Get To Know Tirzah M. Johnson
Tirzah M. Johnson is a Sacramento based web designer and developer with a passion for both creative processes. Development allows her to use logic and analysis to determine the most efficient way to build a website. Design, in contrast, allows her the freedom to be creative and shake things up a bit. Often people believe you must choose one, but Tirzah believes websites should be equal in beauty and function.
She has been fortunate to have awesome mentors, teachers, and creatives to guide her as she grew into this craft. Raised to always pay-it-forward, she plans to use her experiences to create a non-profit program to teach youth in low-income areas to design and code websites for scholarships funds. Until then, you will find her volunteering as a mentor, researching posts for her upcoming blog, or drowning her brain in web design resources.
We’re thrilled Tirzah will be speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2016 on Creating An Active Project Management Process!
Speaker Q&A With Tirzah
To help you learn even more about Tirzah, we asked her to answer a few questions for us, some WordPress-related, and some others we think you’ll appreciate 🙂 Be sure to give her a shout out on Twitter and don’t forget to use our hashtag #wcsac.
What inspired you to give this talk at WordCamp?
Project Management is probably the one thing I get asked about the most so I know it is a pain point for many people in the industry.
How did you discover WordPress?
I was introduced to WordPress while attending the Art Institute of California–Sacramento. Funny story–the day after I installed WordPress for the first time, I started an internship at a small web firm that primarily used it. I was thrown head first into the world of plugins, theme development, and custom fields.
How has WordPress Or WordCamp impacted you?
WordPress has given me a community and codex where it is safe to fail forward. There isn’t a right or wrong way of doing things and there is always room for improvement which means job security!
How do you primarily work with WordPress?
As of now I primarily use WordPress for my freelance clients I do the Front-End development and I have a partner who does the design.
What does the WordCamp theme Discovery mean to you?
Discovery is the most important part of the planning process it is where you dig into research and explore all your options before settling on the best possible course of action for development. Do you need a plugin or do you build from scratch? You have to discover the needs you are trying to fill to find the best solution.
What is the latest book you read?
Sprint: How to solve big problems and test new ideas in just five days. by Jake Knapp.
What is your favorite restaurant? Favorite menu item?
Tequila Museo Mayahuel, Pazole Verde.
What TV series are you current binging on/into?
Pretty Little Liars.
What do you do for fun?
When I am not doing WordPress you can usually find me volunteering as a mentor or somewhere with my nose burried in a book.