Speakers

Joe Casabona

Joe Casabona is a Front End Developer, Instructor, & Course Creator. When he’s not writing code, he’s teaching people how to build things with and for WordPress. He also hosts a weekly podcast called How I Built It, where he interviews product developers and business owners about how they create. You can find him at Casabona.org

Pam Aungst

Pam is the owner of Pam Ann Marketing and Stealth™ Search and Analytics. Both specialize in SEO, PPC, and Analytics. Through Stealth™, we work on a private-label basis through other agencies. Through Pam Ann Marketing, we work directly with well-established businesses and funded startups to take their search and analytics strategies to the next level. Pam regularly gives talks at WordCamps around the country about SEO and Google Analytics.

Tim McKenna

Tim McKenna is the Director of User Experience at Pennsylvania Interactive. Tim has been using WordPress for eight years in a variety of manners, from simple website to application platforms to company intranets. Tim is a past president of AIGA Central PA, a organization for design, and is a member of InVision’s Design Leadership Forum.

Guillaume Molter

Guillaume is a senior web and application developer at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where he manages 1900+ websites with WordPress Multisite. He has been using WordPress as his CMS of choice for the past 8 years and has contributed to several plugins. Guillaume has a special interest in Agile software development, code quality and DevOps practices.

Laura Byrne-Cristiano

Laura started her first WordPress site back in March 2006 when she and a friend and decided to start a website about a then little-known book called Twilight where fans could discuss the novel on a blog and forums. What started as a small site with maybe 30 visitors a week, rapidly grew into the most popular Twilight website on the Internet with millions of visitors each day from around the globe.

Laura was suddenly thrust into a media vortex that included set visits, a book deal, speaking engagements, and too many surreal experiences to count. This lead to Laura transitioning from a career in teaching to one in marketing as she hit the ground running with a whole new skill set including podcasting, video editing, SEO, social media management and content marketing.

Since then, she’s created/written for over twenty WordPress sites mostly in the areas of education and entertainment. Aside from her love of WordPress, Laura is also an Anglophile, avid traveler, theater lover, fantasy junkie, and occasional actor. She currently writes for Hypable.com and does freelance marketing and social media work.

Loren Robinson

Loren Robinson is the owner and CEO of Millennia Media, LLC. Millennia Media, LLC is a New Jersey based marketing agency, that helps businesses in the Lehigh Valley and beyond, stand out from their competitors and sell more goods and services. She developed her love for all things marketing in 2012 while attending DeSales University.

Loren has been:

1. Featured in Lehigh Valley Style, as one of the Women They Love;
2. Named one of the Top 25 Woman Owned Business in the Lehigh Valley;
3. Is a spokesperson for CodeCademy, an online code institution;
4. Constant Contact 2018 Kickoff speaker – “Video’s Place in Marketing;” and
5. Profiled in Lehigh Valley Business, as a minority business owner.

In addition to owning Millennia Media, LLC, Loren is a copyright and trademark attorney, licensed to practice in New York and New Jersey. She currently practices with a boutique firm in New York.

She’s a Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber member and the Secretary of its African American Business Leaders’ Council (AABLC) and Chairwoman of the AABLC’s Programming Committee.

She has a Bachelors in Biology and Finance, a JD and an MBA, from DeSales University.

Chris Berkley

I’m a Philly-based digital marketing consultant specializing in website analytics & SEO. My background is with marketing agencies, developing enterprise-level strategies & solutions for medium to large brands & companies. Now I bring that same level of strategy to small & medium businesses. I have several of my own websites, and many of my clients are hosted on WordPress.

Jonathan Ober

I am a husband, father, WordPress designer/developer, educator, and self-employed sole proprietor of 355 Media. I love video games in my free time and teaching my daughters how to be awesome at Smash Bros., Mario Kart, Splatoon, and other games.

Andy Stitt

Andy Stitt is a front-end developer and WordPress consultant who specializes in working with nonprofits. He currently works for the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia as their chief website developer and email marketing manager. When he’s not helping nonprofits make a difference by using technology, he is volunteering, running half-marathons, and otherwise causing trouble in Philadelphia.

Sal Ferrarello

Open Source veteran, Sal Ferrarello, has a list of accomplishments to rival any of the who’s who in WordPress including contributing repeatedly to WordPress Core, Genesis, and authoring the Bootstrap Genesis Theme. If you have time, check out his GitHub account at github.com/salcode.

Along with his volunteer work in the WordPress Community, Sal has spoken on a wide variety of topics including Gutenberg, introducing people to post meta, getting developers started with transients, as well as encouraging developers to blog.

When Sal isn’t wowing you with his magic or calculus skills, he can be found teaching web development teams the tools to improve their workflows. He also enjoys spending time with his family.

Say hi to Sal on Twitter at @salcode and check out his site salferrarello.com.

Paul Barthmaier

Paul is a full stack WordPress Developer with Paid Memberships Pro and Development Lead for Sidetrack Studio, with over 10 years experience developing custom plugins, themes and WordPress solutions.

Kerch McConlogue

Kerch McConlogue retired ADHD coach and front-end developer, has been writing code by hand for 19 years and using WordPress since version 1.5. Her passion is helping WordPress novices to understand the basic care and feeding of their own sites and to get past their fears of breaking the internet.

Matt Ryan

Matt has a WordPress agency offering custom website development building with the Genesis Framework and monthly website care plans. Originally from Baltimore, MD he now calls Downingtown, PA home.

He is back into development after a long hiatus having survived for a time as a network project manager and software channel manager. He has become a Phillies fan over the last 25 years but tends to favor the minor league teams in Reading and Lehigh Valley. He and his wife are empty nesters. You can find him at MattRyan.co or on Twitter at @matt ryan_co.

Eileen Violini

Eileen is the User Experience and Front End Design half of the design and development team at Sidetrack Studio. She was a co-organizer of WordCamp Philly, a frequent speaker on WordPress topics and enjoys solving real-life problems through smart design.