ADAM W. 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.
Adam will be giving our keynote, WordPress as a Catalyst for Any Passion: My Story, Your Story.
Kim White
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.
Kim will be presenting Getting Started with WordPress.
PAT COSTA
Originally a native of Ohio, I graduated with an education degree from Bowling Green State University and moved to Virginia. I taught for a decade as a classroom educator and somewhere along the line picked up another degree in political science from Virginia Tech. As a teacher, I discovered WordPress as it is an easy platform to host my lessons. Using Yoast on my site allowed me to reach a much broader audience than just my students. I then began to teach myself basic coding skills and soon I was picking up clients and other teachers who wanted work done on their websites. I eventually applied and was accepted as a Support Engineer for Yoast.
At Yoast, I enjoy demystifying SEO and helping our customers resolve tricky technical support issues. In my off time, I watch Cleveland sports, participate in historical reenactments, and try to learn more about the people, cultures, and places that make up the world I live in.
Pat will be presenting Entry Level SEO with the Yoast Plugin.
JAIME EBERLEY
I am a 17 year veteran of the service provider industry. Starting in technical support with a local internet service provider, I moved on to pair Networks, Inc. in 2004. I have always had an interest in website security and in 2006 I began working with our Abuse Department. After many years I have progressed on to Security and Abuse Lead and oversee security vulnerabilities, customer account cleanups, malware injection identification, and account fraud and abuse.
Jaime will be presenting WordPress Best Practices for Maintaining a Secure Site.
TIFFANY BRIDGE
Tiffany has been building websites for over 20 years, teaching herself HTML from Webmonkey tutorials on Geocities, moving on through Blogger, Movable Type, WordPress, Drupal, WordPress again… Today she teaches small and medium-sized businesses how to get the most from their web presence, and larger businesses how to keep their digital assets organized and up-to-date.
Tiffany will be presenting Emergency First Aid for WordPress.
DANIEL SWAIN
Daniel is the founder of JDS WebDesign, a Digital Marketing Strategy Company that helps small to mid-size companies. JDS WebDesign builds, supports and markets WordPress websites. Daniel has been building websites for 16 + years, and working as a free lance designer for JDS WebDesign since August 2007.
In his spare time, Daniel loves hanging out with his family, playing a round of golf, listening to some jazz, writing blog material, and working on his podcast.
Daniel will be presenting How to Get Your 2nd Client.
BETHANY LANG
Bethany Lang has taken the long and winding road to project management and WordPress. After receiving her BFA in Theatre Management from The Theatre School at DePaul University, she began her career as a grant writer and fundraiser in Chicago for organizations like Steppenwolf Theatre Company and Chicago Children’s Museum. As the youngest person everywhere she worked, she was often called upon to do “the stuff with computers.”
In 2012, Bethany left fundraising to transition to join NeonCRM’s training and implementation team, helping nonprofit organizations get up and running with their new CRM. In her three years there, Bethany became the team’s first director, supervising its growth from two to five full-time staff, creating new training materials and seminars, and assisting hundreds of nonprofit organizations.
Bethany came to WordPress through her previous position as Project Manager and Web Developer at Cornershop Creative, where she managed a wide variety of nonprofit tech projects and built websites for progressive nonprofits. She loves WordPress because it’s flexible and has a tremendous open source community, but it’s still so easy to use for everyday editors.
When she’s actually away from her computer, Bethany enjoys exploring Pittsburgh’s booming craft beer scene, rooting for her beloved Pittsburgh Pirates, and hanging out with her two dogs, Mina and Pavel.
Bethany will be presenting How to PM WP.