It was only a few days ago that we brought you Part One of our speaker lineup, and we couldn’t be happier with it. Yet one round of speakers just won’t do. We have so many more speakers to announce. There’s going to be such incredible content at WordCamp US, you’re just not going to know what to do with yourself.
Welcome to Part Two
Sarah Pressler
I’ve been working with WordPress for the past 8 years, and directly in the field of Digital Project Management for the past 3 years. I’ve been working with the team at ServerPress.com for the past year, where I’m serving as Director of Steve, Marc, and Gregg. I get to manage fun, engaging, and exciting enterprise level WordPress builds over at PlainMade.com and CodeBrainMedia.com. I’ve also recently joined the team at WPDevelopersClub.com to assist with marketing and communications. I have been building communities and working online since the mid 90’s, and I live near Austin, TX.
Erica Varlese
Erica Varlese works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, on the Happiness Hiring team. When she’s not glued to her laptop, she likes to practice photography, fawn over her dog, and espouse the various wonders of New Jersey.
David Bisset
David is a full-time freelancer and WordPress developer living in South Florida (Miami/Ft. Lauderdale area). His work focuses on consulting businesses while building themes and plugins (and dabs in front-end development). Specializes in BuddyPress. David is also speaker at various conferences, helps run the local WordPress meetups, and is a conference organizer (has been involved with WordCamp Miami for over seven years). He is a father to twin 6yr. daughters and a 11yr. old daughter that already wants to be a coder. Oh yes… loves his wife too.
Luca Sartoni
Luca Sartoni is a media professional with more than a decade of technical and marketing expertise. Thanks to his extensive experience in business environments ranging from SMEs to large corporate projects, Luca helps companies scale up by implementing data-driven strategies. He does not believe in Santa Claus, magic spells and everything not backed by facts. Luca is a Growthketeer at Automattic.
Patrick Rauland
Patrick lives in Denver Colorado and loves yoga, minimalism, running, & board games. He’s an author, poly, and the Product Manager for #WooCommerce at Automattic.
Lisa Melegari
Lisa Melegari is a web content writer, social media manager, and all-around web nerd, currently working at We Do Web Content, Inc. Her work passions include ghostwriting eBooks, fixing minor WordPress issues on her clients’ sites, creating infographics and any projects where her odd creativity can be put to use. Outside of work, she organizes the WordPress Orlando meetups and WordCamp Orlando, as well as advises her home chapter of the Alpha Phi Omega co-ed service fraternity at her alma mater, the University of Central Florida. She lives in Deltona, FL with 11 cats and enjoys traveling, Japanese things, video games, and cooking.
Sara Cannon
Sara Cannon is Partner and Creative Director at Range. She loves design, typography, user experience, and art. Sara loves giving talks around the globe on web design, responsive design, web typography, and more. A seasoned designer, Sara has done work for clients such as Disney Publishing and Flickr. She loves open source, her pets, traveling, and WordPress.
Andrea Badgley
Andrea Badgley is a writer and Happiness Engineer with Automattic. She has been blogging on her Butterfly Mind site for four years, and her writing appears in Southern Women’s Review, on the Brevity blog, and on WordPress.com’s Daily Post. She grew up on the coast of Georgia and now lives with her husband and two children in the Appalachian mountains of Virginia. You can also follow her writing at Andrea Reads America, where she chronicles her literary tour of the US, and on Twitter @andreabadgley.
Ryan Duff
Ryan Duff has been working with WordPress since early 2004 and was the original author of the WordPress Contact Form plugin. As a long time community member, he enjoys exploring new ways to make use of WordPress. Making things simple for clients and pushing the envelope of what’s possible is at the core of that. Ryan is a developer by nature so he focuses primarily on back end architecture and less on design. He’s also an experienced linux sysadmin with a few years under his belt. Over the past couple of years he’s given various WordCamp talks highlighting these skills. He also runs the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania WordPress meetup group.
Sara Cope
Sara Cope is a project manager and developer with the U.S. federal government, operations guru at CSS-Tricks and co-founder & instructor for Girl Develop It Dayton. WordPress is her weapon of choice and digital gov is her passion. She is a lifelong midwesterner, working remote from Dayton, Ohio. When Sara isn’t immersed in all things web, she can be found playing tabletop games and supporting her local park system.
Tracy Rotton
Tracy Rotton is the Front-End Architect for RP3 Agency and is passionate about creating responsive web experiences for their clients. She is also a WordPress core contributor, speaker, and instructor at General Assembly in Washington, D.C. Away from her computer, Tracy is obsessed with skiing, football, and her two children.
Carl Alexander
Carl Alexander is a PHP developer that loves learning and teaching advanced technology topics. He publishes articles about them on his blog on a regular basis. It’s his way to help you with these hard-to-learn topics. Besides that, he’s been a WordPress Montréal organizer since 2010. He helps organize WordCamp Montréal and other WordPress events during the year. You can find him on Twitter and GitHub.
Please join us in congratulating our second round of speakers!
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