into full-time freelancing shortly thereafter. He has collaborated with the distributed team at Modern Tribe for the last nine years, and currently leads a team of developers to build delightful and creative solutions on top of the WordPress platform. When he’s not coding, Jonathan is busy homeschooling his two children and enjoying the beautiful weather of Northeast Florida.
http://xplus3.net/ • http://tri.be/ • http://flightless.us/
Tessa Kriesel
Teaching and mentorship come naturally to the dog-lover and Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon. Tessa wears many hats in her life — all with sass and finesse — including instructor for Girl Develop It, lead organizer for WordCamp Minneapolis, and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW.
Tessa has spoken on many topics including helping beginners with workflow, mentorship, configuration management, 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 mentoring junior developers, she is using her extroverted super hero skills to make people feel welcome and included at whatever event she attends.
Joshua Giowaya
Joshua is passionate about creating well-crafted, visually-engaging and highly-usable digital experiences. He has over ten years experience in web design and development at advertising and digital agencies. He also has run his own consultancy for many years. His experience in design has proven invaluable in developing designs and communicating with creative teams.
He is currently a WordPress consultant and extremely active in the WordPress community, regularly speaking at local WordPress Meetups.
Ian Svoboda
Ian is the founder of TitanHost, a managed WordPress hosting company and a front-end developer at Oyova Software in Atlantic Beach. Ian has been working with WordPress for over five years, doing functional app and custom theme development. When Ian isn’t coding, he loves spending time with his wife, playing tabletop games, video games, and his guitar.
Twitter: @iansvo
Micah Wood
Micah, a professional WordPress developer for over a decade, has worked on sites for Fortune 100 companies and has released over a dozen WordPress plugins. He is a frequent speaker at WordCamps and a co-organizer of the WordPress Gwinnett meetup. Micah is a co-host on the WP Square One podcast and shares his knowledge by blogging on WordPress development topics.