“After an IT career in large corporations, I founded Business Vitality LLC in 1999. Since then I’ve helped dozens of small businesses get better leads and more customers through web sites and Internet marketing. I also help my clients keep those customers and make more profit by improving how their companies operate. I finally jumped on the WordPress bandwagon in 2013. I live in Rochester NY and am a member of the Rochester and Buffalo WordPress Meetup groups.” Continue reading
Category Archives: Featured Speakers
Featured Speaker: Suzette Franck
Suzette Franck has been in web development for over twenty years; she started making hand-coded HTML websites on GeoCities with font tags and tables back in 1995. Since then, she has taught herself CSS, Sass, PHP, MySQL, and became a WordPress expert; evangelizing and presenting at over twenty-five WordCamps across the US and Canada. She began using WordPress in 2008, and has used it exclusively to create over 300 custom WordPress sites.
Suzette currently teaches HTML and CSS 101 with Girl Develop It in Southern California and she is also a freelance consultant that is available for hire to help you with content, design, and/or development of your WordPress web projects. Her web portfolio may be found at http://suzette.pro and her WordPress blog may be found at http://suzettefranck.com. Continue reading
Featured Speaker: Ben Martin
“Security Analyst and Remediation Lead at Sucuri Inc. I help clean and protect websites and spend my work day identifying & expunging malware to help make the Internet a safer place to be. I am passionate about infosec, online security/privacy issues and helping people learn cool things.” Continue reading
Featured Speaker: Aaron D. Campbell
Aaron has over fifteen years of web development experience. He has been a regular contributor to WordPress for the last eight years, and even co-lead the WordPress 3.6 release.
He’s committed to writing quality code that is both fast and scalable, and has a knack for translating ideas and goals into functional sites.
Aaron has worked with clients ranging from small local businesses to Google, Yahoo, Disney, and Harvard. He’s been called both a coffee snob and a beer snob, but considers both to be compliments.
When not buried in code, he enjoys spending time with his wife and son, attending or hosting beer tastings, and reading sci-fi/fantasy books. Continue reading
Featured Speaker: Seth Alling
Seth Alling is a Detroit-based developer turned designer turned developer, who has been working with WordPress since 2009.
Currently he works remotely as the Lead Developer for Ranch House Designs, a small agency located in Wharton, Texas, where he is primarily responsible for developing custom WordPress websites and plugins.
When he’s not developing (or designing), you can find him running, playing soccer or spending time with his wife and two sons. Continue reading
Featured Speaker: tracy apps
“Hi, my name is tracy (or some people call me tapps). I’m a graphic designer, front-end developer, photographer, drummer, crossfitter and a lifelong Milwaukean.
I started creating for the web in 1996, and started developing with WordPress before it was WordPress (my first blog was created with b2). I have been working independently for my own company, tracy apps design, for over 6 years now and I just love solving client puzzles of all sizes.
I’ve been doing custom WordPress sites for over 10 years and it has become my number one go-to tool for my client work. I’m a big fan of breaking things to see what cool things can come out of that. I also could probably deadlift you.” Continue reading
Featured Speaker: Jeremy Pound
Jeremy is the co-founder and CEO of Juicy Results, “the Internet marketing agency for the Fortune Five Million”. In the last decade Jeremy has helped craft and implement online marketing strategies for countless companies, ranging in size from the smallest of businesses to Fortune 100 companies. Today, he works closely with sales teams to generate ready-to-buy leads using an array of Internet marketing strategies.
He writes and speaks regularly on how businesses can best take advantage of the web on the Juicy Results blog and the author of The Bootstrapper’s Guide to SEO. Jeremy is currently in the middle of a 365 day commitment to release one marketing video per day as part of the Juicy Bits series. Continue reading