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Mike Auteri
Mike Auteri (@mauteri) is a Senior Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who leads development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress.com VIP. He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core, written a couple plugins, presented at meetups/WordCamps, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Montclair Meetup and lead organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2020. A New Jersey native, Mike lives not 4 blocks from a house featured in the Sopranos. Mike is a fan of good beer, hot sauce, and an avid fencer.
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Jason Lawton
Jason Lawton (@phoopee3) has been developing websites since 1996, and using WordPress to do so for almost 10 years. During the day he works for a design agency as a WordPress developer focusing on custom theme and plugin development. When not working he enjoys spending time with his family, checking out the latest javascript frameworks, playing video games, and reading sci-fi or fantasy books.
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Howard Spaeth
Howard Spaeth (@nysportsguy13) is an IT consultant and Web Designer based in Glen Rock, NJ. He is a co-organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2020. He currently manages 50+ websites all built with WordPress.
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Mickey Diener
Mickey is a retired Technology Project Manager and IS Director who worked in the Public Sector and Healthcare Information Systems industry for over 30 years. He was an organizer for WordCamp Montclair 2019.
He now spends time as a WordPress website designer and builder, specializing in the Divi Theme/Page Builder and has built sites for political organizations, NGOs and Small Businesses.
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Cameron Barrett
Cameron (@camworld) pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s. He has built web sites for presidential candidates, the U.S. Army, the World Economic Forum and led the migration of 70+ web sites from a proprietary SaaS to WordPress for NJ’s largest public school district. He’s now migrating all 14,000+ U.S. public school districts to WordPress, saving millions of taxpayer dollars. He hails from Northern Michigan and currently lives outside of NYC.
He founded the Montclair WordPress Meetup and was on the WordPress Enterprise Growth Council from 2017-2019. He was Lead Organizer for WordCamp Montclair 2019.
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Anthony L Niebo
Anthony is a Technical Support Consultant at Your Mak Guy Computing Services, assisting people with their technological problems whether be iPhone/iPad, Mac, Podcast, filming, website, or other challenges. Affiliated with the internet building web sites and blogging since Yahoo!’s GeoCities heyday and AOL Journals (respectively) under various pen names. You can find Anthony currently blogging at “AnthonyNiebo.com” sharing insights and experience gained from not only his failures and mistakes, but also those acquainted with him. He is currently relaunching his podcast “Success Hotline Library” which can be found at AnthonyNiebo.com/Podcasts
In addition to volunteering for the WordPress Montclair group, he volunteers at Job Seekers of Montclair (an organization offering free, non-sectarian job search training and support group,) as a Steering Committee member and topic speaker. The Job Seekers organization holds meetings every Wednesday night at 7:30pm in St. Luke’s Church dining hall, around the corner from the main Montclair Public Library.
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Andres Escobar
Andres Escobar is a Sr. Software Engineer at PMC. He is a self-taught digital architect who believes in the WordPress mission to democratize publishing.
In his spare time, Andres volunteers teaching kids how to code in his home town of Hoboken, NJ.
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Jeffrey Marbury
Jeffrey is a career Information Technology professional with specific focus in the areas of Help Desk/Desktop Support and Customer Service management. He has managed teams for such companies as MasterCard, Credit Suisse First Boston, and Engelhard Corporation, now a fully-owned subsidiary of BASF.
For the next phase of his career, Jeffrey will be working on creating websites for small businesses as well as blogging, specifically for the benefit of those engaged in fulfilling customer requirements in business interactions. Some of his former blog posts can be found at https://jeffmarbury.com.
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Alex Franges
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Stephen Kriso
Stephen has been involved in web-based media since 1997. He entered the WordPress space in 2007 with his own music industry focused blog. Since then, he has built several of his own sites on WP and continued to coach and mentor others needing assistance. He also offers coaching in business startup strategy and digital media to budding entrepreneurs and small business owners.
Stephen is a member of WP Elevation, a program for WordPress Digital Business Consultants and is also a graduate of the Disney Institute where facilitators share insights on best business practices. In 2014, he took part in Disney’s Approach to Business Excellence and attended their Customer Experience Summit this past August.
In his spare time, he enjoys playing piano, guitar, bass and writing music as well as photography.
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Eileen Smyth
Eileen Smyth is a Web Content Producer, Writer, and Editor specializing in the lost art of writing. Her first experience with WordCamp was as co-organizer and Social Media Director for WordCamp NYC 2019. It was so much fun, she decided to repeat the experience and help Montclair WordCamp 2020. She is currently a co-organizer and Social Media Director for both WordCamp 2020 and the Montclair WordPress meetup.
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Angie Garcia
Anghelys (Angie) Garcia is a Graphic Designer with experience in building WordPress websites. She developed an interest in graphic and web design from an early age, through editing photos and tweaking HTML layouts on myspace.com. She works full-time at SHI International Corp, as a Graphic Designer, where she uses her skills to create varied visuals and HTML emails. In the past she’s taken on freelance clients building WP websites. She’s dabbled with plug-ins like WP-Bakery, Elementor, and many more. In her spare time she enjoys dancing, knitting, watching a good show, having a good laugh, and staying active.
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Sandy De Jesus
Sandy De Jesus is currently an administrative assistant in the English department at William Paterson University. Current goals include bringing the department’s faculty out of the 18th century into the 21st, hint with some of them it is not so easy. Sandy’s been at WPU since October 2001, when she folded her computer consulting business By The Hour, Inc. because of her family’s trauma as a result of 9-11 and the sudden death of another close family friend. Sandy’s favorite software program is MS Excel and she has a MFA in Snark bestowed upon her by anyone whose known her more than a few years.
Sandy’s been exhibiting software at major events, like NJ State bar association meetings since the mid 1990’s. Sandy is currently completing a Franklin Covey certification in project management and will be a trainer at WPU for getting the staff up to speed on their skills.
Other than that, Sandy knits from October to March and watches baseball from April to September for pleasure, so when Sandy discovered that semiannualknitter.com was available, she decided it was a sign and Sandy uses WordPress to power it.
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Joe Campbell
