Organizers

Lead Organizers

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, …
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 …

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.
Derick 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 …
Erica Varlese

Erica Varlese works at Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com, and is a sponsored contributor to the WordPress project. She first discovered WordPress when building a portfolio as a freelance writer more than ten years ago; the rest, as they say, is history. She is a WordPress Community Deputy, former Polyglots contributor team representative, and translator …
Mike Auteri

Mike Auteri is an Associate Director of Engineering at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who oversees development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress VIP (Rolling Stone, Billboard, WWD, Variety, Deadline et al). He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented …

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. …
Howard Spaeth

Howard Spaeth is a WordPress Consultant, who runs his own agency, H Grant Designs. He has owned this business for over 8 years. He also works for numerous web design agencies all over the country. He enjoys the ins and out of making a website comes to life, as well as fixing broken WordPress websites.He …
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 …

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.

Cameron Barrett

Cameron (@camworld) pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s. He’s 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, …
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 …

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 …

Howard Spaeth

Howard Spaeth is a WordPress Consultant, who runs his own agency, H Grant Designs. He has owned this business for over 8 years. He also works for numerous web design agencies all over the country. He enjoys the ins and out of making a website comes to life, as well as fixing broken WordPress websites.He …
Mike Auteri

Mike Auteri is an Associate Director of Engineering at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who oversees development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress VIP (Rolling Stone, Billboard, WWD, Variety, Deadline et al). He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented …

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