{"id":529,"date":"2017-08-20T12:00:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T16:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/?p=529"},"modified":"2017-08-26T10:34:52","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T14:34:52","slug":"meet-the-speakers-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/meet-the-speakers-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Speakers – Part 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

TIFFANY KUCHTA<\/h2>\n

\"\"Tiffany is the co-founder and lead developer at Quandarymat. She does some work in each part of the stack, but doesn\u2019t like the term full stack developer, preferring just \u201cdeveloper\u201d instead. (Ask her why; she loves talking about this.) She has been building web things since 1999 and WordPress since 2.0.1. Tiffany is passionate about erasing the gap between design and development, inclusion in tech, solving problems with code, building things out of other things, empathy always, and sassy t-shirts usually.<\/p>\n

Tiffany\u00a0will be presenting a talk on\u00a0Using Varnish Cache with WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

KIMBERLY NORRIS<\/h2>\n

\"\"Kimberly is the Website Developer at Carnegie Museum of Natural History where she crafts online experiences to meet the needs of a diverse audience. Her primary focuses over the last year have been website accessibility and user experience. She also teaches WordPress development to small business owners across the Pittsburgh area. Kimberly is equal parts tech geek and farm girl. She strives to connect people and technology in tangible ways, applying principles from her garden\u2013like sustainability and simplicity\u2013to develop the most fruitful online experience.<\/p>\n

Kimberly\u00a0will be presenting a talk on\u00a0Designing for Accessibility and Illiteracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

ALEXANDER D. RIDDLE<\/h2>\n

\"\"Alex Riddle is obsessed with inbound marketing and entrepreneurship. He taught himself to code when he was just 12 years old, and started building websites for clients before he could drive. At just 18, he founded Monarch Wave Marketing determined to overcome the biggest challenge with marketing today \u2013 users don\u2019t like being sold to.<\/p>\n

Alex will be presenting a talk on Local SEO: A Breakdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

KIM WHITE<\/h2>\n

\"\"While the www was just getting popular I learned to build websites to show off my growing family. In 1999 I made it my career and later returned to school to build up my skill set. I love WordPress and started the Lehigh Valley Meetup in 2014. Currently, I serve as a chapter leader for GDI Lehigh Valley.<\/p>\n

Kim\u00a0will be presenting a talk on\u00a0WordPress Hosting, What you Should Know<\/a>.<\/p>\n

STACY HARRISON<\/h2>\n

\"\"Stacy<\/span>\u00a0Harrison<\/span>\u00a0is currently a software developer, though formerly worked as an award-winning designer, marketing specialist, and copywriter for women entrepreneurs. This talk pulls from\u00a0Stacy<\/span>\u2018s freelance experience where she learned rapidly and intensely the best, cheap strategies for running a small business on WordPress.<\/p>\n

Stacy\u00a0will be presenting a talk on\u00a0Don’t Get Hacked! WordPress Security for Beginners<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MELINDA HELT<\/h2>\n

\"\"Melinda Helt is a Happiness Engineer for WooCommerce and has over seven years experience building WordPress sites and training WordPress users. She also helps organize WordPress Meetups and WordCamps in her hometown of Pittsburgh and is a member of the WordPress Community Training Team.<\/p>\n

Melinda\u00a0will be presenting a talk on\u00a0Getting Started with WordPress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TIFFANY KUCHTA Tiffany is the co-founder and lead developer at Quandarymat. She does some work in each part of the stack, but doesn\u2019t like the term full stack developer, preferring just \u201cdeveloper\u201d instead. (Ask her why; she loves talking about … Continue reading Meet the Speakers – Part 2<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7300942,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1128766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wcpgh-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8Begv-8x","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7300942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":718,"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529\/revisions\/718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pittsburgh.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}