{"id":12,"date":"2022-09-13T10:18:08","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T10:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2023-01-28T14:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-01-28T14:23:26","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Lead Organizers<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-grid wordcamp-organizers has-grid-columns-2\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-jason-lawton\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Jason Lawton<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-none\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1e7020d6f1a5ddae2f4dc730e39f15d0e213f47e873b30c38f957a97ce2b652f?s=124&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Jason Lawton\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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, &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-laura-byrne\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Laura Byrne<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-none\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4c02135b6783c4481855645790679c9f507acc5831356ab6c8f637815d1d56c7?s=124&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Laura Byrne\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>Laura\u2019s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization\u2019s 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Speaker Team<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-grid wordcamp-organizers has-grid-columns-2\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-carolyn-burke\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Carolyn Burke<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2023\/01\/carolyn-Burke-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Avatar of Carolyn Burke\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-derick-michael\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Derick Michael<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7da5743949d6a5032be071f5e9dfedfb9606b753a9f46969a8e7c19535cf53a4?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Derick Michael\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-erica-varlese\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Erica Varlese<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bcd0fec27c3de01c3144dd779aeb0336e3096be11ada9dab3fec7ae82de37c75?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Erica Varlese\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-mike-auteri\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Mike Auteri<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4b51ce6077e7d045943e7d2051815290d4dfa518106657782f7a1fd1d0b7f6fc?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Mike Auteri\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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\u2019s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Sponsor Team<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-grid wordcamp-organizers has-grid-columns-2\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-gustavo-bordoni\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Gustavo Bordoni<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e3171496e198834c638911ad3c3220bec77871cdf6557eaa9e2a58d16600a1a1?s=124&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Gustavo Bordoni\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>I\u2019ve 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&nbsp;The Events Calendar. Also, spend a portion of my time with&nbsp;FakerPress&nbsp;which is a plugin for generating random test data for WordPress development, head out to&nbsp;WordPress.org&nbsp;and try it out. &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-howard-spaeth\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Howard Spaeth<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"124\" height=\"124\" src=\"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2022\/12\/9S4A8206-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-124x124 size-124x124 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Avatar of Howard Spaeth\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-laura-byrne\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Laura Byrne<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4c02135b6783c4481855645790679c9f507acc5831356ab6c8f637815d1d56c7?s=124&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Laura Byrne\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>Laura\u2019s first career was in nonprofit marketing, development, and communication where she created the organization\u2019s 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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Swag Team<\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-list wordcamp-organizers\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-carolyn-burke\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Carolyn Burke<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2023\/01\/carolyn-Burke-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Avatar of Carolyn Burke\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Communications Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Website and Social Media<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-grid wordcamp-organizers has-grid-columns-2\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-cameron-barrett\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Cameron Barrett<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/1320da1d8291df6833a81d8e9220c0564509940421fa57f14bd314bacbed62e4?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Cameron Barrett\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>Cameron (@camworld) pioneered the blog format in the late 1990s. He\u2019s 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\u2019s largest public school district. He\u2019s now migrating all 14,000+ U.S. public school districts to WordPress, &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-eileen-smyth\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Eileen Smyth<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2023\/01\/eileen-smyth-150x150.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Avatar of Eileen Smyth\" srcset=\"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2023\/01\/eileen-smyth-150x150.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2023\/01\/eileen-smyth-300x300.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2023\/01\/eileen-smyth.jpeg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center has-accent-color has-text-color\">Inbox Wrangler<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-list wordcamp-organizers\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-anthony-l-niebo\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Anthony L. Niebo<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/be6c6c4b3498f15b0437db3c83f64d773f343997fe8aa4520e624d882cc4d3f8?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Anthony L. Niebo\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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!\u2019s GeoCities heyday and AOL Journals (respectively) under various pen names. You can find Anthony currently blogging at &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Venues Team<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Montclair State University<\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-grid wordcamp-organizers has-grid-columns-2\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-howard-spaeth\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Howard Spaeth<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/montclair.wordcamp.org\/2023\/files\/2022\/12\/9S4A8206-1-150x150.png\" class=\"attachment-150x150 size-150x150 wp-post-image\" alt=\"Avatar of Howard Spaeth\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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 &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-mike-auteri\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Mike Auteri<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/4b51ce6077e7d045943e7d2051815290d4dfa518106657782f7a1fd1d0b7f6fc?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Mike Auteri\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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\u2019s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core and Gutenberg, is a WordPress community deputy, has written a couple plugins, presented &hellip; <\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">Catering and Party Venues <\/h3>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wordcamp-block wordcamp-post-list has-layout-list wordcamp-organizers\"><li class=\"wordcamp-post-list__post wordcamp-clearfix\">\n<div class=\"wordcamp-organizer wordcamp-organizers__post slug-andres-escobar\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Andres Escobar<\/h3>\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-image__avatar-container align-left\">\n\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/e747c91dfc73729cc20879b85e28ead72083cee85d09e7e9800374821d9fd6a7?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Andres Escobar\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-excerpt\"><p>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. 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