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, music festivals, fine tequila and a non-profit called Be the Match that helps save lives.
Jihana Barrett
“Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Jihana Barrett has pushed her career in intelligence and cybersecurity to the limits.
Beginning her career in the United States Air Force, Jihana was quickly promoted to Staff Sergeant. During this time, she pursued a career in tech. After obtaining her Associates degree, she later completed her Bachelors and Masters degrees in Cybersecurity and acquired both her Security+ and Certified Ethical Hacker certifications (CEH) at the University of Maryland University College.
Following her separation from the military, Jihana received her Masters degree in Cyber and Information Security from Capitol Technology University.
Currently, Jihana is a Senior Threat Vulnerability analyst at one of the country’s largest tele-communications corporations. After many years of education and research, Jihana has developed a passion for excellence within her field—and encouraging up and coming women in tech to pursue their dreams in the industry through her organization, Tech Sorority.”
Kimberly Lipari
Kimberly is the CEO of Valet, a WordPress Management and Development Agency. She’s spent the last few years growing a business that focuses on service as a key selling point. Kimberly will share her firsthand and hard won knowledge of how support can make or break your business.
Victor Ramirez
Victor Ramirez began his foray into the interwebs building websites and email newsletters for various high school art projects. He is currently a lead software engineer at Dow Jones building WordPress projects for the Wall Street Journal. On the side, he runs An Abstract Agency – a WordPress-focused marketing agency. In his free time, he teaches high school students to code & coaches professionals in New York City.
Charles Johnston
Charles is a self-proclaimed and well earned “digital ninja” on a mission to help entrepreneurs and nonprofit organizations change their communities. After spending the last few decades in the corporate IT industry he started a web design and digital marketing agency called HeartWired Digital Solutions, where they focus on putting compassion back into technology. His passion is helping nonprofits and small business owners share their stories on the web.
Matt Cromwell
Matt has served nonprofit organizations since early 2000’s as a web developer, educator, fundraising consultant, marketing consultant, board member and more. Currently, he is Partner and Head of Support and Outreach at Impress.org who’s mission is “”Code for Good””. Impress.org’s flagship product is the number one fundraising tool for WordPress websites: GiveWP.
Matt serves on the board of San Diego Refugee Tutoring, a volunteer driven organization dedicated to serving the rising refugee population of children in San Diego. He also serves on the board of Mid-City Church of the Nazarene who hosts bi-weekly food distributions, and houses dozens of other local NGOs in their facility in City Heights, San Diego.
Matt is a husband, father to four, and lover of all things musical and/or homebrewed. He also loves to talk about the most taboo of topics: Politics and Religion.
Luis Atencio
Luis Atencio (@luijar) is a Principal Cloud Engineer for Citrix Systems in Ft. Lauderdale, FL. He has a B.S. and an M.S. in Computer Science and now works full-time developing and architecting cloud web applications using JavaScript and Java. Luis is also very involved in the community and has presented on several occasions at conferences and local meet-ups. When he is not coding, Luis writes a developer blog at http://luisatencio.net focused on software engineering as well as several magazine articles for PHPArch and DZone. Luis is also the author of Functional Programming in JavaScript (Manning 2016), co-author for RxJS in Action (Manning 2017), and currently working on his third book The Joy Of JavaScript (Manning 2019).
Andrew Norcross
When i was 17, i threw a party at my parent’s house while they were out of town. it ~maybe~ got a little out of hand, given the numerous games of human cannonball through the screened in porch. I woke up the next morning to realize I had about 7 hours to learn how to re-screen all the panels we jumped through. i finished with 15 minutes to spare. i almost got away with it, until my father found all the bottle caps in the pool filter.
Anelle Valdes
Anelle Valdes is a freelance editor and content creator, specializing in website audits, blog posts, articles, and resumes. As a professional with a master’s degree in marketing and undergraduate degrees in biology and psychology, Anelle breaks down marketing concepts and gives them a psych twist. Her desire is to help people feel more connected, productive and happy. She feels, fulfillment in what we do, while having meaningful relationships is key. Anelle has experience in the marketing, healthcare, and recruiting industries.
https://av-freelance.com/
Nathan Ingram
Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.
As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan works with WordPress solopreneurs and business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses.
Nathan has been working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.
You can learn more about Nathan at https://nathaningram.com.