{"id":12,"date":"2020-04-30T21:00:28","date_gmt":"2020-04-30T21:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2020.austin.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T13:09:32","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T18:09:32","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/organizers\/","title":{"rendered":"Organizers"},"content":{"rendered":"<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-ben-moore\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Ben Moore<\/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\/744b9311cd20301fb43ca84a4d1bda77236ebcf58d17c9368b57a888b001461d?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Ben Moore\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ben Moore is the current lead organizer of the Austin WordPress Meetup, a Software Engineer at WP Engine, a core contributor, and the founder of SkyPress. He has talked at WordCamps all across the country and has a special interest in pushing WordPress past it&#8217;s limits. He is passionate about sharing knowledge and growing the local community.<\/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-breann-mcdede\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Breann McDede<\/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\/71213349046563db6ab1eaab75f3a9e00eb0a2f88835664c3cd1e98246c3db3e?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Breann McDede\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Breann has loved and worked in the event world for over 6 years, with experience in hospitality, food and beverage, corporate, nonprofit, and currently tech, where she works as the Senior Event Specialist for Bluehost. She has been in the WordPress world for two years, and was instantly drawn to the community. She thrives in helping others advance their websites and businesses with events. In her free time, she loves to cook, bake, garden, play fetch with her cats, Teddy and Pepper.<\/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-cousett-hoover\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Cousett Hoover<\/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\/03020cc2ed8813d1d52fc461cb56ff3966b96d57a61a6dbbec3c763519dd9aed?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Cousett Hoover\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Cousett is known as THE <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/techiemamma.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/techiemamma.com\" target=\"_blank\">Techie Mamma<\/a>. She is the mom of 2 boys and loves all things tech-related. Through her passionate tech instruction, Cousett teaches other mompreneurs how to maximize the technology so they can scale their business, live the lifestyle they want, and contribute something unique with fantastic technology. She also helps fellow mompreneurs, and other small businesses, get their website designed and developed and navigate other business tools like blogs, mailing lists, and CRMs.<\/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-devin-sears\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Devin Sears<\/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\/3561264b7806b1f967a8dcbc7907681637719b76901f52ae90014c76da482d5f?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Devin Sears\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After giving up on his aspirations to play in the NBA, Devin has found his place in the marketing world. As a Field Marketing Manager, he travels the country(whenever travel is allowed) in quest of the perfect milkshake while working with the WordPress community to help SMBs grow a successful online presence. In his free time he can be found in the middle of a marathon(Netflix, not running), cruising on his motorcycle, swinging from a hammock somewhere in nature or playing ping-pong.<\/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-hong-nga-nguyen\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Hong Nga Nguyen<\/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\/69092004b9b365247b352af3bf58280a91538b3ddae195c61e3f02f4a84eb223?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Hong Nga Nguyen\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hong Nga is an Austin native who first learned about WordPress when she joined WP Engine as an intern in 2015. Since then, she&#8217;s attended many WordCamps over the years and have learned a lot about the WordPress community. At WP Engine, she works as a Partner Manager leading many of WP Engine&#8217;s collaborative partnerships with WordPress plugins and services owners.<\/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-madison-sadler\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Madison Sadler<\/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\/348a2e162d8230e505c47dbd3b45a00fd4a7fc23c66c30de1cb8d193a1073521?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Madison Sadler\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As an Austin native, Madison fell in love with the WordPress community after joining WP Engine in 2018. The Genesis framework has been his primary area of focus as the StudioPress\/Genesis Product SME. He is currently an L2 Technical Support Engineer with WP Engine and is both proud and grateful to be involved in his first WordCamp at WordCamp Austin 2020.<\/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-megan-bandstra\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Megan Bandstra<\/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\/35f149dfc55dff86182a4b4c2d87ccfe9148cb3fc682a0bb9afb773cee06b56e?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Megan Bandstra\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Megan Bandstra is an Associate Marketing Events Manager at Austin&#8217;s very own, WP Engine. She has been involved in the WordPress community for two years and values contributing time and effort to WordCamps.<\/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-nick-batik\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Nick Batik<\/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\/61d03ef299949d52e91ccbcc6f7a3ce2753eb0c118ba2d5d46dae35d2d1bad04?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Nick Batik\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nick Batik is a WordPress Solutions Architect and Developer specializing in business and e-commerce websites, with a portfolio ranging from authors and entrepreneurs, to large multi-nationals, and government agencies, and is Co-Organizer of the Austin WordPress and WooCommerce Meetups.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has presented both technical and business WordPress classes at numerous meetups, PodCamps and WordCamps and conferences in the US, UK, Europe, and Scandinavia. Nick specializes in the system design and implementation of complex, custom WordPress-based solutions that address client data management issues. As the back-end developer, he creates the custom database systems and functionality. Nick has dedicated his professional career to information architecture and solutions design.<\/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-ronnie-burt\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Ronnie Burt<\/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\/5219edffb5cf611f3e1582d64d9077547a37370d7a0745895d28971740256d8c?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Ronnie Burt\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ronnie is a former educator, a math nerd, and a wannabe musician from Austin, Texas. For the past 10 years, he&#8217;s worked at Incsub, the company behind WPMU DEV, CampusPress, and Edublogs &#8211; where he leads the teams behind the hosting and education services. Find him blogging at <a href=\"https:\/\/ronnieburt.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ronnieburt.com\">ronnieburt.com<\/a>.<\/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-ryan-hoover\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Ryan Hoover<\/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\/04d6e19ff0760fd950196eccc54deb0284d1f942df3f4b4186144056d9eb203f?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Ryan Hoover\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ryan Hoover is the Manager of Web Development at WP Engine, core contributor, former lead organizer of WordCamp Austin, and long-time co-organizer of the Austin WordPress meetup. He\u2019s passionate about open source technologies, the WordPress community, and making WordPress development faster and safer for everyone.<\/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-sandi-batik\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\">Sandi Batik<\/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\/a58fbda6519df584732b795fb2bcd06b5e8cfdaacdbcb21464fcae7291eab937?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Sandi Batik\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Sandi Batik is a WordPress and eCommerce consultant, business process analyst, unapologetic geek, unrepentant capitalist, and lucky enough to do what she loves every day. Sandi has been a member of the Austin WordPress meetup since 2008, a WPATX co-organizer since 2010, and a founding organizer and co-sponsor of the WooCommerce Austin Meetup. Sandi\u2019s company LoneStar Software Services offers Business Solutions, including WooCommerce Stores, WooCommerce Site Administration Services, WordPress Membership Sites, Custom eCommerce Plugins, and Strategic Consultancy for eCommerce Projects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":15193561,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15193561"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":544,"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/austin.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}