I build brands, processes, and programs that deliver results. I’m a firm believer in people, truly constructive feedback, and the value of tangible results. If something’s efficient, effective, and sensible, I like it. In the few years that I’ve directed the revenue-focused marketing and analytics at FIU Business, we’ve grown annual revenues over $11,000,000 (yes, that’s per year) during a time when education revenues are shrinking. I lead two teams — a marketing/analytics team (5 people) and an academic/training team (40+ people) and we work together to build our individual and collective brands. Connect with me on LinkedIn; follow me on Twitter (@SensibleFolk); and catch my weekly #MarketingMinute videos on YouTube (and be sure to subscribe while you’re there).
Kim White
Kim White has been a web developer for over twenty years building websites and web-based applications. She has been using WordPress since 2008 and is the Co-organizer of the Lehigh Valley Meetup and Lehigh Valley WordCamp. She has been part of the organizing team of WCUS for the last 3 years.
Recently, Kim joined the support team at Paid Memberships Pro.
TW: @MrsCRW
IG: @MrsCRW
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kimwhite/
Brian Messenlehner
Brian is a former software developer for the United States Marine Corps, the Co-founder of AppPresser.com, a WordPress based framework for building iOS and Android Apps, and the Co-founder of SchoolPresser.com, a company that specializes in building open source solutions for schools. Brian is also the Co-Author of “Building Web Apps with WordPress”, a book published by O’Reilly Media about WordPress as an Application Framework.
Tweets by bmess
https://www.instagram.com/messenlehner/
https://www.facebook.com/bmess
https://www.linkedin.com/in/messenlehner/
Tara Claeys
Tara Claeys began her career in advertising and marketing in the early 1990’s. After her first child was born, she supplemented her full-time job as Mom with illustration and stationery design for clients around the world. Her extensive marketing background and understanding of business quickly became her focus. Founded in 2010, Tara’s agency, Design TLC, specializes in websites and digital marketing for small schools, enrichment programs, camps and education-focused nonprofits.
She’s given presentations on essential tools for productivity (her passion) as well as sharing examples of websites she has built with WordPress and panel discussions on freelance work. Tara as a WordPress DC organizer and enjoys traveling to WordCamp conferences. Along with Liam Dempsey, Tara uncovers the stories of people in the WordPress community in their podcast Hallway Chats.
When Tara isn’t redesigning websites, she can be found volunteering for a nonprofit, running, challenging you to get out of your comfort zone, or vacationing with her family.
TW: TaraClaeys
FB: designtlc
LI: taraclaeys
Donata Kalnenaite
Donata is the President of Termageddon and the engineer behind the policy questions and text. She is a licensed attorney and a certified information privacy professional. She often volunteers at the Illinois State Bar Association holding courses on the General Data Protection Regulation where she teaches other attorneys on the importance of privacy and what Privacy Policies should contain. Donata is the newsletter editor for the American Bar Association’s ePrivacy Committee and the Chair of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Chicago Chapter.
https://termageddon.com/
TW: @termageddon
IG: @termageddon
https://www.facebook.com/termageddon/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/donata-kalnenaite/
Cal Evans
Many moons ago, at the tender age of 14, Cal touched his first computer. (We’re using the term “computer” loosely here, it was a TRS-80 Model 1) Since then his life has never been the same. He graduated from TRS-80s to Commodores and eventually to IBM PCs.For the past 15 years Cal has worked with PHP and MySQL on Linux, OSX, and Windows. He has built a variety of projects ranging in size from simple web pages to multi-million dollar web applications.
When not banging his head on his monitor, attempting a blood sacrifice to get a particular piece of code working, he enjoys building and managing development teams using his widely imitated but never patented management style of “management by wandering around”.
These days, when not working with PHP, Cal can be found working on a variety of projects like Day Camp 4 Developers. He gives motivational talks to developers around the world. If you happen to meet him at a conference, don’t be afraid to buy him a shot of Rum.
Cal is based in West Palm Beach, FL – US where he is happily married to wife 1.36, the lovely and talented Kathy. Together they have 2 wonderful kids who were both smart enough not to pursue a job in IT.
TW: calevans
IG: cal_evans
https://linkedin.com/in/calevans
Daniel Olson
Dan is the Chief Operating Officer of DigitalCube, a company committed to supporting WordPress and its communities. He’s a web developer, AWS superfan, JAMstack advocate, and design thinking enthusiast.
https://danielolson.me/
TW: emaildano
Dave Ryan
Dave Ryan is an Interdisciplinary 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 Arizona, loves a good taco and will like every photo of your dog on Instagram.
https://daveryan.io
TW: 0aveRyan
IG: 0aveRyan
FB: not used
https://linkedin.com/in/davidbretryan
Marc Gratch
I am a WordPress Consultant, a lifelong student, a husband and father. I have been developing themes and plugins for WordPress since 2.8 (give or take a point release,) with a strong focus on simple, specific, niche functionality. Most everything I know about code comes from the WordPress community which is why I try to give back as much as I can. I love the WordPress community!
TW: mgratch
FB: marc.gratch
LI: mgratch
Pat Ramsey
Pat oversees all aspects of the technology group at Crowd Favorite as Director of Technology. He brings over 20 years experience in web development, including higher education, government, and enterprise digital implementations. Active in technology communities since the early 2000s, Pat is one of the founders of the Austin WordPress meetup, having worked with WordPress since 2004, integrating it into higher education IT and faculty publishing systems. He’s also been a trainer and advisor for Knowbility.org’s Accessible Internet Rallies and AccessU, advocating for greater accessible web design.
https://crowdfavorite.com
TW: pat_ramsey