Today we’re thrilled to be announcing the third group of speakers for WordCamp Sacramento 2018 who will be leading sessions in our mixed tracks.
These awesomely talented WordPressers will be joining us September 15-16, 2018 for two days of WordPress learning, networking, food trucks, swag, and fun.
Meet the third group of speakers below:
Parisa Vassei
Parisa Vassei is a digital strategist and designer who helps clients and groups level up their online presence through user experience design, conversion strategy, analytics, and marketing automation all in the WordPress environment. Formerly the founder of Web Couture, her new Northern California-based company, Parisa Consulting, offers high level consulting and solutions for businesses hoping to enhance their digital footprints through smart quick launch WordPress websites, marketing funnels and automation, and e-learning environments. Nothing would make Parisa happier than if you asked her about her new favorite apps or her cat—not necessarily in that order.
Jake Goldman
Jake is the President & Founder of 10up, a digital agency that finely crafts websites and tools for content creators, leveraging open platforms like WordPress. Whether you’re a political junky glued to FiveThirtyEight, a car enthusiast reading MotorTrend, a Windows user who keeps up with Microsoft’s newsroom, an Apple fan reading 9to5mac daily, or if you just use WordPress itself, you’ve experienced a sample of 10up’s work. Jake grew 10up from a 1 man show (himself!) to over 140 employees with dozens of brand name clients in 7 years. Jake started focusing on WordPress in 2006, releasing free plug-ins, building websites with it, and contributing core code. He has been a writer and expert reviewer for Smashing Magazine, taught WordPress engineering at Boston University, and has spoken at conferences, universities, and programs around the country. He helped organize the first WordCamp Boston in 2010, founded Rhode Island’s WordPress meet up, and rebooted the Sacramento meet up as it continues to this day. He is a core contributor to WordPress, and maintains some highly rated plug-ins with over 500,000 active installations.
Sallie Goetsch
Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with ‘sketch’) has been online since 1985. She hand-coded her first HTML website in 1994. Since discovering WordPress in 2005, she hasn’t looked back. Sallie’s consultancy, WP Fangirl, places a strong emphasis on content strategy and building profitable websites that are a pleasure to use. Sallie has been organizer of the East Bay WordPress Meetup in Oakland, California, since 2009, and has presented there on topics ranging from podcasting to learning management systems to e-commerce to event management. She has also taught WordPress classes for Mediabistro, acted as Technical Reviewer for O’Reilly’s WordPress: The Missing Manual, and produced training videos for Peachpit Press. Sallie is a regular panelist on the WP-Tonic Roundtable and loves speaking at WordCamps.
Matt Cromwell
Matt Cromwell is Head of Support and Community Outreach at GiveWP.com and WordImpress.com. He is the author of several popular free plugins and the Lead Admin of the Advanced WordPress Facebook group (which boasts over 30K+ members). He is also a popular blogger.
Jamie Bergen
Jamie Bergen is a scientist turned developer who enjoys building things with WordPress. She works for a small agency building WordPress websites and custom plugins for non-profit organizations. In a previous life, she worked as a research scientist on next-generation targeted drug therapies. Her current interests include WordPress theme and plugin development, web accessibility, and workflow best practices. In her spare time, she enjoys hanging out with her husband, daughter, and dog. She also blogs occasionally.
Jason Cosper
Jason Cosper gets paid to nerd out over WordPress and make it fast. No, really. TBH, it’s pretty nice work if you can get it. He also spends a ton of time with his wife Sarah and chihuahua, Gomez. Jason’s passions include hanging out in musty record stores, drinking whiskey, smoking meats, and sampling craft beers.
Stacy Clements
Stacy Clements is the owner of Milepost 42, a technology partner for people who want to focus on their passion and not the “techie stuff” needed to support it. Prior to starting her business, she spent 23 years in the Air Force, the majority of that time in cyber operations. Dubbed “a fixer, a problem solver, and a pitbull”, she enjoys figuring out solutions, often using WordPress, to make people’s lives easier. In addition to building and caring for WordPress sites, she also enjoys educating people about basic cybersecurity practices to help keep the web safe.
Eric Debelak
Eric Debelak has been creating WordPress sites for over 10 years. He is currently a co-founder and senior developer at 11 Online, a full service digital agency in Albuquerque, NM. At 11 Online, Eric works with a variety of technology, including React.js, Python, Laravel, Android and of course WordPress. Eric also previously taught full-stack web development at Central New Mexico Community College’s STEMulus Center.