Rebekah Monson<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nRebekah Monson is a journalist, designer and dork. She’s the communications manager at the University of Miami School of Communication<\/a> and cofounder of whereby.us<\/a>, a creative organization that helps curious locals explore, celebrate and improve Miami through events, journalism and community protoyping. She cofounded Hacks\/Hackers Miami, a group that brings together journalists and technologists, and Code for Miami<\/a>, Florida’s first Code for America<\/a> civic hacking brigade. She loves people, dogs, coffee, Miami, stories and technology \u2014 so long as servers are up, traffic is decent and no one pees on the rug.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\nBrad Touesnard<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nDeveloper, host of the Apply Filters<\/a> podcast, and founder of Delicious Brains Inc., the company behind WP Migrate DB Pro.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\nSze Liu<\/h2>\n\n
\t<\/p>\nSze Liu is the CEO and Founder of 852 Creative Marketing & Design<\/a>. Originally from Hong Kong, Sze has always loved branding, marketing and technology and has been involved in the field throughout her career. She has managed online and offline marketing for start-ups and major corporations (Manpower, Inc. and Ryder System, Inc.). She also has experience in global business development, including projects based in China.<\/p>\nSze has lived in South Florida for more than 20 years and holds a B.S. in marketing and international business from Florida Atlantic University, as well as an MBA from University of Miami. As co-founder of Wiredin Women, she also helps support a community of women who wish to learn, share ideas and become successful in online business.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\nAdrian Cardenas<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nCuban born Adrian Cardenas spent 8 months in a refugee camp prior to arriving in the U.S. as a child. Though self-taught, he has partially earned his degree in Computer Science and Computational Math, which he strives to finish one day. He has been a PHP developer for 4 years and a Systems Administrator for several before that. He is currently making awesome things in both front & back end at ServerGrove, a local hosting company. Over the years, Adrian has developed several WordPress sites, both single and multi, many of them interfacing with other systems such as MediaWiki & custom solutions. At ServerGrove he has also been witness several hundred WordPress installations and some of the “gotchas” that developers can face.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\nChris Wiegman <\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nChris<\/a> is the developer of iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) and has been working on WordPress security for over 5 years. Previously a captain for a small airline, Chris\u2019 interest in security began on his first day as an employed pilot, 9\/11 and gradually evolved over the years to helping individuals and smaller organizations protect their websites from many of the common methods attackers use to compromise their victims. When not coding Chris loves to teach and has taught computer security for St. Edward\u2019s University as well as other courses ranging from computers to aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\nDavid Laietta<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nDavid is a WordPress theme and plugin developer, as well as community organizer. He leads the WordPress Orlando Meetup, as well as WordCamp Orlando.<\/p>\n
David is also a long-time supporter of WordCamp Miami, and among other areas, will be speaking at the WordCamp Miami beginner’s workshop on May 9th.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
\nBrian Messenlehner<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nBrian is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a web development company that specializes in building all things WordPress. He is also the co-founder of AppPresser.com<\/a>, a WordPress based framework for building iOS and Android Apps.<\/p>\nBrian started his career as a software developer for the U.S. Marines with a focus on building web applications and relational databases for the Marine Corps Logistics Command. After the Marines, and prior to WebDevStudios he worked at a law firm in New Jersey building custom web applications to identify and track insurance and healthcare fraud for clients such as Allstate and Encompass.<\/p>\n
Brian loves WordPress in his spare time! He is the co-author of the book ”Building Web Apps with WordPress\u201d by O\u2019Reilly Media, which is about leveraging WordPress as an Application Framework and he is the organizer of the New Jersey WordPress Meetup Group.<\/p>\n
Brian enjoys learning about new technology and believes open source software like WordPress is the key to successful cost effective web solutions in any situation.<\/p>\n
Follow Brian on Twitter at: @bmess<\/a>, @webdevstudios<\/a>, @apppresser<\/a>, and @bwawwp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\nNathan Hangen<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nNathan is a co-founder of Virtuous Giant<\/a>, where he serves as the business and development lead for IgnitionDeck, an eCommerce suite for WordPress. When he’s not shipping product, Nathan enjoys competing in triathlons, playing soccer, and coaching youth sports. In a past life, he served as a Psychological Operations Sergeant in the US Army, where he deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\nJackie Jimenez<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nJackie Jimenez is an ambitious and Innovative Marketing Consultant, focusing on the big picture with integrated marketing communications. She co-organizes the WordPress South Florida group and WordCamp Miami 2013, staying in-the-know and ahead of the game. Some clients that she\u2019s worked with are University of Central Florida, Marriott Vacation Club, and world-renowned hairstylist Peter Coppola. She often speaks about Social Media and Internet Marketing at conferences.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This is our last big round of speaker announcements. However, we do have announcements for BuddyCamp Miami, our beginner’s workshop, and have a few remaining speakers to announce once confirmed. Rebekah Monson Rebekah Monson is a journalist, designer and dork. She’s the communications manager at the University of Miami School of Communication and cofounder of … Continue reading Fifth Round of Speakers<\/span>
\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\nRebekah Monson is a journalist, designer and dork. She’s the communications manager at the University of Miami School of Communication<\/a> and cofounder of whereby.us<\/a>, a creative organization that helps curious locals explore, celebrate and improve Miami through events, journalism and community protoyping. She cofounded Hacks\/Hackers Miami, a group that brings together journalists and technologists, and Code for Miami<\/a>, Florida’s first Code for America<\/a> civic hacking brigade. She loves people, dogs, coffee, Miami, stories and technology \u2014 so long as servers are up, traffic is decent and no one pees on the rug.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Developer, host of the Apply Filters<\/a> podcast, and founder of Delicious Brains Inc., the company behind WP Migrate DB Pro.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Sze Liu is the CEO and Founder of 852 Creative Marketing & Design<\/a>. Originally from Hong Kong, Sze has always loved branding, marketing and technology and has been involved in the field throughout her career. She has managed online and offline marketing for start-ups and major corporations (Manpower, Inc. and Ryder System, Inc.). She also has experience in global business development, including projects based in China.<\/p>\n Sze has lived in South Florida for more than 20 years and holds a B.S. in marketing and international business from Florida Atlantic University, as well as an MBA from University of Miami. As co-founder of Wiredin Women, she also helps support a community of women who wish to learn, share ideas and become successful in online business.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Cuban born Adrian Cardenas spent 8 months in a refugee camp prior to arriving in the U.S. as a child. Though self-taught, he has partially earned his degree in Computer Science and Computational Math, which he strives to finish one day. He has been a PHP developer for 4 years and a Systems Administrator for several before that. He is currently making awesome things in both front & back end at ServerGrove, a local hosting company. Over the years, Adrian has developed several WordPress sites, both single and multi, many of them interfacing with other systems such as MediaWiki & custom solutions. At ServerGrove he has also been witness several hundred WordPress installations and some of the “gotchas” that developers can face.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Chris<\/a> is the developer of iThemes Security (formerly Better WP Security) and has been working on WordPress security for over 5 years. Previously a captain for a small airline, Chris\u2019 interest in security began on his first day as an employed pilot, 9\/11 and gradually evolved over the years to helping individuals and smaller organizations protect their websites from many of the common methods attackers use to compromise their victims. When not coding Chris loves to teach and has taught computer security for St. Edward\u2019s University as well as other courses ranging from computers to aviation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n David is a WordPress theme and plugin developer, as well as community organizer. He leads the WordPress Orlando Meetup, as well as WordCamp Orlando.<\/p>\n David is also a long-time supporter of WordCamp Miami, and among other areas, will be speaking at the WordCamp Miami beginner’s workshop on May 9th.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Brian is the co-founder of WebDevStudios.com<\/a>, a web development company that specializes in building all things WordPress. He is also the co-founder of AppPresser.com<\/a>, a WordPress based framework for building iOS and Android Apps.<\/p>\n Brian started his career as a software developer for the U.S. Marines with a focus on building web applications and relational databases for the Marine Corps Logistics Command. After the Marines, and prior to WebDevStudios he worked at a law firm in New Jersey building custom web applications to identify and track insurance and healthcare fraud for clients such as Allstate and Encompass.<\/p>\n Brian loves WordPress in his spare time! He is the co-author of the book ”Building Web Apps with WordPress\u201d by O\u2019Reilly Media, which is about leveraging WordPress as an Application Framework and he is the organizer of the New Jersey WordPress Meetup Group.<\/p>\n Brian enjoys learning about new technology and believes open source software like WordPress is the key to successful cost effective web solutions in any situation.<\/p>\n Follow Brian on Twitter at: @bmess<\/a>, @webdevstudios<\/a>, @apppresser<\/a>, and @bwawwp<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Nathan is a co-founder of Virtuous Giant<\/a>, where he serves as the business and development lead for IgnitionDeck, an eCommerce suite for WordPress. When he’s not shipping product, Nathan enjoys competing in triathlons, playing soccer, and coaching youth sports. In a past life, he served as a Psychological Operations Sergeant in the US Army, where he deployed to Afghanistan as part of Operation Enduring Freedom.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Jackie Jimenez is an ambitious and Innovative Marketing Consultant, focusing on the big picture with integrated marketing communications. She co-organizes the WordPress South Florida group and WordCamp Miami 2013, staying in-the-know and ahead of the game. Some clients that she\u2019s worked with are University of Central Florida, Marriott Vacation Club, and world-renowned hairstylist Peter Coppola. She often speaks about Social Media and Internet Marketing at conferences.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is our last big round of speaker announcements. However, we do have announcements for BuddyCamp Miami, our beginner’s workshop, and have a few remaining speakers to announce once confirmed. Rebekah Monson Rebekah Monson is a journalist, designer and dork. She’s the communications manager at the University of Miami School of Communication and cofounder of … Continue reading Fifth Round of Speakers<\/span> Brad Touesnard<\/h2>\n
Sze Liu<\/h2>\n
Adrian Cardenas<\/h2>\n
Chris Wiegman <\/h2>\n
David Laietta<\/h2>\n
Brian Messenlehner<\/h2>\n
Nathan Hangen<\/h2>\n
Jackie Jimenez<\/h2>\n