{"id":275,"date":"2013-04-02T23:33:59","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T04:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2013.austin.wordcamp.org\/?p=275"},"modified":"2013-04-03T09:26:36","modified_gmt":"2013-04-03T14:26:36","slug":"chris-lema-welcome-to-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/chris-lema-welcome-to-texas\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Lema &#8211; Welcome to Texas!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/2013.austin.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/04\/chirs-lema.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-276\" alt=\"chirs-lema\" src=\"https:\/\/2013.austin.wordcamp.org\/files\/2013\/04\/chirs-lema-150x150.png\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Chris Lema scared his parents by dropping out of the engineering school at Berkeley in order to get a degree in Social Welfare. That didn&#8217;t stop him from playing with computers and starting a career at Berkeley National Lab right after graduation. He started managing software engineers back in 1994, at the same time that he started building business software using the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>Today he continues to lead innovation and software development for Emphasys Software, manage staff on different continents, in multiple countries and across the US &#8211; all with his trusted internet account and phone. He&#8217;s helped design, develop and launch over 90 different software solutions delivered as online services (SaaS) and in his spare time coaches start-ups and other small companies looking to leverage technology. A regular speaker at WordCamps and other conferences, Chris is also a blogger, ebook author and runs a WordPress meetup in North County San Diego.<\/p>\n<p>Chris will be Featured in the\u00a0 <strong>Business Track<\/strong> and will present, \u2018<b>The Client&#8217;s Not Always Right: How to Protect yourself from Overshoot &amp; Dwindling Profits with WordPress<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Lema scared his parents by dropping out of the engineering school at Berkeley in order to get a degree in Social Welfare. That didn&#8217;t stop him from playing with computers and starting a career at Berkeley National Lab right after graduation. He started managing software engineers back in 1994, at the same time that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10398301,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[119249,138942],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wordcamp-2013","category-wordcamp-austin-speakers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3740D-4r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10398301"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275\/revisions\/336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}