I am an award-winning graphic designer and website developer based in Fort Lauderdale, FL. In 2001, I founded Big Max’s Studio, a woman-owned design firm specializing in startups and small businesses, with their branding and marketing, websites and publications.

In 2016 I won the “American Graphic Design Award” for the logo design for my invitation company Patti & Hank, and in 2017 I again won the award for my website design for Italian winemaker Terralsole. In 2018 I won the award for the book cover “Think you can’t write? Think again!”

I am a Certified Digital Business Consultant, as well as a WordPress Care Plan Specialist. In 2010, I switch from HTML websites and began developing and designing all websites in WordPress. Many website designers choose to pick one field, I on the other hand like the challenge of all trades. Some of my website designs have included lawyers, accountants, independent book publishers, wineries, florists, and media companies.

I have written three books and am the primary blogger for Tropic Moon Media.

Joseph LoPreste is co-owner of St Pete Design, a web development company that specializes in web accessibility and custom WordPress software. He brings over 12 years of business and technology experience along with a passion for web accessibility and the knowledge to help. He also oversees all aspects of software development from design to launch.

He has 2 amazing daughters Mekenzie and Kennedie who have taught him what’s important in life. They bring balance to him and his life/work ratio. He brings the mindset that as a company we should cultivate creativity and individuality so that allows us to create solutions at the highest levels while still loving what we do.

“If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.”

“I get to wake up every day to a fresh set of challenges and the opportunity to solve these challenges with new and unique solutions.”

As CEO, Karim leads Crowd Favorite and has been actively engaged in the WordPress community for over a decade. His career has included a range of opportunities including founding startups, working for large web agencies, and taking companies public. This wealth of experience in leading digital teams across the globe has provided Karim with the vision to lead Crowd Favorite in helping Enterprise organizations transition to Open Source solutions.

Website Security Analyst with a passion for WordPress security. I have been working with WordPress for over a decade, now with a heavy focus on educating the community about the importance of proactive cybersecurity on open source applications.

I started in web hosting technical support, server administration, terms of service enforcement for a managed WordPress platform, and now as a technical writer and security analyst.

Wendy is passionate about what makes people tick, why they do what do….and how they become your loyal clientele. You have a service that helps business become stronger, so….you need the right systems in place to build the right community with the right communication.

Passions: Being Inspired, learning, harmonious living, Healthy Change, Healthy Marketing, Systemic Coaching, outdoorsy stuff, energy, and sound healing; WordPress enthusiast, Choreographing communication and yep, even social dances!

She teaches in FIU’s Master of Marketing program and is a 6-time award-winning professor for FIU’s PMBA Online.

@DrWendyGuess

#SassySage #HealthyChange

Heya! I’m Carl.

I’m a PHP developer from Montréal, Canada. I live and breath advanced programming topics (and memes). I share a lot of my passion for those topics on my website where I publish articles on a regular basis.

It’s my way to help you with these hard-to-learn topics. That’s also why I’m excited to speak at WordCamp Miami. It’s another way for me to help you.

Besides that, I’ve been a WordPress Montréal organizer since 2010. I also help organize other WordPress events during the year. You can find me on Twitter and GitHub.

Chloe has been with Wordfence for the past two years originally starting out as a customer service engineer and now as a security analyst. On a daily basis, she works with people that have had their WordPress sites compromised by restoring them and provides them with insight on what they can do to better secure their sites. With a few years of customer service and security experience under her belt she loves teaching what she has learned about security so the internet can be a safer place.

She holds several industry certifications like Security+, CySA+, SSCP, and CEH, and she is currently working towards her CHFI. When she’s not learning about security or raising security awareness she enjoys traveling the world finding fun and unique coffee shops, donuteries, and tasty restaurants.

Andrew (or Norcross, as most know him) is a Senior Engineer and Developer Advocate at Liquid Web, focusing on internal product development and being a voice inside the WP community itself.