Adam Warner
Session Speaker
Adam W. Warner first discovered WordPress in 2005 and has since founded several WordPress-focused businesses that provide education, plugins and consulting services for online business owners. In 2016 he brought his passion for WordPress to SiteLock as a Product Evangelist. Adam has since delivered his zeal for WordPress by speaking at several WordCamps and other events. In addition to WordPress, Adam is passionate about his family, robots and of course, life, the universe, and everything.
Andrew Taylor
Lightning Talk Speaker
Andrew currently works for Pantheon providing consulting for their agency partners and giving back to the WordPress community.
As a former web developer, Andrew spent his time on large scale projects for clients such as AMC Networks, Frito Lay, National Van Lines and more. With over 8 years of web development experience, specializing in WordPress, he is a seasoned veteran.
Benjamin Turner
Session Speaker
I’m a self-taught WordPress developer whose love of Linux and the command line means I get thrown many of the hard-to-solve infrastructure problems as well as the large scale data migration tasks. When I’ve had enough of staring at the computer screen, I can be found with my family or in the garden, enjoying the all too short PDX summers.
Bob Dunn
Session Speaker
Bob Dunn, known as BobWP on the web, has been blogging for 10 years, seven of them at bobwp.com. He is also hosts 3 podcasts, including the WP eCommerce show.
Over the past seven years, Bob has taught WordPress to thousands of users via online coaching and training, webinars, online courses and in-person workshops. He spent many of those years designing WordPress blogs and websites.
Bob lives in Ocean Shores, WA with his wife and business partner Judy and their rescue cat Chester. Contrary to popular belief, when he is playing on the beach, he is not always making money.
David Zulaica
Birds of a Feather: Accessibility Featured Expert
David Zulaica is a Software Engineer at FocusVision, provider of qualitative and quantitative research tools. He has a strong passion for front-end development, primarily CSS and accessibility, and has taught a course on both topics at Hack University in Portland, OR.
When not working, you can find him hacking away on art-based web projects, writing music, or playing games. On those rare occasions he’s away from a computing device, you can find him bowling with his team or at his favorite card shop playing Magic: the Gathering.
Devra Polack
Birds of a Feather Discussion: Business Development Featured Expert
Devra Polack is the CEO and founder of Spinster Design, Inc., a Portland-based, women-owned creative digital services agency in its 15th year. Devra specializes in WordPress development and tech consulting for small niche businesses and nonprofit agencies.
Doug Yuen
Session Speaker
Doug is the founder of EfficientWP, specializing in a WordPress design in a day service. He believes in building quality websites, and with the right approach, they don’t have to take a lot of time. He’s also spoken at a number of WordCamps and is an organizer for the Portland WordPress Meetup.
Drew Jaynes
Session Speaker
Drew has been heavily involved in the WordPress community since 2011, contributing to the core, documentation, and meta teams, writing plugins, and helping with support. He’s been a core developer since 2013 and served as the overall documentation lead until 2016. He’s contributed to every major WordPress release since v3.3.
Drew works remotely from Arvada, Colorado for Sandhills Development, the parent company for cool plugins like AffiliateWP, Easy Digital Downloads, and Restrict Content Pro.
Eric Mann
Lightning Talk Speaker
Birds of a Feather Discussions: Blogging & Content Featured Expert
Eric Mann is a seasoned web developer with experience in languages from JavaScript to Ruby to C#. He has been building websites of all shapes and sizes for the better part of a decade and continues to experiment with new technologies and techniques.
Eric is a Tekton working with Tozny (https://tozny.com) helping to engineer better, safer, more secure ways to identify yourself and control your information.
Ethan Clevenger
Lightning Talk Speaker
Ethan runs Sterner Stuff Design, a digital consultancy based in Eugene, OR. He works with businesses to develop custom, web-based solutions to their trickiest problems. He’s a firm believer in ensuring his work produces measurable returns for his clients.
Ethan has been working in WordPress for over four years, contributing to core, developing plugins, producing custom themes, and speaking at WordPress meetups and camps. He’s also quick to break out of WordPress and create a totally custom system when the situation calls for it.
Fellene Gaylord
Featured Speaker – Birds of a Feather Discussions
Fellene Gaylord runs Sirius Media, which builds smart websites for small businesses using WordPress in Portland, Oregon. Building on her background in graphic design and traditional html/css coding, she began using WordPress in 2010 and has never looked back. As Adjunct Professor, she teaches WordPress at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington, providing community college students a robust and current toolkit for web development careers. She is also the ‘Head Foo’ at CHIFOO – the Computer Human Interaction Forum of Oregon, which is a non-profit group provides an annual speaker series focused on how humans use computers
Jewel Mlnarik
Session Speaker
If someone would have told me I could start my startup on WordPress 7 years ago, I would have laughed. Then, I helped launch TravelOregon using WordPress and my attitude shifted. I since cofounded Workfrom, which sprouted out of a Startup Weekend. We had an early decision to make: stick with WordPress or build our own? Over the past 4 years, I’ve worked with several more startups — all leveraging WordPress in some unique and very common ways. I love cross-pollinating ideas and lessons across disparate communities.
Jocelyn Mozak
Session Speaker
Owner, Web Designer, Mom and WordCamp Speaker
Born and raised on the East Coast, Jocelyn attended Cornell University, graduating Cum Laude with a Bachelor’s degree. She continued on to Stanford University, where she obtained her Master’s in Electrical Engineering.
While her education in engineering certainly refined her technical and analytical skills, it is her passion for what she does that makes her an outstanding WordPress web designer. She is an expert in thinking outside the box and filtering out the key points amidst all the noise.
Jocelyn loves to joke: I am a CSS Goddess with a Magic Wand. Just send me your issue and “poof” it’s fixed!
In her ‘off time’ you can find her helping her sons with their homework, scouting, school field trips and all activities involving kids, animals and husband!
Jocelyn loves life, family, friends and running my business with her team!
Justin Foell
Session Speaker
In 2003 Justin started doing web development in Las Vegas, building the backend of several sites using home-grown PHP libraries.
After moving back to his home state of Minnesota in 2008, he attended WordCamp Minneapolis in 2010, and has been steeped in the WordPress world ever since. Justin helped reboot and co-organize WordCamp Minneapolis in 2013 after going dormant for a couple years. It has been going strong every year since.
Justin spends most of his free time as the director of Minnesota Brass Drum & Bugle Corps, a part-time, all-age, 100+ member musical group that is like a marching band on steroids.
Kimberly Gauthier
Session Speaker
I’m an obsessive dog mom, raw feeder, dog nutrition blogger, accountant, and co-host of the Women’s WordPress MeetUp in Seattle. I’ve started blogging in 2009 and my current blog, Keep the Tail Wagging®, is 5+ years old. I taught myself how to create and manage a successful blog and love sharing what I learn with others – my favorite topics are blog monetization, SEO for beginners, and how not to lose your mind when your site goes down. I’m a Housewives, Marvel Comics, Star Wars, and Star Trek lover who wants to work from home with her dogs and blog.
Mary Ann Aschenbrenner
Lightning Talk Speaker
I’m a native Oregonian, artist entrepreneur, community volunteer, and president of Waterlink Web. The company slogan, “connecting your customers with you”, means each site I build is original, designed to meet your business needs, and is fully accessible.
In 2012 I build my first website — for an apiary my husband and I own — and was hooked. That same year I entered a specialized computer program at Portland Community College. A year and one-half later I completed the program, earning a certificate in Website Development and Design.
In 2014 I launched Waterlink Web. I love the process of helping businesses, nonprofits, online educators, and other entrepreneurs succeed with custom websites built specifically for them. We are located in St. Johns, Portland’s northern neighborhood. The office is partly solar-powered and on a Gold Certified Backyard Habitat property.
I help organize the Portland WordPress MeetUp events. As part of the WordPress community I gladly share techniques for protecting your website from hackers, Search Engine Optimization, and more. I also volunteer on the board of the St. Johns Boosters and Friends of Pier park, whose websites I built and maintain.
Melissa Lim
Birds of a Feather Discussions: Educational Technology Featured Expert
I began my career in education as an elementary classroom teacher 20 years ago. Today, I work collaboratively with administrators, curriculum and instruction, teachers, students and other central departments to support professional learning and the integration of technology and curriculum, in both leadership and classroom settings across all Portland Public Schools.
Rachel Cherry
Session and Lightning Talk
Rachel Carden is a Senior Software Engineer for The Walt Disney Company with over ten years experience in back and front-end web development and digital design. Before Disney, she spent over nine years working in higher education and is the Founder/Director of WPCampus, a community and conferences focused on using WordPress in higher education. When she’s not using WordPress to help build the web, she enjoys promoting the importance of accessibility and working to encourage openness, collaboration, and professional development as a conference and meetup organizer. Rachel lives in Pasadena, California but you can find her on Twitter, GitHub, and bamadesigner.com.
Shawn Hooper
Session Speaker
Shawn Hooper is the Director of IT at Actionable.co where he builds tools to integrate the many systems used in a distributed company.
Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Shawn has been building web applications since the late 90s, with a focus on WordPress since 2011. He is a core contributor to the WordPress open source project, and has spoken at WordPress events in Canada, the United States and Australia. Shawn is also the co-organizer of WordCamp Ottawa.
Steven Quinn
Lightning Talk Speaker
Steven helped found Figoli Quinn & Associates, a branding / design / web agency in Eugene, Oregon. He’s a jack of all trades when it comes to web development, graphic design, and 3D modeling and rendering. When he’s not at work, you can find him using the 3d printer or playing a variety of musical instruments.
Tanner Moushey
Session Speaker
Tanner is a web developer and entrepreneur located in the small town of Granite Falls, Wa. He’s passionate about using technology to promote community. When he’s not tracking down new leads or coding, he loves playing music and spending time with his wife and 4 (soon to be 5) kids.