A. D. Cook
A.D. Cook is both artist and geek. has been creating for the Internet since 1995 and has designed multiple websites in WordPress, including five currently ranking in top million (based on Alexa).
An avid SEO geek, A.D.’s current project, Nevada Beer Quest is a top ranking authority site for Nevada’s passionate craft beer lovers and home brewers. While new, the NevadaBeerQuest.com website is already ranking near the top 100k Alexa global / top 17k US, and appearing at the top of search engines for high ranking key words.
As co-author of DREAM TO LAUNCH, published in 2017, A.D. enjoys sharing internet concepts and design ideas with visionaries and other creatives.
A freelance designer, A.D. helps individuals and businesses create a powerful online presence from concept-to completion.
Amy Kamala Fiske
As a WordPress Technician, Amy has been dedicated to facilitating the success of WordPress users around the globe for the past five years. In support of open source, she acts as a WordPress.org hosting contributor; assisting with #hosting-community team organization. Amy was born and raised in Venice Beach, California and is a mother of two. With an MFA from UCLA, you can also catch her artwork in galleries and festivals in Southern California and beyond.
AmyJune Hineline
AmyJune is an active contributor in the open-source world. As the Open Source Community Ambassador at Kanopi Studios, AmyJune helps to ensure her team remains connected to open-source communities.
AmyJune co-organizes various open-source camps and conventions throughout North America, all while helping each of the communities be more inclusive. This focus enables others to forge deep community connections that benefit the whole. As a self-described non-coder, she helps communities discover how they can contribute back in more ways than code.
In addition to her work building community connections, AmyJune is an avid geocacher, noted Volkswagen enthusiast, and eats with her elbows on the table.
Beth Livingston
Beth built her first WordPress website in 2009 for a side business, was immediately smitten, and soon began building websites for other small businesses. In 2016, after a long history as an IT Business Analyst, Instructional Designer, and Project Manager, Beth left the corporate world to become a full time WordPress Coach and Designer, and now also enjoys providing real-life project management skills training for other WordPress solution providers via WP Roadmaps and Coaching.
Beth is the author of The Complete Project Management Roadmap for WordPress framework and training program, administers the WordPress Project Management Facebook group, and serves as an organizer for the Triad WordPress Meetup Group where she has hosted several “happiness bar” type events for those needing help.
Beth enjoys teaching and has presented talks at various WordCamps across the country, the Triad WordPress Meetup, and has taught project management classes at Guilford Technical Community College’s Small Business Center in Greensboro NC.
In her spare time, what there is of it, Beth also enjoys singing in her church choir, visiting live music venues and occasionally acting and singing in local theater productions.
Bridget M Willard
Bridget Willard is a marketing consultant who brings her teaching and accounting background together to help small businesses. She began her marketing career in construction, then worked in franchise development, nonprofits, and tech. She is especially known for her brand building for Riggins Construction, GiveWP, and the Make WordPress Marketing Team.
Bridget co-hosts WPblab with Jason Tucker — a podcast and live YouTube show on the WPwatercooler network.
Besides speaking at WordCamps near and far, Bridget was an organizer for Los Angeles for a few years and Orange County since 2017.
When she’s not writing about marketing or social media, she is spending time with her friends, changing her hair style, learning languages on Duolingo, or walking by the ocean.
Say hi to her on Twitter at @youtoocanbeguru and check out her site at bridgetwillard.com.
Darcey Hall
Darcey Hall is the founder and CEO of GoalDen Solutions, a digital marketing agency with a “whole Den of Solutions to help Nonprofits reach their Goals!” For over 20 years, Darcey’s worked in the marketing teams of international and local businesses alike. She has a passion for helping others and has consistently been marketing for nonprofits she’s involved with.
In 2004, Darcey built her first Yahoo GeoCities website for her local Kiwanis Club and advanced her HTML skills sprucing on MySpace pages, lol. After moving to Las Vegas and starting her own agency, she became a regular at WordPress Meetups in 2017, attended WordCamp Phoenix, and has spoken at WooCommerce and Digital Marketing Meetups.
Outside of work and networking, Darcey loves working out, traveling, volunteering, leads a few Meetups including Las Vegas Small Business Owners, and is helping charter the new “for-purpose” focused Cause Marketing Chamber of Commerce and Cause Masters Toastmasters.
Twitter: @DarceyNetwork and @GoalDenSolution
David Mayne
David Mayne is the Digital Strategist and COO for PIMedia LLC (pimedia.me), a Las Vegas digital marketing agency. He has extensive experience as a WordPress designer and he is certified in multiple marketing technologies. His career began in corporate computing and business application development. Today, he leads his team in website design and strategy for business marketing and is a “Digital Marketing Turn Around” specialist. He takes under or non-performing digital campaigns and re-engineers them into marketing machines for businesses and brands.
David Ryan
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary WordPress 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 Phoenix, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
Twitter – https://twitter.com/0aveRyan
Desiree Johnson
Desiree is a passionate writer and storyteller who advocates for diverse and multiracial audiences. She currently works as a WordPress Content Specialist for Bluehost and enjoys helping users learn more about WordPress through blogs, webinars, and media content. She considers herself a walking IMDB and loves to talk about anything pop culture and movie related.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dezij7
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne McDaniel has been working in tech and open source since 2005.
Once he dipped a toe into the world of Free and Open Source Software, he knew never wanted to work outside of it again. Over his years of sales and marketing roles, including Developer Advocate at a Pantheon, he developed a passion for optimizing business processes and project workflows. He has since founded Process Digital Consulting to focus on helping people design internal procedures to improve productivity. A a speaker, Dwayne has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland and from MIT and Stanford.
Reach out at processdigitalconsulting.com or on twitter @mcdwayne
Jim Raffel
Whatness Websites & Words – Owner, Business Development & Technology
Jim started his first WordPress blog in the middle of 2005. He quickly learned his way around the backend to create the look and feel he desired. Later he used his Linux and programming past to hack code together in an effort to get even closer to his vision of a perfect website. In 2010 Jim began partnering with Shelby and quickly learned that Comic Sans was not a good choice for, well anything! Working together from that point on, Jim has managed the backend technology of as many as 20 websites while Shelby takes care of the front-end design, typography, and most importantly proofreading. Jim also has a few other businesses he’s involved with and in all those businesses one of his key focuses is driving sales which he prefers to call business development.
Twitter: @raffel
Jodie Riccelli
Jodie Riccelli sits as the Director of Business Development at WebDevStudios. Since starting with the company in 2016, she has been responsible for creating unique web strategies and solutions for clients including Viacom, The National Domestic Violence Hotline, and The Society of Women Engineers. Jodie brings twenty years of sales and marketing experience to WebDevStudios. Her marketing expertise and ability to restructure and to systematize businesses has been recognized by business leaders in many fields including media, consumer product goods, and nonprofits.
She was on the organizing team for WordCamp US in Philadelphia and can be found speaking at WordCamps across the country. In her downtime, she shares life experiences about screwing up on Izzabeth.com and has been known to get lost in old bookstores avoiding the fact that there is no more shelf space at home. Jodie lives in Philadelphia and constantly talks about her pups, Sir Frankie and Arya Bark.
Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jodie_Riccelli
Joe A Simpson Jr
During sun-soaked days, Joe works at Metro LA, one of the largest transit agencies in the country, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. When their lead developer and CSS specialist both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history. Over ten years later, he manages a WordPress blog network consisting of dozen project-specific or transit news sites and growing.
Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted on all things WordPress, leveraging his creative past, teaching tech, and truly giving back by sharing his story of re-igniting your dreams. He actively contributes the WordPress Community, founding the WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps.
In April, he was Lead Organizer for his brainchild, WordCamp Santa Clarita, was the first WordCamp north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco in over five years.
John Hawkins
John has been building things on the internet for over 2 decades. He found WordPress in the summer of 2003 and has been fully emersed 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.
Joseph LoPreste
Joe LoPreste is co-owner of a WP development company StPeteDesign based out of Tamp Bay Fl. and he is the father of 2 amazing girls that bring balance to his life. He brings more than 12 years of business and technology experience to the team.
He is very passionate about inclusive design for WordPress and considers himself a web accessibility advocate. He travels around the U.S. giving presentationsto WordPress developers, designers and agencies about web accessibility and how easy it is to be and stay compliant. He stubbornly believes that he can make a difference. One web site at a time!He is very active in the WordPress community and loves helping grow it. He co-organizes the WP Tampa Meetup group and is very active in the WordPress St. Pete meetup group. He regularly offers his time and knowledge of web accessibility for free to non-profits and to anybody who asks.
Joshua Copeland
Joshua Copeland has been building software for over a decade. Using the skills he has developed over the years with the help of great mentors; he can build systems from A-Z. His main focus has been PHP over the last 7 years and continues to use the language everyday via great frameworks like WordPress, Symfony, Laravel, and more. DevOps and other architectural topics are also of importance to his craft. He is very active with the community at large and has been hosting the PHP Vegas Meetup for over 4 years. Over the last year, he has been building RemoteDevForce.com (a remote software development shop) and is blessed to work with very talented programmers. When he isn’t coding, he is spending time with his beautiful wife and 2 adorable kids. Come say hello if you catch him around!
Kenny Eliason
As a native to Las Vegas, Kenny knows this town like the back of his hand. In 2011 he started NeONBRAND, where he fills his days helping build businesses through SEO and other website marketing techniques. He is a self taught WordPress developer who loves to build awesome sites for customers all around the world. He is also fluent in Spanish and loves to speak it whenever he can.
Kim D. Snyder
Kim D. Snyder is a business growth expert. She spent 20+ years as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies in business growth, strategy, and transformation.
She is the founder of Online Marketing In A Box and Kim D Snyder, where both organizations work with business executives, leaders and owners to create more opportunities and profits faster.
She enjoys spending time with her husband Rob, friends and family in Las Vegas and San Diego. You can catch Kim enjoying a glass of red wine or taking a walk or finding the latest gadget. She is currently working on a book.
Laura Coronado
With a love for all things marketing and communications, Laura Coronado is a communications specialist at WebDevStudios where she manages the blogs, website content, and social media profiles for the WordPress design and development agency and its family of brands. She also runs her own women’s lifestyle blog at LollieShopping.com and freelances as a travel writer covering Las Vegas. She’s writing a book and launching a podcast about divorce, dating, and how there are no nice guys.
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell started at Horizon Web Marketing in 2014. His responsibilities include building WordPress websites, PPC management, link building, and implementing SEO.
In his spare time, Matt continued his passion for music and weddings by creating My Wedding Songs in January 2017 with WordPress. The website has grown to more than 4 million annual visitors and is ranked as the 16th best wedding blog in the world by Feedspot.
Maximiliano Lopez
Maximiliano Lopez, known as Max, has been in making money online since Frontpage 98. He realized he could leverage FAQs and would only have to answer them once and refer clients to the site.
He later became a Powerseller on eBay selling parts online, an online salvage yard. This gave him his passion in eCommerce and online business. During this time he completed a Masters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Swinburne University.
Fast forward 20 so years and Max became the founder of Lobo Digital Solutions, an Online Reputation Management Firm working with Gurus in the Real Estate industry and Politicians.
Michael Cremean
Michael Cremean is the Founder and CEO of Quadshot. Michael has led teams of over 70 people and managed complex technology product launches over the last 20 years. He has led efforts launching products in many markets, including wireless, mobile, robotics, online learning, gaming and streaming media.
He has six patents, plays a few musical instruments and consumes a lot of coffee. He lives in Las Vegas with a couple dogs named Sally and Maggie, who are the official corporate mascots of Quadshot. Mike also sits on the board of a couple nonprofit organizations and believes in helping people.
For those who saw Mike’s presentation, this is the follow-on demo that will cover “Building a website with Elementor” using the Theme Builder and Popup Builder.
Mike Demo
Former MousePlanet MouseStation Podcast co-host, Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a lover of open source first, specific tools later. Before coming to BoldGrid as a community evangelist, Mike spent years building a strong client base in the financial and insurance industries. He believes in sharing his business acumen and marketing insight and has spoken on various open source topics including WordPress and Joomla! (where he was a board member) in addition to marketing related talks which include A/B testing content. Be sure to say hi to Mike on Twitter at @MPMike.
Mitko Kockovski
I aim for perfection and I’m eager to expand my knowledge and skill base, so I always look forward to new challenges. My love for WordPress and the need to stay up to date has driven me to attend WordPress Conferences all over Europe. I’ve also benefited from my connection to the small but growing WordPress community in Macedonia. I like to give back to the WordPress community by adding plugins and helping with core updates. Last year I founded webpigment.com where we specialize in WooCommerce themes and plugins.
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, and she’s a regular contributor to the GoDaddy blog.
She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people, and supporting Open Source projects. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.
Rob Marlbrough
Rob Marlbrough is Chief Developer at Press Wizards, a WordPress design and development agency. He a past sponsor and speaker at multiple WordCamp San Diego events, and has just recently moved to Las Vegas. He also owns WPSiteDr.com, a leading WordPress maintenance/security provider, and 5 Star Plugins, a leading WordPress plugin development company. He is the creator and Lead Admin of the WordPress Hosting group on Facebook (Member size: 12,500+), and a past Admin on the Advanced WordPress Group on Facebook (Member size: 32,300+).
Russell Aaron
Russell Aaron is a Full Stack Developer at the Plaza Hotel and Casino, Co-Organizer of the Las Vegas WordPress Meetup Group, Father of Two, and a full time Nascar enthusiast. Previously, Russell was a backend developer and customer support technician at WebDevStudios. Check out his audio blog over at russellenvy.com.
“First and foremost, I’m a fan of WordPress. I use t everyday. The hardest part of my day is figuring out new way to build something in WordPress.”
Twitter: enqueue_russ
Scott Miller
Scott is a computer consultant with over 25 years experience and owner of Geeks On The Go. From single computers to military networks and from Excel macros to Web applications for casinos, Scott has worked on them all.
He is a regular contributor to the greynoi.se podcast and has a GSEC certification from SANS Institute.
Shelby Sapusek
Whatness Websites & Words – Owner, Designer, Wordsmith
Shelby spent 17 years in the newspaper industry as a graphic designer for print. Then 10 years ago, she started her own WordPress website development business. She creates executive level website designs along with custom content strategies for small businesses. Along the way, she’s picked up some techniques to circumvent design and navigation issues while still providing unique customized solutions for clients.
Twitter: @ShelMKE
Sheridan Scott
Sheridan Scott is the Director of Customer Lifecycle Management for Bluehost web hosting, where she develops and maintains communications and marketing strategies for the Bluehost customer base. Spanning a career of over 15 years in publishing, communications, and marketing, she works and lives by the motto “Content is King,” and wields her red pen in the name of grammatical correctness.
Sheridan’s hobbies include arguing the importance of the Oxford comma to anyone who will listen, attending local poetry slams, and proofreading billboards while riding in cars.
Steve Pavlina
Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers in the world, with his work attracting more than 100 million visits to StevePavlina.com. He’s the author of Personal Development for Smart People, the founder of Conscious Growth Club, and a member of the Transformational Leadership Council. He has written more than 1300 articles, and they’re all uncopyrighted, so his work has been re-published and translated extensively. Before working in this field, he was a computer game developer for 10 years.
Steve is probably best known for doing unusual personal growth experiments and sharing what he learns for the benefit of others. Some previous experiments include doing polyphasic sleep for five and a half months, eating 100% raw foods for six months, water fasting for 40 days with daily video updates, and going to Disneyland for 30 days in a row.
Todd Huish
Todd got bitten by the WordPress bug after attending the inaugural Las Vegas WordCamp all the way back in 2009. After attending 6 more camps that year, he decided that programming for WordPress sites, full time, was the lifestyle he’d always wanted. After spending over 20 years in Las Vegas, he recently left for the damper climes of the Pacific Northwest and spends his time cursing the sunny days and learning how to deal with nature.
Todd is most comfortable staring at a terminal, making plugins and APIs do unnatural things, and trying to ignore the front end as much as possible. No one is more shocked than he is to find out how much marketing knowledge he collected after two decades of programming with PHP.
Tom Walsh
Tom has been a Certified Constant Contact Solution Provider since 2015. A marketing expert with 40 years of experience, he has helped small businesses and nonprofits achieve meaningful marketing results through Inbound Marketing practices centered around WordPress websites. In-depth knowledge of email marketing with Constant Contact offerings and an integration with WooCommerce helps to grow client’s businesses.