We are pleased to introduce the second group of speakers for WordCamp Baltimore! Check back soon for our next speaker announcement!
Adam Warner
Adam W. Warner discovered WordPress in 2005 and has been working within the community ever since. To feed his entrepreneurial spirit, he founded several WordPress-focused businesses that provide education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners.
He is a true WordPress Evangelist in spirit and personality, and that happens to have been his job title when joining SiteLock.com. Today, he’s the Open Source Community Manager there, continuing to bring his experience and knowledge of the web, business, and security to many other communities.
Adam is also passionate about his family, robots, and of course Life, the Universe and Everything.
Arthur Smith & June Chang
June Chang is a graphic designer and artist, and heads a one-person design studio specializing in branding, inbound marketing, web design, and old-fashioned drawing and painting. She creates fun brands for clients around the world, and also does marketing and graphic design for Econometrica In Bethesda, MD.
Arthur Smith is a writer, digital producer, and blogger based in Washington DC, working in education, arts and humanities, health care, and government content. He also does business development and video production for Vox Television in Watertown, MA.
Daniel Schiavone
The Baltimore Sun once described me as a “renaissance man.” That was flattering, but I do enjoy an intense curiosity and strive to grow daily in knowledge and experience. That’s led me to art, music, technology, and business. Curiosity gave me the opportunity to bind a book for Pope John Paul II, start a thriving art center, help revitalize a Baltimore neighborhood, and dive into programming.
Technology is the perfect field for the curious; always changing, looking ahead, solving problems, and creating solutions. I get to do all this as a partner at Snake Hill Web Agency in Baltimore where we design and build complex websites.
Eileen Violini
Eileen is the User Experience and Front End Design half of the design and development team at Sidetrack Studio. She was a previous co-organizer of WordCamp Philly, a frequent speaker on WordPress topics at WordCamp Lehigh Valley and WordCamp Lancaster and enjoys solving real-life problems through smart design.
Jason Schramm
Jason is a web developer in the Columbia, MD area who has been working with WordPress for years. He develops websites to help people make compassionate lifestyle changes at www.veggroups.org.
Julka Grodel
Julka Grodel is a Principal Software Engineer at Framebridge, a DC startup disrupting the custom framing market. She is happiest when she can get lost in the details and structure of a thing, making it for work her, making it work better, or cleaning it up to make it easier for others. By day, Julka channels this focus to empower Framebridge customers to frame everything they love and she enjoys seeing how creative and weird people get. When not toiling away for her corporate overlords she spends her time volunteering on literacy projects with the Junior League, in a Pilates studio, or doting over her blind cat Batman and his BFF Robin.
Kim White
I began building websites in 1998. Email lists like Chicago WebWomen and Philly WebWomen were where I met my teachers, mentors, employers, and friends. From when the question was as simple as “How do I make my text blink?” I have always valued community input.
After attending WordCamp NYC in ’09 I was in love with WordPress and its people. Since then WordCamps have not only been a source of education, they have been a place to meet people from all over the world and make connections long valued.
Michelle Coe
Michelle Coe has over 20 years of experience providing elegant design solutions for small to mid-size businesses. She founded BlueSkyPhoenix LLC in 2011. Michelle works with her clients to build brand strategies that create a professional, positive image for their target market, as well as identify and develop brand differentiators which help her clients stand apart from their competitors. In addition to a full range of design skills, Michelle has expertise in WordPress site design and development. As creative director and liaison between her clients and the engineers she works with, she translates the technical into the understandable. She also works extensively with her clients to develop and implement successful marketing strategies. With experience in business, brand & marketing strategy design, project management, event coordination, and instruction, Michelle easily relates and adapts to meet the individual needs of her clients, who hail from all over the United States, and as far away as Japan and China. Michelle currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Fauquier Chamber of Commerce and is the Co-chair of the new Fauquier Chamber Micro Enterprise Council.
Tessa Kriesel
Teaching and mentorship come naturally to dog-lover and Developer Outreach Manager at Pantheon, Tessa Kriesel. She wears many hats in her life — all with sass and finesse — including instructor for Girl Develop It, lead organizer for WordCamp Minneapolis, and founder of Outspoken Women and Coders of TMRW.
Tessa has spoken on many topics including helping beginners with workflow, mentorship, configuration management, and shedding light on continuous integration and deployment. She has also been a panelist on a wide range of topics at Conferences and Meetups.
When Tessa isn’t working on her development chops or mentoring junior developers, she is using her extroverted super hero skills to make people feel welcome and included at whatever event she attends.
Zac Gordon
Zac Gordon is a professional educator, with a current focus on JavaScript development with and alongside WordPress. Zac has years of experience teaching at high schools, colleges, bootcamps and online learning sites like Treehouse, Udemy and Frontend Masters. In addition to teaching, Zac also runs Web Hosting for Students, one of the world’s largest hosting companies dedicated to students and teachers. You can also catch his free weekly Office Yoga sessions on OfficeYoga.tv