Say hello to our second round of WordCamp Baltimore Speakers! More great folks that you won’t want to miss presentations from. 🙂
Mike Morucci
Math always came easy to me, so I lived a nice, comfortable life as an IT nerd and media product manager. Then midlife struck and something didn’t add up. Sure, numbers are cool, but creativity is unquantifiable. Instead of hitting the bars, I hit my keyboard: one page at a time. I’ve written jokes, blog posts, freelance articles, sketches, shorts, television scripts and a screenplay. I’ve also launched SmashCut Designs, a website design service for small businesses and creatives, with the help of my friend and fellow writer, Chris Mueller. When I’m not playing my guitar or building spreadsheets, I love to write jokes on Twitter where you can find me as @GCGeek.
Beth Soderberg
Beth Soderberg is an independent developer and digital communications strategist based out of Washington, DC. She focuses on building thoughtfully architected websites that enable her clients to optimize their online presence while being empowered in managing their content. She is obsessive about clean code, solid design execution, and implementation of cutting-edge front end technologies. In her spare time Beth volunteers as the community representative for the WordPress Training Team, is a co-organizer of WordCamp DC and the WordPress DC Meetup, and is a co-organizer of the annual DCFemTech Hack for Good in Washington, DC.
Ann MacKay
I am a retired long-term care RN and association manager who had had a career in aging services. I have served in multiple leadership roles during my career and as a volunteer. I was inducted into the Maryland Senior Hall of Fame in 2016 for my volunteer work. I discovered WordPress in 2008 after I retired. After starting a personal blog to share travel adventures with family and friends, I became the webmaster for the branch of AAUW in Warner Robins, GA, then set up the Georgia AAUW website on WordPress. I attended WordCamp in Atlanta in 2011 and loved it. Since moving back to Maryland in 2012, I started attending the website committee at the retirement community where I live. I suggested WordPress may help the timeliness of posting information since a web developer did the posting. The developer moved the site to WordPress in the Fall of 2014. I added all the content to the new WordPress site over several months. Now I am a co-webmaster of the CCIcharlestown.org site. I attended WordCamp Baltimore the past two years.
Joe Howard
Joe is the Head Buff at WP Buffs, where he tries to live life to the fullest while running a 24/7 maintenance company. He lives in beautiful Mt. Pleasant, Washington, DC and loves astronomy, scrabble and a good cup of bulletproof Earl Grey!
Davis Shaver
Worn many hats in the media industry, now serving as a senior engineer for Alley Interactive
Amar Trivedi
Prior to founding AmDee in 2009, Amar worked for non-profit, government and for-profit clients as software developer and architect. Amar started working with Internet way back in 1995. Even though Amar’s formal education is in civil and environmental engineering, he has always enjoyed coming up with technology solutions for real-life business challenges. He is always focused on creating a solution that best fits the client’s needs and budget. He firmly believes that market creates the optimal solution for any size of problem. When he is not coding, catching up on industry blogs, or reading about theoretical economics, you will find him playing tennis, attending meetups and Indian classical music concerts.
Joshua Wold
As a designer turned Product Owner, I’ve had the privilege of working across a range of WordPress website projects over the years. Currently I’m enjoying the opportunity to help define requirements for enterprise level WordPress site. This gives me the opportunity to have regular interaction with Content Producers, as well as amazing engineering teams. I apply my design background to many of the tickets I’m working on, sketching wireframes and creating prototypes to help bring the tickets to life for our clients.
Ethan Butler
Ethan Butler is a freelance WordPress developer and JavaScript hipster based in Durham, NC. He’s also an adjunct faculty member at the University of North Carolina’s School of Media and Journalism. When he’s not hacking, he loves nerding out about hip-hop, biking, and vegetarian cooking.
Eve Land
I’m an Electrical Engineer with a background in embedded hardware and software, primarily in the defense industry. I’ve done development, technical support, and product management. I began working with WordPress in 2008. In 2012 I transitioned into the field of IT. I’ve done web design, hosting support, server administration and currently, I work at Sucuri.
Andy Stratton
Andy is a freelance WordPress developer, founding principal of WordPress agency Sizeable Interactive, and founder of WordPress maintenance and support service WP Maintainer. When he’s not busy perfecting websites, Andy is often found exercising his dog, learning about fitness and training at the gym and enjoying animals, art, film, music and philosophy.
Russell Heimlich
Russell Heimlich has been wrangling the interwebz since the dawn of the century. By day he is the lead developer at Spirited Media, a local news operation for the next generation. By night he is a small human co-wrangler of two daughters with the help from his partner in crime, Kristina. True to his name, he is capable life saving choking maneuvers for the greater human good. Milkshakes make him smile.
Hope Tillman
Career as library director at Babson College in Massachusetts. In the early days of the Internet got an NSF grant to bring Babson on to the Internet. Created their first gopher and web site in the early 1990’s and was involved in the library community to help librarians learn to use the Internet and see the benefits of the web. Have created lots of websites over the years. Have used other platforms, such as Drupal, but in more recent years have found WordPress a successful, popular platform. Currently, I am the webmaster for four other groups—a non-profit genealogical society, an online literary review, a local club, and the CCI community website. Joined the Website Committee shortly after arriving at the community in Fall 2015. Because of my background, I was able to take on the backend tasks that had been done by our original web developer and so we were able to do updates and make changes rather than sending an email and waiting for the developer to find time for us. The site was tightly locked down but I was able to work with the developer and gain trust.