We’ve been working hard to get some great talent to present at Orange County WordCamp. The list is evolving daily now, so keep keep checking back in to see who we’ve added. If you’re interested in speaking at OC WordCamp, please fill out the contact form below and let us know why you’d be a great addition to OC WordCamp.
Video from our WordCamp on WordPress.tv
Our videos are starting to appear on WordPress.tv! The videos we were streaming from WordCamp OC are slowly trickling in on WordPress.tv. So, if you missed any talks (or the whole show like a few of our stellar volunteers), now you can see what else was going on.
And our thanks to Joe and Peter from Blaze Streaming (@blazeit) for doing such a great job with the video.
Connect with Video from our WordCamp on WordPress.tv
Austin Passy
Austin Passy is a freelance web designer and WordPress developer. Austin built a WP centric site “WPCult” and sold it this year, he’s also been known to build a few plugins. He was the Organizer of SoCal’s first WordCamp: WordCampLA 2009, and is getting ready to start planning for 2010.
Lucy Beer of Web Training Wheels is an online marketing professional of 8+ years. She has a background in constructing and executing online marketing campaigns for small business, entertainment and art clients.
These days she loves to teach small businesses and entrepreneurs how to develop their online marketing strategies. She has been using WordPress since around 2004 and has never looked back In addition to marketing consulting she provides WordPress training through one-on-one or small group sessions to help businesses build a solid online foundation for their marketing.
Jane is the user experience lead for WordPress, and has worked in the web industry for 10 years. She is often on the road, meeting WordPress users to incorporate their feedback into each new version. In between WordCamps, she tries to find time to restore her 1968 Austin-Healey Sprite. Jane is a former San Francisco resident. Her first computer was a Commodore Vic-20.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Speakers
We’ve been working hard to get some great talent to present at Orange County WordCamp. The list is evolving daily now, so keep keep checking back in to see who we’ve added. If you’re interested in speaking at OC WordCamp, please fill out the contact form below and let us know why you’d be a great addition to OC WordCamp.
Video from our WordCamp on WordPress.tv
Our videos are starting to appear on WordPress.tv! The videos we were streaming from WordCamp OC are slowly trickling in on WordPress.tv. So, if you missed any talks (or the whole show like a few of our stellar volunteers), now you can see what else was going on.
Watch Videos on WordPress.tv
And our thanks to Joe and Peter from Blaze Streaming (@blazeit) for doing such a great job with the video.
Connect with Video from our WordCamp on WordPress.tv
Austin Passy
Austin Passy is a freelance web designer and WordPress developer. Austin built a WP centric site “WPCult” and sold it this year, he’s also been known to build a few plugins. He was the Organizer of SoCal’s first WordCamp: WordCampLA 2009, and is getting ready to start planning for 2010.
Connect with Austin Passy • Blog • Twitter
Lucy Beer
Lucy Beer of Web Training Wheels is an online marketing professional of 8+ years. She has a background in constructing and executing online marketing campaigns for small business, entertainment and art clients.
These days she loves to teach small businesses and entrepreneurs how to develop their online marketing strategies. She has been using WordPress since around 2004 and has never looked back
In addition to marketing consulting she provides WordPress training through one-on-one or small group sessions to help businesses build a solid online foundation for their marketing.
Connect with Lucy Beer • Blog • Twitter
Jane Wells
Jane is the user experience lead for WordPress, and has worked in the web industry for 10 years. She is often on the road, meeting WordPress users to incorporate their feedback into each new version. In between WordCamps, she tries to find time to restore her 1968 Austin-Healey Sprite. Jane is a former San Francisco resident. Her first computer was a Commodore Vic-20.
Connect with Jane Wells • Blog • Twitter
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.
Connect with Drew Strojny • Blog • Twitter
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.
Connect with Jonathan Dingman • Blog • Twitter
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.
Connect with Steve Zehngut • Twitter
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.
Connect with Scott Elkin • Blog
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.
Connect with Pete Mall • Blog • Twitter
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
Connect with John Hawkins • Blog • Twitter
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.
Connect with Colin Loretz • Blog • Twitter
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.
Connect with Blair Williams • Blog • Twitter