We’re excited to announce our third round of speakers! Along with our first round and second round of speakers, this group will be presenting at WordCamp US! Share with your friends and purchase a ticket to WCUS. If you want to ensure that you have a badge printed with your name and gravatar photo, be sure to get your ticket before November 1st.
If you’re planning to join us and want to book a room at the WCUS official hotel, be sure to do so soon! Rooms are selling out fast! If you want to see some of the cool things to do in the area, check out our google map, which is all marked up with points of interest, restaurants, nightlife, and more.
We hope we’ll see you there in December! And now, our third round of speakers:
Lisa Linn Allen
Lisa Linn Allen is a Principal IT Software Developer and Team Lead for the intranet team at SAS in Cary. She’s been working on the SAS intranet since the days of NCSA Mosaic. For the last few years, her team has been working on moving large parts of this intranet into a governed, custom-built WordPress site.
Lisa lives in central North Carolina, and enjoys sewing, swimming, and cheering on her husband and son at Taekwondo tournaments. Her favorite WordPress accomplishment to date: Building a continuous deployment pipeline for WordPress.
Aaron Douglas
Aaron was that kid taking apart the mechanical and electrical appliances at five years of age to see how they worked. He never grew out of that core interest – to know how things work. He took an early interest in computer programming, figuring out how to get past security to be able to play games on his dad’s computer. He’s still that feisty nerd, but at least now he gets paid to do it.
Aaron’s interest in mobile software has been ever increasing since he got his first iOS app in Apple’s App Store in 2009, Migraine Diary. He is with Automattic (WordPress.com, Akismet, SimpleNote) as a Mobile Maker. Other than software development, Aaron enjoys camping during the summer, taking his dogs for a walk around the neighborhood, and pretending to be a storm chaser while sitting at home.
Jenny Beaumont
With 20 years experience in the web industry, Jenny Beaumont works as a Senior Project Manager and certified Scrum Master at Human Made. She is an active member of the WordPress community, having most recently lead the organization of WordCamp Europe 2018 in Belgrade.
Dwayne McDaniel
Dwayne has been working in tech and open source sales since 2005. He knew as soon as he started working with Java middleware developers he never wanted to work outside of open source ever again.
Dwayne first started building in Drupal and WordPress for the San Francisco Improv teams and projects. He fell in the love the community and then found a position at Pantheon at the end of 2013.
As a Developer Advocate he has had the privilege of presenting at dozens of community events from Paris to Iceland to MIT and Stanford. Outside of tech he loves producing and performing improv theater, reading webcomics and singing karaoke!
Check back soon for the next round of speaker announcements! While you’re at it, purchase a ticket to WCUS if you haven’t already.