Speakers

Speakers

We are excited to announce the following speakers are confirmed for WordCamp Albuquerque 2020. Please refer to the schedule page for more details.

  • Acacia Carr

    Acacia is a full stack web developer, brand designer, and visual artist with a background in photography. Coding since 1998 and developing with WordPress since 2008, Acacia is an advocate for the Open Source movement and for diversity in tech. As a one woman boutique creative studio owner, she has worked with clients in education, …

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  • AJ Morris

    AJ Morris is the Product Innovation and Marketing Manager for iThemes, a WordPress plugin and training company that helps businesses, bloggers, and freelancers protect their investments in their sites. He has several side hustles where he works with site builders, freelancers and small business owners to build systems to help achieve their digital marketing goals …

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  • Brett Dunst

    Brett Dunst is Vice President of Corporate Communications at DreamHost. Having managed marketing, corporate communications, press/analyst relations, and more at DreamHost for over two decades, Brett is passionate about building teams that help brands put organizational core values at the center of their communications strategies. Brett is a regular contributor to Forbes' Communication Council and …

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  • Charles Garrison

    About Charles Charles started Albuquerque-based X10 Marketing Agency in January of 2019 with over two decades of programming, marketing, sales, and management experience. His vision was to give customers 10x more value than the agency's services cost and in just five months the company became profitable and Charles started hiring his dream team. X10 now …

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  • Danny Dickson

    Danny has worked with WordPress for over ten years including 6+ years professionally. He got his start as a moon lighter before moving on to work with WordPress for GoDaddy. Danny's proudest accomplishment so far has been helping to create and fill 3 new WordPress developer jobs in his hometown of Albuquerque.

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  • Fernando Álvarez

    Fernando is a Happiness Engineer at Automattic, the makers of WordPress.com and WooCommerce. He is a lover of books and films, and is a passionate Marketer. Fernando was born and raised in Mexico, and lived in Ireland in his early 20's. He currently live in Guadalajara, Mexico with his boyfriend and their two dogs. His …

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  • James Johnson

    James Johnson is Owner and CEO of Mindshare Labs, Inc. an award-winning, full service web and application development agency focused on responsive web design, mobile application development, branding, and Internet consulting. Our goal is to provide captivating interactive solutions that increase the brand recognition and effectiveness of your organization. James is a designer and developer …

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  • Jonathan Droege

    Currently consulting as a senior developer with RSI (www.ruralsourcing.com), Jonathan does both front end and full stack development for fortune 1000 clients. Although his day job doesn't often require knowledge of WordPress, he regularly uses WordPress for personal projects and side clients. He has experience building both custom themes and custom plugins. Jonathan loves being …

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  • Junchao Mei

    Junchao has been working for Noventum Custom Software for almost a year. Half of Junchao's work is WordPress-related DevOps, and the other half is programming tasks. Junchao will receive his MS in Computer Science and MBA in Management Information Systems in May, 2020.

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  • Karla Fisher

    Karla Fisher is CEO of Authentic Web Solutions, a digital marketing company that works with clients nationwide to deliver strategic website design and online marketing solutions. Karla is an experienced web designer, frontend web developer and digital marketer with a reputation for quality development, professional client relationships, and personal commitment to each of her client …

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  • Kitty Lusby

    Kitty Lusby is a long time blogger and marketing maven with a penchant for content and brand strategy. With experience in industries ranging from gambling to governments, high fashion to high explosives, her ability to create content in nearly any tone, style, and brand voice is one of her greatest assets. Her other great assets …

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  • Lindsay Halsey

    Based in Basalt, Colorado, Lindsay Halsey is a co-founder of Pathfinder SEO and partner of webShine, a search engine marketing agency. Her primary interest is search engine optimization for WordPress websites. Lindsay enjoys teaching site owners, freelancers, and agencies SEO processes that they can apply to their businesses. Lindsay has spoken at WordCamp Sacramento (2019), …

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  • Liz Brown

    Liz Brown is an award-winning senior User Experience and User Interface designer. She is experienced in all phases of the UX process including user research, usability testing, information architectures, wireframes, storytelling, visual and interaction design, UI accessibility, and hi-fi prototyping. She is no stranger to pitching the value of UX, teaching UX design, and leading …

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  • Mike Coleman

    Mike works at AWS as a developer advocate focusing on getting people started in the cloud as quickly and as easily as possible. In this role he focuses on creating and delivering technical content at all levels. Before joining AWS he worked at Docker, VMware, and Microsoft in various roles centered around product management and …

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  • Morgan O’Donnell

    Morgan O’Donnell spent over 15 years in higher education in marketing, recruiting, and online programs before leaving to help her partner grow her web development and digital marketing business. Morgan currently assists nonprofits and small businesses through KarMo Partners consulting. She has served as a volunteer community co-lead and coordinator for #GivingTuesdayNM, which is part …

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  • Noel Cothren

    Noel Cothren is a front end developer and website designer who is passionate about creating beautiful web experiences. Since attending Deep Dive Coding Bootcamp in early 2017, she has worked with some of New Mexico's top web & software agencies to help plan, design and develop websites and software user interfaces. Noel holds a BA …

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  • Pam Aungst

    Pam is a major SEO nerd, a huge fan of WordPress, and a Slayer-loving metalhead. She was named one of the "Top 10 Women in SEO for 2019.” Pam offers SEO consulting and training, as well as white-label services for agencies that want to provide high-quality SEO services to their clients. Pam has spoken at …

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  • Robert Jacobi

    About Robert With 20 years of experience as an open source executive (President Joomla), entrepreneur, and evangelist, Robert works with small to Fortune 500 companies as a Global Strategist and Solution Ambassador to increase revenue and market awareness. Robert is an international, well known, and respected speaker/contributor to open source, hosting, and infrastructure communities. He …

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  • Samantha Hare

    Samantha has used WordPress as a Social Communications student, and as a freelancer. She's also been a business owner who used WordPress for her business site. She's been a WordCamp co-organizer twice in South America, and a WordCamp volunteer twice in the US. Samantha hopes to inspire people (especially women) just getting started out in …

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  • Sonja Dewing

    Sonja Dewing is a local published author and social media guru. She uses her WordPress website to connect with her audience. Sonja has spoken at One Million Cups as well as at various writer's conferences.

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  • Tara King

    About Tara Tara King is a self-taught web developer, living in Albuquerque and working at Pantheon where she helps WordPress and Drupal developers find success and optimize their WebOps processes. She has also worked as a Senior Developer at Universal Music Group, at small digital agencies, and freelanced for countless arts organizations. She loves using …

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  • Tomas Mulder

    Tomas has been building websites since 2002, and WordPress websites since 2010. He has coded for major brands like Boppy, Frontier Airlines, and The Lumineers. Working as a freelancer under the company name Aquamarine, Tomas now specializes in custom WordPress theme development. Tomas has spoken at WordCamp Boise as well as at local Meetups.

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  • Vasken Hauri

    Vasken is currently the VP of Platforms and Systems at 10up, a leading provider of digital creative services for content creators. A strong believer in open source technologies, Vasken has spoken and hosted panels at numerous WordCamp, NERCOMP, and EDUCAUSE events, on subjects ranging from Green Computing to WordPress-based centralized authentication systems.

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