Drew Strojny

Drew is an interface designer, theme architect, ex-football player, and entrepreneur. He is usually busy designing and building handcrafted WordPress themes at The Theme Foundry, enjoying the fantastic weather in Boise, or on the couch watching romantic comedies with a box of tissues.

Drew graduated from Duke University in 2003 with an A.B. in Philosophy. Upon graduation the New York Giants selected Drew with pick number 203 of the 2004 NFL draft. He went on to spend seasons with the Philadelphia Eagles, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, and the St. Louis Rams.

Drew is currently the head curator at Jestro LLC where he is building The Theme Foundry into a global superpower, working with clients from time to time, and boldly exploring new opportunities on the interwebs. Two of his themes, Vigilance and Titan, are featured on WordPress.com and have received accolades from likes of Mashable and Best WordPress Themes.

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Step right up! Get your tickets here…

I am thrilled to announce that all the late nights getting our ticketing system put together are finally paying off. If you go to the site today, you might notice a new sidebar widget and some new menu items under the attendees tab. You now have the opportunity to purchase one of our very limited number of tickets. You may not have heard, but we only have a total of 200 tickets we can sell due to the size of our venue including the ones we’ve already bought for ourselves.

Everyone – organizers, speakers, sponsors and attendees all have to buy a ticket to get in because it’s all about the head count. By my count of all of those people plus those people I’ve spoken to in-person, there’s a very good chance that we’ll sell out before the event.

Don’t wait until the last minute or you might get left out. Go get your tickets now!

P.S. I can’t speak enough about Jonathan, the lead developer from the Shopp WordPress Plugin (that’s what we’re using for our registration system). The new version of his plugin is going to be awesome. I’m trying to convince him to come speak at OC WordCamp, so if you sell anything online, go check out his site.

Please let us know of any issues you run into with your ticket purchase and we’ll do everything we can to help you resolve them.

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Jonathan Dingman

Jonathan Dingman is a free lance WordPress developer that passionately loves WordPress.  His experience with WordPress began in 2003 with the first release of WordPress.  Some of his latest endeavors include organizing the first WordCamp in New York City back in 2008.  Another is his involvement with WordPress Vibe, a blog devoted to the WordPress developer community.  You can find him cruising the streets of Los Angeles in his Infiniti G35, tagged with WRDPRSS as the license plate.

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Steve Zehngut

Steve founded Zeek Interactive in 1995. Despite dozens of dot–com hey–day offers to “partner up” for mountains of stock options, he remains the creative technologist behind the Huntington Beach–based company. With a degree in cinema and a background in graphic design, Steve has been a multimedia developer for more than fifteen years. Under his direction, Zeek Interactive has grown from an apartment bedroom to one of Southern California’s leading development and consulting shops.

Steve is recognized as a leading Web and Flash programmer. He has been a frequent panelist and speaker at industry trade shows, including the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) and the Macromedia International User Conference. He was also a former Macromedia Advisory Board Member, a member of Producer’s Guild and he sits on the Advisory Board at the Art Institute. In addition, Steve has participated as a mentor in the American Film Institute eTV Workshop.

Steve has taught interactive development courses at University of California Irvine, University of Southern California, American Film Institute, and California State University Long Beach.

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Scott Elkin

Scott Elkin is the Technical Director at McIntosh Marketing, and creating websites for over 10 years. Being a Microsoft Certified programmer, the only world he ever knew was Microsoft. When he discovered WordPress, he switched to developing almost all client sites using that platform, integrating with everything from membership sites, forums, shopping carts, split-testing and CRM’s.

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Pete Mall

Pete is a self-described WordPress ninja and has been contributing to WordPress since 2005. He provides WordPress consulting services through Joint Forces Technology Solutions (jointforcestech.com). Pete has worked with multiple Fortune 100 brands, as well as smaller companies. He is known for turning around troubled development projects and improving the productivity and dependability of the team. You can follow his rumblings on his personal blog at developersmind.com or catch him on Twitter @petemall.

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John Hawkins

John has been working in the web development field for more than a decade. He started his first blog back in 2003, moved to WordPress a short time later and hasn’t looked back. John has been active in all aspects of the WordPress Universe. He’s customized themes, released plugins to the WordPress repository, hosted WordCamp: Las Vegas, and presented at WordCamp events all over the United States. John currently creates custom WordPress solutions for his clients at 9seeds.com

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Colin Loretz

Colin is a developer, designer, entrepreneur and community builder. He develops custom solutions for Salesforce.com, WordPress and the iPhone platforms as the Chief Architect of Lively Labs. A supporter of tech culture, Colin also heads up Ignite Reno, organizes Reno-Tahoe WordCamp, and co-founded the Reno Collective coworking space for fellow entrepreneurs and freelancers.

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Blair Williams

Blair Williams has been working as a Software Engineer, Internet Marketer and New Media Consultant for over a decade. He specializes in leveraging and writing Software to automate Internet Marketing to drive explosive growth and sales in Businesses of all sizes. He’s an expert in WordPress, Ruby on Rails, Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) Marketing, Website Strategy and New Media.

Blair is the author of the Pretty Link plugin for WordPress. Pretty Link has been downloaded over 100,000 times and is one of the most popular plugins for WordPress. Blair has also released the Pretty Link Pro plugin for WordPress — providing a ton of useful features and premium support on top of Pretty Link.

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Brainstorming Session

I heard through the grape vine last week that a local group was considering organizing a WordCamp for Orange County. Imagine my surprise! I got in contact with William, one of the organizers, and we’ve been talking about how to work together to put on a successful event. The OCPHP group is having a meetup next week, and they’re going to have a planning session to discuss ideas for OC WordCamp. For all of you who want to pitch in some ideas, or just meet other like-minded people, I encourage you to show up and say hi. The brainstorming session will start at 6PM on Jan. 27. You can get more info and RSVP at the OCPHP Meetup page. I hope to see you all there, and look forward to hearing some exciting ideas.

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