WordCamp Miami Speakers: Round Six

Dr. Sherry Walling is a licensed clinical psychologist, the co-host of the ZenFounder podcast, and is the life force behind ZenFounder.com, a consultancy that helps entrepreneurs tend to their mental health.

Sherry has a PhD in clinical psychology, a couple of master’s degrees and has been a researcher and a tenure-track professor. And to round out her geek credentials, she’s been married to a serial entrepreneur for 18 years. Though not technically a WordPress geek, she loves hanging out with the WordPress community and sharing her unique combination of psychological expertise and years of experience in the startup trenches.

Her book, The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Keeping Your Sh*t Together came out in February 2018.

When she’s not in the consulting room or hopping conferences; Sherry can be found on her paddleboard, in the yoga studio, or doing her best not to break her own WordPress sites.

Hailing from the Great State of Wisconsin, Marc is the Operations Manager of ServerPress, LLC, a software company focused on workflow products and services pertaining to the WordPress Community. He has spoken, organized, and worked as a sponsor for several WordCamps over the past several years, and he believes strongly that the Community is what makes WordPress so powerful. He has spoken on topics ranging from Business, Marketing, Customer Service, Development, and Fitness as well as talking about WordCamps AT WordCamps.

Marc lives in Milwaukee with his wife, nine children, three cats, two dogs, his son’s snake, and a bunch of fish. In between times with the family and work, he enjoys his photography and working out. OK, that working out part isn’t true. Marc actually hates working out. He does it anyway.

Diana Espino is a Zend Certified PHP Engineer with 19 years experience in Full Stack development. She specializes in large-scale web apps, modern PHP & JavaScript frameworks, growing engineering teams, and creating great engineering culture. Recently, Diana was recognized by Google as a Passionate Woman in Technology and has co-organized 2 of the Top PHP Conferences in the States – SunshinePHP & WordCamp Miami.

Bobby has been involved in the WordPress space as a Developer for over 4 years. Prior to getting involved with WordPress he spent 13+ years in the United States Marines as Ground Electronics Technician.

Bobby currently works at Crossfield Digital as a Senior Web Engineer. At Crossfield Bobby has been tasked with building and grow a team focused on solving client problems with WordPress. Over the past 2+ years Bobby has spent a lot of his time building Javascript applications with WordPress. Bobby also runs a Youtube channel called Developwithwp, which has over 12k subscribers and almost 1 million views.

Prior too working at Crossfield Bobby worked at 10up, where he learned the art of pushing WordPress to new heights.

Matt is Head of Support and Community Outreach at GiveWP.com and WordImpress.com. He is the author of several popular free plugins and the Lead Admin of the Advanced WordPress Facebook group (which boasts over 30K+ members). He’s a popular blogger at his personal site (mattcromwell.com), wordimpress.com, givewp.com, and mediatemple.net.

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, festivals, Bob’s Burgers, fine tequila and a non-profit called Be the Match that helps save lives. Ask him why.

Pat Ramsey oversees all aspects of the technology group at Crowd Favorite as Director of Technology. He has worked with WordPress since 2004, using it as a publishing platform, marketing tool, and content management system in higher education, small-businesses, publishing, and enterprise businesses. Active in the Web and WordPress communities since 2005, Pat is one of the original organizers of the WordPress meetup in Austin, a tech community that has grown from a little over 200 members meeting once a month, to over 1700 members and three or four events a month. He’s also a core member of the web tech networking community, Refresh Austin and has been a trainer and advisor for Knowbility’s Accessible Internet Rallies and AccessU.

Karim Marucchi is the CEO of Crowd Favorite and Chairman of The VeloMedia Group. In the past 20 years, his career path has encompassed a variety of opportunities including founding startups, working for large web agencies and taking companies public. This wealth of experience in taking digital teams across the globe has provided Karim with the necessary foundation and institutional knowledge in leading Crowd Favorite into the growing multinational organization it has become today.