Lead Organizers
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Mike Auteri
Mike Auteri is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who handles development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress VIP. He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented at meetups/WordCamps, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Montclair Meetup and lead organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2022.
A New Jersey native, Mike lives not 4 blocks from a house featured in the Sopranos. Mike is a fan of good beer and hot sauce.
Twitter: @mauteri
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Laura Byrne
Laura’s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization’s first website in Microsoft FrontPage. On the side, as a fan of all things sci-fi and fantasy, she was a website and forum moderator for a variety of very popular websites covering the entertainment industry. Flash forward a decade, and the hobby became her main career. She is currently a digital strategist for WebDev Studios.
When she’s not working, Laura can be found participating on stage or behind the scenes at Studio Players, figuring out how to make traditional Sicilian recipes low carb, or exploring her surroundings on a daily 4K walk in her Montclair, NJ neighborhood.
Twitter: @newyorkerlaura
Speaker and Volunteers Team
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Caleb Matteis
Letter carrier by day, web developer by night (plus earlier mornings). I’m looking to break in the tech industry and meet some cool people while doing it.
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Derek Michael
After graduating with a Masters in Music, Derick first began a career as a music arranger and sound designer. Creating sound design for major brands cultivated an interest in other channels of creative media, led him into various video production and editing roles.
He eventually worked his way up from a commercial editor to the head of marketing for a private umbrella cooperation, overseeing seven companies marketing efforts. With a focus on managing the online presence of his company and its subsidiaries, he facilitated many different marketing initiatives to ensure the company ranked high in the SERPs.Derick now works as a marketing manager with a SaaS company and regularly takes on freelance SEO and Marketing clients. Always hungry to learn more to better inform his content and marketing strategies, he spends much of his time studying and implementing SEO techniques on this favorite website platform, WordPress.
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Jason Lawton
Jason Lawton 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.
Twitter: @phoopee3
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Mike Auteri
Mike Auteri is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who handles development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress VIP. He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented at meetups/WordCamps, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Montclair Meetup and lead organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2022.
A New Jersey native, Mike lives not 4 blocks from a house featured in the Sopranos. Mike is a fan of good beer and hot sauce.
Twitter: @mauteri
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Rachel “Win” Winchester
Rachel Winchester, or Win, graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelors in art history. After creating multiple arts-related websites, she started attending WordPress meetups while teaching herself many digital marketing skills. In 2021, She signed up for Springboard’s UX Design bootcamp and began building WordPress websites for clients on a freelance basis. Currently, she works at DigitalCube on their WordPress products, client websites, and other initiatives for our users and their communities.
Twitter: @VisualWebmaster
Sponsor Team
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Gustavo Bordoni
I’ve been a WordPress developer for about 14 years, the last seven of those were spent working on Plugins. Currently, I am working as the Development Principal at The Events Calendar.
Also, spend a portion of my time with FakerPress which is a plugin for generating random test data for WordPress development, head out to WordPress.org and try it out.
As a WordPress developer, I try to contribute to Core Tickets and Forum support whenever possible.
Twitter: @webord
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Laura Byrne
Laura’s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization’s first website in Microsoft FrontPage. On the side, as a fan of all things sci-fi and fantasy, she was a website and forum moderator for a variety of very popular websites covering the entertainment industry. Flash forward a decade, and the hobby became her main career. She is currently a digital strategist for WebDev Studios.
When she’s not working, Laura can be found participating on stage or behind the scenes at Studio Players, figuring out how to make traditional Sicilian recipes low carb, or exploring her surroundings on a daily 4K walk in her Montclair, NJ neighborhood.
Twitter: @newyorkerlaura
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Rachel “Win” Winchester
Rachel Winchester, or Win, graduated from Swarthmore College with a bachelors in art history. After creating multiple arts-related websites, she started attending WordPress meetups while teaching herself many digital marketing skills. In 2021, She signed up for Springboard’s UX Design bootcamp and began building WordPress websites for clients on a freelance basis. Currently, she works at DigitalCube on their WordPress products, client websites, and other initiatives for our users and their communities.
Twitter: @VisualWebmaster
Swag Team
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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 websites 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 also volunteers at Job Seekers of Montclair as a Steering Committee member in addition to the Philadelphia Area Great Careers Group as a WordPress Consultant.
Connect with him on
Twitter: @anthonylniebo
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Carolyn Burke
Carolyn leads the newly founded South New Jersey WordPress Meetup. With a strong community and social services background, she is an experienced graphic and web designer as well as a social media coordinator with a demonstrated history of working with companies in various industries.
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Mike Auteri
Mike Auteri is a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who handles development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress VIP. He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented at meetups/WordCamps, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Montclair Meetup and lead organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2022.
A New Jersey native, Mike lives not 4 blocks from a house featured in the Sopranos. Mike is a fan of good beer and hot sauce.
Twitter: @mauteri
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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.
Twitter: @SandyDJ
Venue and Events Team
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Andres Escobar
Andres Escobar is a Senior Software Engineer. 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.
Twitter: @_a_escobar
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Howard Spaeth
Howard Spaeth is an IT consultant and Web Designer based in Glen Rock, NJ. He is a co-organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2022. He currently manages 50+ websites all built with WordPress.
Twitter: @nysportsguy13
Website and Marketing Team
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Eileen Smyth
Eileen is a web content specialist who possesses a unique combination of technical, design, and communication skills.
Her first foray into WordCamp happened when a fellow attendee of the Montclair WordPress meetup suggested she volunteer for WordCamp NYC 2019. There, she acted as co-organizer and social media wrangler.
Afterward, she received an invitation to become a co-organizer and Social Media Director for the Montclair WordPress meetup. The rest is history as Eileen prepares for Montclair WordCamp 2022. -
Laura Byrne
Laura’s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization’s first website in Microsoft FrontPage. On the side, as a fan of all things sci-fi and fantasy, she was a website and forum moderator for a variety of very popular websites covering the entertainment industry. Flash forward a decade, and the hobby became her main career. She is currently a digital strategist for WebDev Studios.
When she’s not working, Laura can be found participating on stage or behind the scenes at Studio Players, figuring out how to make traditional Sicilian recipes low carb, or exploring her surroundings on a daily 4K walk in her Montclair, NJ neighborhood.
Twitter: @newyorkerlaura
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Susan Neuhaus
This is my first WordCamp, I’m looking forward to it!
I started my career as a designer for magazines, and then for the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS). While freelancing, I decided to learn HTML and CSS. I volunteered to do websites for the PTA and then began building sites professionally.
Currently, I am the content designer and website manager for a manufacturer whose products sell worldwide in the research, aerospace, and energy sectors. On the side, I help my husband design children’s books and related materials. I’ve found some intersection between the two different types of projects in making ebooks.
I’m building out my Content Designer site here.
The NeuStudio Children’s Book Design site is here.
When I’m not working I enjoy packing up my sketchbook and watercolors for a little urban sketching.
Twitter: @sueneu @neustudio
