Adventurer, coder, and dog-owner.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
I worked as a WordPress developer with a radio station in Lima
Category Archives: Speakers/Sessions
Speaker Spotlight – Ifo Ikede
Ifo Ikede, is Isoko, from the Niger-Delta region of the west coast of Africa. They are in the launch phase of a social media and marketing company, which will focus on helping non-profits and businesses to better market to clients from non-English and non-French cultural background.
Their experience as an immigrant to Canada, as well as active participation in settlement for both immigrant and refugee groups as well as their involvement in first nations and African-Canadian integration issues puts Ifo in a unique position to be able to provide insights from lived experience as well as the thousands of years of wisdom from the ancestors, to create healthy and healing communities.
Ifo is addicted to drumming and dancing, often dancing 3 to 5 times a week, is a competitive soccer player and martial artists… and like many African grandmas loves to cook and share yummy treats…
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
Meeting the lovely and welcoming folks at the Halifax WordPress meetup and becoming an active member. Also being able to help local and international non-profits use WordPress as a solid solution for their on-line needs.
I love how easy it is to use WordPress to provide solutions. The collection of plugins allow one to easily accomplish just about anything today… that 20 years ago, would have taken an IT team and 100s or thousands of dollars to deploy. Today we can do much better with WordPress and a handful of plugins.
This helps to reduce the barrier to enter for e-commerce or just having an engaging online presence.
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Speaker Spotlight – David Moore
Founder, Director of Operations at ShadesColour & Associates. David Moore is an eCommerce expert and developer, with over 10 years of real world experience both building online stores, and running them.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
I’m happy to a be a WordPress/woocommerce developer. I’m really happy. I run other businesses and WordPress has given me the means in which I can represent my own businesses, and in turn, help other businesses to better represent themselves on the internet.
I was an early adopter of WordPress. I’ve been using it since Version 2, and I’m really proud to be involved with something that has really grown in all kinds of leaps and bounds.
I’m still finding new uses for WordPress, which I think is awesome!
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Speaker Spotlight – Shawn Hooper
Hailing from Ottawa, Canada, Shawn has been building web applications since the late 90s, with a focus on WordPress since 2011. He is the Director of IT at Actionable, a learning and development startup based in Toronto. 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 the lead organizer of WordCamp Ottawa 2018.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
Getting involved in the community. This has been my first real adventure into Open Source Software
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Speaker Spotlight – Chris Wiseman
Chris is a WordPress developer born and raised in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. Currently living in Halifax and working in Bedford, he has been developing professionally with WordPress for the past four years. He has spent a lot of time looking into a dev stack that makes WordPress easier to maintain, and more enjoyable to develop with.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
So far it’s been getting a maintainable stack up and running at my company. It’s very rewarding to see lots of hard work come together to make everyone’s lives a little easier.
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Speaker Spotlight – Remy Perona
I am the lead developer of WP Rocket, a popular premium WordPress plugin to optimize the speed of websites. I love sharing my knowledge about website performance optimization, loading time & development for and with WordPress, by speaking at WordCamps in France and Canada.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
It is thanks to WordPress that I have been able to become a freelance developer, meet a lot of people, and then thanks to that, become part of a team creating great products for the WordPress ecosystem.
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Speaker Spotlight – Heather Deveaux
Heather Deveaux is a full-time freelance writer who works with clients all over the world from her home in New Waterford, Nova Scotia. Heather launched her career as a freelance writer within hours of losing her job as an executive director of a career college in Cape Breton. After the college closed, Heather decided she was ready to dedicate her skills and abilities to her own business and has been successfully growing her freelance writing business ever since. She’s recently branched out to create The Freelance Writing School, in which she’ll teach others how to start and run their own freelance writing businesses in rural areas across Canada. Heather holds a Master of Adult Education degree and taught herself how to use WordPress when she realized she needed a website that was fully customizable that she could build when she wasn’t working on client projects.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
I love WordPress because it has provided me with a platform to share my business(es) without having to fork over a lot of money. I appreciate the high quality platform and the ease of use. It has literally changed the way I see web design and no longer feel intimidated by what it takes to get a business on the web. Plus, it’s also evolving and there’s something to learn every single day.
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Speaker Spotlight – Gary Thayer
Gary Thayer is a WordPress Developer at Hall Internet Marketing who specializes in eCommerce websites and analytics tracking. He is an active member of the WordPress community, acting as an organizer for the Southern Maine WordPress Meetup and as Lead Organizer for WordCamp Portland, ME.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
Getting to build some really cool stores and applications for businesses with a diverse set of needs. WordPress is super flexible, while always offering a familiar framework for users.
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Speaker Spotlight – Lisa Patts
Lisa Patts is an entrepreneur who enjoys learning new things. She has been using WordPress as her web hosting platform for various websites since 2012.
She operates PianoVideoLessons.com where she teaches adults who have never played piano before how to play and read music. Lisa has been teaching piano since she graduated from University. She is also a YouTube Creator with a Silver Play Button, and she is a Voice Actor who can often be heard on local radio ads. Taking the advice she is giving in today’s talk, she has just launched FreelanceToFreeLaunch.com on the WordPress.com platform.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
The ability to control my own content and learn at my own rate.
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Speaker Spotlight – Jennifer Gyuricska
Jennifer Gyuricska is a digital marketer and strategist from Fredericton, NB. Jennifer began her career hosting small town radio and has since accumulated over 15 years experience in marketing and communications.
What’s been your best experience with WordPress?
The best thing about WordPress is their consistency. I can always work successfully with websites on this platform: it’s so highly customizable and there’s a ton of reference material available.