We are excited to announce our first group of speakers! Check back soon for our next speaker announcement and if you haven’t, get your ticket to WordCamp Baltimore!
Christie Chirinos
Christie Chirinos is one of the co-owners and the business development lead at Caldera Labs, a WordPress plugin company best known for its popular contact form plugin, Caldera Forms. Christie started making websites at the age of 14, and before joining Caldera Labs did everything from selling items on eBay to leading website re-launch projects for major nonprofit organizations – on WordPress, of course. Christie received her Master of Business Administration degree from Florida State University, and is currently based out of New York City.
Curtiss Grymala
Curtiss Grymala, the founder of Ten-321 Enterprises, is the Director of Web Technology at the University of Mary Washington. He is in charge of all custom development at UMW, has consulted with various divisions and departments at more than 20 colleges & universities, and builds websites for small business and non-profits across the United States.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne has been working in tech and open source sales since 2005.
He knew as soon as he started working with Java middleware developers he never wanted to work outside of open source ever again. Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress for the San Francisco Improv teams and projects. He fell in the love the community and then found a position at Pantheon at the end of 2013.
As a Developer Advocate he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland to MIT and Stanford.
Outside of tech he loves producing and performing improv theater, reading webcomics and singing karaoke!
Reach out at https://mcdwayne.com or on twitter @mcdwayne
Eve Land
Eve transitioned from a career in Electrical Engineering to IT. She’s designed WordPress websites, writes occasional code and loves Linux system administration and WordPress.
Eve is an AWS Certified Solutions Architect.
In fact, she loves WordPress and the AWS platform so much she built a company around them. She migrates and deploys WordPress sites on AWS.
Hope Tillman
After a career as a librarian and library director, I am now developing WordPress websites for nonprofit and for-profit organizations. I wrote a book about the Internet for librarians in 1993. Beginning with training librarians to use the tools of the Internet from its earliest days, I now find myself doing a lot of WordPress training.
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob is a full stack developer from Chicago, IL who loves WordPress and JavaScript. I build user-friendly and accessible websites, developing products from the ground up into functional websites and applications. When I’m not coding, you can find me playing tennis, biking around Chicago, bowling, or watching Star Trek The Next Generation.
Joey Blake
I am a Lead Developer at Knucklepuck and 10up alum. I love making solving problems with beautifully simple and efficient solutions.
I have built and maintained numerous enterprise level WordPress projects. For clients such as Adobe, Time Inc. ESPN and Chico’s clothing, amongst others.
Laura Byrne Cristiano
Laura started her first WordPress site back in March 2006 when she and a friend and decided to start a website about a then little-known book called Twilight where fans could discuss the novel on a blog and forums. What started as a small site with maybe 30 visitors a week, rapidly grew into the most popular Twilight website on the Internet with millions of visitors each day from around the globe.
Laura was suddenly thrust into a media vortex that included set visits, a book deal, speaking engagements, and too many surreal experiences to count. This lead to Laura transitioning from a career in teaching to one in marketing as she hit the ground running with a whole new skill set including podcasting, video editing, SEO, social media management and content marketing.
Since then, she’s created/written for over twenty WordPress sites mostly in the areas of education and entertainment. Aside from her love of WordPress, Laura is also an Anglophile, avid traveler, theater lover, fantasy junkie, and occasional actor. She currently writes for Hypable.com and does freelance marketing and social media work.
Neha G Goyal
I am a Full Stack Developer and Manager of Web Development of the American Enterprise Institute with more than eleven years of experience working for non profits, agencies, media and publishing companies.
My past business ventures include co-founding a website called Indian American Weddings to connect engaged couples with vendors, running a South Asian wedding planning blog called Marigold Events, and launching a subscription box business called Marigold Box.
Tim McKenna
Tim McKenna is the Director of User Experience at Pennsylvania Interactive, a subsidiary of NIC, the people behind eGov. Tim has been using WordPress for eight years and spoken at several WordCamps including Lancaster, PA, Baltimore, Philadelphia and the first WordCamp USA.