Organizers

With a life-long passion for art and a BFA in Visual Communications, Stephanie is a branding specialist and digital designer. Stephanie is the owner of Flightless, specializing in hand-crafted logos and extending brands beyond the business card. She has been involved with the Florida WordPress community since 2014 and has been honored to share her knowledge at WordCamps Ann Arbor, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and US. Most weeks you will find her attempting to balance design and homeschooling, exploring the world of flavors she can invent in her kitchen, and sometimes on Twitter @sjbrinley.

Roles: Lead Organizer, Sponsor Coordinator, Swag Wrangler

Laura is the Technical Director for Marjoram Creative, a B2B Marketing Communications agency based in Atlanta. She has spent 20 years building websites with a history of expertise in UX, eCommerce and Technical Project Management. She also holds a degree in Graphic Design.

In 2015 Laura moved to Julington Creek to join her now husband and can be found performing with her family band Radio Phillips when she is not unraveling technical puzzles. You can find her on twitter at @smartaleckl

Roles: Brand Coordinator

Frank Corso has been working with WordPress since 2009 and is the founder of WP Health, a simple WordPress monitor. He is the organizer of Gainesville’s Digital Marketing Meetup, WordPress Meetup, and PHP Meetup. In his spare time, he also teaches web development both as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida and at IT.Pro TV.

Above all else, he enjoys spending time with his daughter.

Follow him on Twitter or Instagram: @fpcorso

Roles: Speaker Coordinator, Statistics Wrangler

Young’s experience is fashioned from his education (chemical engineering and marketing) and employment in large companies in the 1970’s and 1980’s. He has worked as a marketing director in the consumer goods industry, taught marketing at a local university and worked as a gemologist and small business developer mostly in the pre-internet era. Now retired, he concentrates on photography and WordPress (as hobbies).

Role: Speaker Mentor

Get Speaker Help: FruitCove.Fla@gmail.com or 904‑217‑2527

With a unique combination of technical skills and a strong design eye, Karena has over a decade of experience in building her clients’ compelling, professional web presence. Karena runs Open Sky Web Studio in Jacksonville, FL, specializing in WordPress websites for small businesses and organizations since 2009. The organizer of the WPJax Meetup, Karena is a teacher at heart, striving to provide a creative and educational experience, without the scary tech talk.

Follow her on Twitter @karenalenore.

Role: Volunteer Coordinator

Jessica has experience in marketing, copy writing, volunteer management and administration. She is currently leveraging her experience and BS in Marketing to provide project support at Open Sky Web Studio. Outside of work and managing the household, she is a serial dabbler and has rarely met a craft or hobby she didn’t enjoy.

Role: Events Coordinator

Aida is a mom & grandma, lover of the Lord, writer, multi-media artist, poet, speaker, and blogger. She owns LoveBuilt Life LLC, a Creative Arts & Lifestyle Company, where she teaches people to bring more creativity into their lives by living “Life from the art”.

She also builds websites for start-ups on a budget and enjoys regularly attending WordCamp conferences (as a volunteer, speaker, attendee and, now an organizer), where she can relish in the WordPress Community and fan the flame of her ongoing love of Wapuu.

Role: KidsCamp Coordinator

William Jackson, M.Ed. has been an educator and college professor for 30 years. He has been speaking on technology and social media since 2005, and blogging at My Quest to Teach since 2013. His goal is to attend at least one WordCamp in every state of the U.S. over the next 5 years. He has already spoken at WordCamps in Canada and Costa Rica. William wants to expand KidsCamp to include STEAM and STREAM, and encourage young adults to attend, participate, volunteer and speak at WordCamps across the nation.

Roles: KidsCamp Coordinator, Student Liaison

Linda brings a writer’s love of words by serving as editor and proofreader to our written words. A WordPress blogger since December 2011, she writes with humor about gardening at www.southernruralroute.com. After joining Meetup WordPress Jacksonville, she summoned the courage to build a WordPress website with a pagebuilder for her daylily club at http://nfdaylily.com.

Role: Word Wrangler

Andrea LeDew began her blog For Random Learning Comes in 2015, as a homeschool journalism project. She has been homeschooling her two teenaged boys, one with autism, for nine years.

She fills the blog with recent flash fiction and poetry, as well as older essays on homeschooling, parenting, and disability.

Andrea studied English lit, German, and law. Her work as a lawyer was interrupted by her first child, and has remained on the back burner, through three more. She lives in Jacksonvile, FL.

Roles: Social Media Wrangler

A native Floridian, Gary is a backend developer at Modern Tribe. After attending his first WordCamp in 2015, he cleaned up a few of his own plugins and put them in the WordPress repository. Often dabbling in a side project to satisfy his own curiosity, Gary can be found attending and sometimes speaking at Florida WordCamps. He is also one of three hosts of the free-style podcast, Binary Jazz.

When he’s not in front of his computer, Gary is playing with his kids or trying to learn a new obscure stringed instrument.

Role: Food & Beverage Coordinator

Ian is the founder of TitanHost, a Managed WordPress Hosting company and a Frontend Developer at Oyova Software in Atlantic Beach. Ian has been working with WordPress for over 5 years, doing functional app and custom theme development. When Ian isn’t coding, he loves spending time with his wife and daughter, playing tabletop games, video games, and his guitar.

Twitter: @iansvo

Role: A/V Coordinator

Scott Anderson founded a software development company Get Code Smart. A developer by trade, he has had a passion for software and web development for over 5 years most of which were spent working with WordPress. His primary focus is developing church-related software and website ranging from e-commerce to online learning platforms.

Role: Tech Wrangler

Daniel has been developing with WordPress for over 8 years. He developed and maintains several successful plugins including Popup Maker and Easy Modal and has a new plugin called Ahoy! which provides targeted user messaging and cart abandonment prevention.

Daniel enjoys his family, constant learning and is always trying to make something better than it was. He considers himself an entrepreneur and has been client-free for nearly 4 years as a WP product developer.

Find him on Twitter: @daniel_iser, or WordPress.org

Role: Community Engagement Wrangler