Squeeee! We’ve got more incredibly talented WordPressers who are speaking at WordCamp Sacramento 2018 to introduce!
WordCamp Sacramento 2018 is happening at the Sacramento Convention Center on September 15-16, 2018 and today we’re sharing another group of speakers who will be leading sessions in the two mixed tracks of sessions.
Meet the second group of speakers below:
Lisa Anderson
Lisa has over 16 years of product management experience. Throughout her career she has specialized in driving product strategy and go-to-market implementation of new products. At Qualpay, as Director of Product Management, she leads the team in developing and driving a vertical market product strategy, focusing on e-commerce. At her previous positions, she was responsible for managing P&L, personnel, standards committees and regulations while also creating value-added payment gateway products, innovating product suites and executing plans at Voltage Security, Visa and Cybersource. Lisa has always subscribed to a hands-on approach that supports businesses and resellers by helping them understand payments and payments security from the ground up and which pitfalls to avoid.
Kathy Alice Brown
Kathy Alice Brown has been a SEO Consultant and Blogger for over 9 years with a focus on technical SEO. She has worked extensively with WordPress sites and teaches SEO on Udemy.
Ray Ortega
Hobbyist podcaster turned professional, Ray converted his love of producing podcasts into a full-time career. Ray produces podcasts for the American Society for Microbiology, overseeing daily production of the ASM network of podcasts. Ray also hosts his own shows, The Podcasters’ Studio and Podcasters’ Roundtable, podcasts dedicated to helping other people start, improve and profit from their own show. Ray has been in podcasting since 2006 and has been invited to speak at conferences such as New Media Expo, Podcast Movement, Government Video Expo, and various Podcamps. He’s also the founder of the Sacramento Podcasters Meetup group. Ray enjoys introducing new people to the podcasting community either as consumers or producers in an ongoing effort to grow this new medium. To that end, Ray is also a founding member of International Podcast Day. Ray’s YouTube channel currently has over 52 thousand subscribers and over 6 million views. He loves producing both high-quality, digital video and audio and sharing what he learns along the way.
Marla Todd
Marla Todd is a writer and artist based in Orangevale, CA. She lives with her husband, daughter, and assorted hilarious cats and dogs. Using the pen name “Juliette Kings” Marla writes the parenting/urban fantasy blog Vampire Maman: An interesting hybrid of family and societal observations from the perspective of a mother who also happens to be a vampire. That Vampire Maman, aka Juliette, is a highly innovative and insightful writer with a gift for creating a fantasy world within a “real” world context. (From monkeybellhop.com). Marla is a founding member of the publishing group WPaD (Writers, Poets, and Deviants), and has contributed numerous stories to their anthologies.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne McDaniel 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 Community and Agency Success Manager 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!
Nathan Ingram
Nathan Ingram is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar. He is also the creator of >ADVANCE Coaching, working with WordPress business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses. Nathan has been a freelance web developer since 1995, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the lead organizer of WordCamp Birmingham.
Michelle Schulp
Michelle Schulp is an independent graphic designer and frontend developer in Minneapolis. Prior to beginning her career, she studied Visual Communications, with minors in Psychology and Sociology. As her work progressed, she also branched into front-end development and user experience design to round our her skillset. This combination of disciplines led her to adopt a strategy-based approach to design, focused on solving tangible problems and achieving real goals based on how people think. She loves the open source community, and when she is not working on projects she speaks/volunteers/organizes at events and workshops around the country. Her passions are communication and empowerment, and she believes in the power of “Why?”
Justin Doyle
Justin Doyle is the Lead Designer at Tytanium Ideas Inc. He has about 13 years experience in web design. He worked for a high-end marketing company based out of Utah before starting his own company and then selling it to Tytanium Ideas in 2017. Now he spends his days applying his skills to large design projects that help scale businesses.