Introducing Our WCSTL 2018 Speakers – Round 4

Posted on by Nile Flores

This is our last round of announcing speakers for WordCamp St. Louis. You don’t want to miss out as we’ve done our best to bring a variety of topics for our schedule. Don’t have a ticket? Get one here.

Our Speakers

Kip Raske

Kip works as a Web Developer at Washington University in St. Louis. He spends most of his time writing in PHP and JavaScript to build websites using WordPress.

As the web is constantly changing, he expects to keep learning new trends and technologies. Kip has worked quite extensively with public websites managed with Sharepoint, created quite a few forms, evaluate products and source code, and built applications with emerging technologies such as node.js and html5 canvas.

Where Kip is from: St. Louis, Missouri

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Michele Butcher-Jones

Michele is a WordPress Technical Specialist at Thrive Internet Marketing Agency and runs her own WordPress security and maintenance shop at 13Core.

When not working, Michele is an organizer for WordCamp St Louis, WordCamp US 2018, WPKids Lead, and the Lead Organizer of the Southern Illinois WordPress Meetup. She also teaches beginners WordPress.

When not logged in to her computer, she loves traveling with her family, enjoys reading a good book, taking pictures, and a lover of fine food and even better drinks.

Where Michele is from: Carbondale, Illinois

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Joshua Giowaya

Joshua is passionate about creating well-crafted, visually engaging and highly usable digital experiences. He has 10+ Years in web design & development at advertising and digital agencies, plus a number of years running my own consultancy. Joshua also brings an extensive background in design that has proven invaluable when contributing to the design process and communicating with creative teams. Currently, he is a WordPress consultant extremely active in the WordPress community. He regularly attends and speaks at local WordPress Meetups. Joshua’s hope is to give back to a community that has shared so much knowledge with him.

Where Joshua is from: Minneapolis, Minnesota

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Nathan Ingram

Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and freelance business development topics via live webinar.

He is also the creator of >ADVANCE Coaching, working with WordPress business owners individually and in groups to help them become more successful in their businesses.

Nathan has been a freelance web developer since 1995, and is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he is the lead organizer of WordCamp Birmingham and co-organizer of the Birmingham WordPress Meetup.

Where Nathan is from: Alabaster, Alabama

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Sam Hermes

Sam is a senior web developer at Washington University, creating and maintaining WordPress themes and plugins for university websites. His focus is on the front end, where he enjoys working with CSS and JavaScript.

Where Sam is from: St. Louis, Missouri, Illinois

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David Needham

David Needham is a Developer Advocate at Pantheon and serves on the board of directors of Enjoy Creativity. David has been a public speaker since 2008, and an entrepreneur since 2000. David is based out of Champaign IL, enjoys photography, and playing board games with his wife and kids.

Where David is from: Champaign, Illinois

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Jason Yingling

Jason has been developing with WordPress for a decade. He’s currently the Director of Development at Red8 Interactive. You can find him blogging about WordPress development tips and the plethora of side projects he attempts on his cleverly titled site jasonyingling.me

Where Jason is from: St. Louis, Missouri

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Nile Flores

Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she’s settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design. Nile also works as an Infection Cleanup Specialist at WP Fix It.

She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people and supporting Open Source projects.

Nile founded and runs a 9,000+ member Facebook group dedicated to helping WordPressers, called All About WordPress. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.

Where Nile is from: Centralia, Illinois

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We’ll be pumping out more content in the next couple weeks. Come on out to WordCamp St. Louis and get your WordPress questions answered.