Tabby Chapman
Tabby is an Instructor at Golden West College, in Huntington Beach, Web Developer at the University of California in Irvine, and freelance developer on the side while balancing life as a mother of twin toddlers. She has worked with WordPress since WordPress was a n00b, developing both plugins and themes; Tabby is always chasing after the latest and greatest standards and best practices, sometimes even catching up.
Adam Rasheed
Adam Rasheed is a UI designer and front-end developer who runs a design consultancy at Creatix Online Marketing. For 5+ years, he’s directly helped small businesses reach their audiences online.
Jen Miller
Combining her journalism background with a passion for customer service and marketing, Jen Miller built NeedSomeoneToBlog.com, a blogging service focused on delivering highly-targeted, local search engine optimized blogging and page content.
As the business grew, Jen discovered areas that could further develop authority, garner trust, and build engagement for her clients online. Her agency NeedSomeoneTo.com combines these services for clients, sharing engaging messages of community and industry knowledge with their customers and followers. Jen also hosts a podcast, Be Seen Blogging, delivering website content tips in under 10 minutes and is co-host of Community Connections, a monthly show on the WP Watercooler network.
Jen Miller believes in the WordPress Community and founded WomenWhoWP.org, a nonprofit dedicated to encouraging women in their WordPress journey. She also founded a specialty Meetup in Orange County to realize that goal.
Serving as a volunteer blogger for WordCamp Los Angeles in 2016, Content Organizer in 2017 and as Content Organizer for WordCamp Orange County 2017, Jen is active in the local WordPress Community. She is a contributor on the WordPress Marketing Team.
Pete Parker
Former Army Ranger and Serial Entrepreneur. Pete has three successful startups, including an Army Ranger unit (2/75) where he was one of the originals.
Originally a software & hardware engineer, his career took a detour into sales, and then he wound up being an Entreprenuer with a successful Construction Electronics and CAD Design & Drafting startup.
After he sold his companies he worked for Tony Robbins and the Billionaire Chet Holmes doing business and life coaching for five years.
Pete now helps Entrepreneurs strategize how to Change their Games to grow their businesses and still have personal lives.
And Pete LOVES WordPress!
Leo Postovoit
Leo is an open source advocate, designer-developer and coffee geek. In the 11 years he’s used WordPress, his work has appeared in publications such as the San Francisco Chronicle, the Denver Post and Lowrider Magazine. He’s worked in marketing, education and the film industry, but finds that the most satisfying work is in journalism.
Leo studied anthropology at San Jose State University and was part of an archaeology excavation of an 18th-century sugar mill on the remote Caribbean island of Nevis. He uses anthropology every single day in his work as a designer-developer and consultant.
Priscilla Christian
Priscilla has been the Empress of Priscilla Christian Graphic Services since 1994. Her business has morphed from illustration, design, and pre-press graphic arts to a WordPress only shop since 2010.
She has volunteered and served as the Volunteer Organizer for the last three WordCamps in Orange County and is serving as the Volunteer Organizer this year for WordCamp Riverside.
This year is her first time participating in a session as a speaker. YIKES!
Vasken Hauri
Vasken joined 10up in February of 2013 with over 10 years of experience working in technology in both the public and private sectors.
Vasken enjoys creating natural, consistent user experiences that enhance and promote interactivity through simplicity. As a developer, one of Vasken’s strengths is his ability to communicate highly technical concepts in a clear, non-technical way in order to build understanding between various project stakeholders. This, along with significant experience across several technology sectors, has allowed him to engineer successful projects within organizations ranging from small, independent businesses to public universities to online publications with millions of unique visitors each month.
When he’s not testing cache performance or planning projects, Vasken enjoys spending time with his wife and ever-expanding menagerie of goats, chickens, donkeys, and others on their farm in Mariposa, California.
Joseph Abraham
Joseph founded Techie Design (https://techie.design) and Savage Cat Food. He is a member of Advanced WordPress, where he helps stream their monthly meeting. With 15 years building websites, he is the organizer for Web Design Critique, a San Diego meetup. In his spare time, he enjoys anime, comics, and surfing. He also enjoys making videos for YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCScZFaoyYClYcsxr3iSQySw).
Behzod Saidov
Behzod is a Senior WordPress Developer at Investor’s Business Daily (www.investors.com) – high traffic website that runs on WordPress. He previously worked at The Walt Disney Company as a Tech Lead where he maintained dozens of websites mostly built using WordPress.
He has been using WordPress since 2007, first as a blogger, then as a web developer.
Behzod lives in Los Angeles, California with his wife and 2 kids.
Joseph Dickson
Joseph Dickson started pushing pixels onto screens when 56k dial-up was fast and people still liked ska bands. He’s a fan of desktop Linux and a front end web developer at Pitzer College.
Mike Demo
Mike “Demo” Demopoulos is a longtime lover of Open Source Software. He currently works at BoldGrid (a WordPress Site Builder) as an Evangelist. He has spoken at numerous open source events around the world. Mike is also a contributor to Huffington Post as well as other publications. He also volunteers as Treasurer for Open Source Matters.
Christina Hills
Christina Hills, the creator of the Website Creation Workshop™, has been passionately teaching WordPress non-techie small business owners, authors, experts, coaches and consultants. She puts the fun into teaching technology and empowers business owners to be in full control of their marketing and online presence. She has been running her online WordPress training program to an international audience for the past 10 years, and is often seen at events as an expert speaker teaching on a variety of topics such as email marketing, membership sites, and ecommerce marketing, all with a focus on WordPress. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Christina Hills worked as a digital artist for the network promotions division of NBC-TV, and then as a senior technical director in the Feature Film Division at George Lucas’s Industrial Light & Magic with film credits for Star Wars, Jurassic Park, and ET the re-release. She now lives in San Diego, California with her husband and daughter.
Thomas Levy
Thomas Patrick Levy is co-founder and CTO of LifterLMS, he prefers tabs over spaces (even in Javascript files), and he definitely has more chest hair than you.
Joshua Knapp
Josh has worked with hosting providers for over 10 years. He loves working with new technology and staying up-to-date with latest security landscape.
Stephie Althouse
Dr. Stephie Althouse is a self-professed WordPress geek and a champion for your clients’ success. Dr. Stephie is a business consultant, coach and leadership and business trainer, specializing in business growth for technology and innovative companies.
When Dr. Stephie is not geeking out on business growth matters, she is camping with her husband, 9-year old boy and their two Italian greyhounds.
Jeremy Fremont
My name is Jeremy Fremont. I am blessed 31 year old living in the dynamic city of Downtown Los Angeles. I have a passion for helping others venture into the wonderful world of entrepreneurship by helping pass on my learnings, lessons, trials and tribulations that I have learned from the past decade of experience I have garnered by growing and developing my own 6+ figure web agency.
I am a serial entrepreneur by nature. I purchased my first vehicle at the age of 13 and now at the ripe age of 31 I have owned 28 different vehicles. All of my entrepreneurial endeavors now revolve around my experience of being immersed in the World Wide Web for the past 15 years. In addition to running my own agency I have found growth through collaboration to be one of the key components of my success which has lead me to partnering with two other Southern California digital marketing agencies where we team up on projects to offer a more well rounded array of services to better serve all of our clients.
I am one of the founding members of mastermind group called Hustle Smarter where a group digital marketers from around the United States meet up each Thursday morning for a 1 hour conference call to share tips, techniques, stories, processes and action items so that we can all boost one another up and grow our businesses together. My most recent endeavor is the creation of a local in-person networking event called 333 Speed Networking which takes place once per month in the Los Angeles area to bring together professionals to help them expand their network in a very quick and systematic fashion.
The greatest gift I feel I can pass onto the world is to help inspire others to be able to have the confidence, knowhow and direction so they also can successfully jump into the wonderful world of entrepreneurship.
Mikel Bruce
We’ve all done it. We’ve taken on a project to get the work and it turns out to be a crappy one, draining our time and resources. But how do you attract and close more of the good deals? Mikel Bruce, CEO of TinyFrog Technologies, shares proven marketing and sales tips on how to 1) attract the ideal projects for your business 2) identify the crappy projects and 3) close more deals.
Mikel has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience with 10 years in corporate marketing. TinyFrog Technologies, a San Diego-based WordPress web design/development & hosting agency, has grown has a diverse team of 20 members and has built over 1,100 websites since it was founded in 2003.
In addition, TinyFrog maintains over 500 WordPress sites for companies all over the world.
Amber Hewitt
Amber Hewitt is a graphic designer and front-end web developer at her company, Graphicgoo, where she has created websites for a wide variety of clients for over 15 years. With a strong background in design (graphic design degree from Pasadena’s Art Center College of Design), she has developed a passion for good imagery and typography in print and on the web.
Scot Conway
Scot Conway, Ph.D., J.D. is the author of The Ohana Way and more than a dozen other books. In addition to writing, speaking, and equipping leaders, his varied resume includes being an attorney at law, a real estate broker, and a martial arts master.
Ultimately, he just a guy who found a way to harness his ADHD and dyslexia as a tool rather than a handicap. He trained for decades in forms of conflict so he could master cooperation.
Gregg Franklin
Gregg has been involved with the internet in various aspects since the mid-90s where he was a founder and vital player in the development and growth of an independent ISP in Southern California. During his tenure, he oversaw the design and development of the company website and its incorporation of their online billing system, integrating automation and efficiency for an easy, time-saving customer experience.
Since then, he has been involved in web development and has been using WordPress exclusively for many of those years. He has developed major sites for some of Southern California’s best marketing companies.
Since he started developing in WordPress, he has become a very active member of the WordPress Community. Always anxious to give something back, Gregg takes part in many Southern California meetups every month, as a both a presenter and active audience participant. Helping people is what drives Gregg and he feels that The WordPress Community is the perfect place to do that.
He is now part of the ServerPress team and you can find him providing support for this amazing tool used to work with WordPress locally.
Gregg lives in Corona, California.
Jarrett Gucci
Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo NY as cashier and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager based out of Carson California with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots and Bed Bath and beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things in 2007 to pursue a hobby of website development as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It and since 2011 his company has serviced over 54,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it.
Chris Frazier
Robert Donnell
I am a co-founder of P5 Marketing and an MBA Marketer (Cal State San Bernardino) with proven expertise in creating innovative solutions that fuel our customer’s business growth.
We develop are our website solutions using WordPress. For the past year, all of our sites were creating using Beaver Builder for the speed of development and designs that make a difference.
Specialties: Creating integrated digital marketing solutions using inbound marketing technologies (SEO, influencer marketing, and social selling) leveraging marketing automation software to deliver qualified leads and bridge the gap between sales and marketing.
Bilingual, bicultural – fluent in English and Spanish. We have worked, on client assignments across the United States and Mexico, in Latin and South American, as well as Germany, France, and Canada.
Greg Taylor
Marketer, WordPress Developer, Passionate Content Creator, Hack Guitarist, Frequent WordCamp Speaker
Irene Donnell
Irene Donnell, from P5 Marketing, builds small businesses and agencies into rocket ships, donates WordPress sites for horse and dog rescues and helps raise awareness for the little ones and teens in orphanages in Baja, Mexico.