Organizers

Lead Organizer

This role focuses on overall camp strategy and budget, including sponsors and tickets. It also means helping out in every aspect of the camp.

Stephanie Brinley

With a life-long passion for art and a BFA in Graphic Design, Stephanie is a web designer with an emphasis on design. Stephanie is the owner of Flightless, specializing in WordPress sites since 2008. She has been involved with the Florida WordPress community since 2014 and has been honored to share her knowledge at WordCamps Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and US. Most weeks you will find her attempting to balance web design and homeschooling, exploring the world of flavors she can invent in her kitchen, and sometimes on Twitter @sjbrinley.

Volunteer Coordinator

WordCamp is 100% staffed by volunteers. This is the volunteer to coordinate all volunteers and keep our camp running smoothly.

Karena Kreger

With a unique combination of technical skills and a strong design eye, Karena has over a decade of experience in building her clients’ compelling, professional web presence. Karena runs Open Sky Web Studio in Jacksonville, FL, specializing in WordPress websites for small businesses and organizations since 2009. The organizer of the WPJax Meetup, Karena is a teacher at heart, striving to provide a creative and educational experience, without the scary tech talk.

Follow @karenalenore.

Speaker Coordinator

Being a speaker can be stressful. Having a single person to communicate with helps a little bit with that.

Frank Corso

Frank has been working with WordPress since 2009 and is the founder of Markasio, an agency that creates digital marketing software products. He is the organizer of Gainesville’s Digital Marketing Meetup, WordPress Meetup, and PHP Meetup. In his spare time, he also teaches web development both as an adjunct professor at the University of Florida and a Subject Matter Expert at IT.Pro TV.

Frank has developed many types of software including Xbox 360 games, mobile phone apps, websites, and AR apps. He loves to blog about marketing, business, and user research.

Above all else, he enjoys spending time with daughter.

Twitter: @fpcorso

Branding & Design Coordinator

Even WordCamps have brands and we need someone to lead the way.

Laura Phillips

Laura is the Technical Director for Marjoram Creative, a B2B Marketing Communications agency based in Atlanta. She has spent 20 years building websites with a history of expertise in UX, eCommerce and Technical Project Management. She also holds a degree in Graphic Design.

In 2015 Laura moved to Julington Creek to join her now husband and can be found performing with her family band Radio Phillips when she is not unraveling technical puzzles. You can find her on twitter at @smartaleckl

Events & Venue Coordinator

This is not a position for the faint-of-heart. Communicating with the venue and organizing our parties takes countless phone calls, emails, and a spine of steel for tough negotiations.

Jessica Fowler

Jessica has experience in marketing, copy writing, volunteer management and administration. She is currently leveraging her experience and BS in Marketing to provide project support at Open Sky Web Studio. Outside of work and managing the household, she is a serial dabbler and has rarely met a craft or hobby she didn’t enjoy.

Food & Beverage Coordinator

Food is good. We like food. We also like coffee and popsicles. Someone has to make that happen.

Gary Kovar

A Native Floridian, Gary is a happy Backend Developer at Modern Tribe. When not pushing the boundaries of enterprise WordPress, he spends his time learning and playing obscure stringed instruments, teaching his kids about home improvement, and geeking out about commercial space flight.
This is Gary’s second year as a WordCamp Jax organizer.

For compelling taco content on Twitter, follow @binarygary.

Community Engagement Coordinator

Is the event going smoothly? Is everyone having a good time? Are needs being met? This person keeps a pulse on all the happenings during WordCamp Jacksonville.

Daniel Iser

Daniel has been developing with WordPress for over 8 years. He developed and maintains several successful plugins including Popup Maker and Easy Modal and has a new plugin called Ahoy! which provides targeted user messaging and cart abandonment prevention.

Daniel enjoys his family, constant learning and is always trying to make something better than it was. He considers himself an entrepreneur and has been client free for nearly 4 years as a WP product developer.

Find him on Twitter: @daniel_iser, or WordPress.org

Panel Wrangler

Panels are popular, but well organized panels are talked about and remembered.

Young McQueen

Young’s experience is fashioned from his education and employment in large companies in the 1970’s and 1980’s. He has worked as a Product Manager/Marketing Manager in the consumer goods industry. He has taught marketing at Jacksonville University. He has founded twelve companies—some successfully.

After retirement, he concentrates on photography and WordPress sites.

Sponsorship Team

Recruiting sponsors and following up with them could be a full-time job. It’s more than one person can handle.

Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson founded a software development company Get Code Smart, a developer by trade he has had a passion for software and web development for over 5 years most of which were spent working with WordPress. His primary focus is developing church-related software and website ranging from e-commerce to online learning platforms.

Alex Sanfilippo

Alex Sanfilippo uses his long term business and coaching background to help others achieve more in business and in life. Over the past 5 years Alex has been working with WordPress. Since that time he has been helping overs achieve their WordPress goals.

Tech Team

Technology is great until it doesn’t work. These dedicated individuals will do their best to make sure our technology works during WordCamp Jacksonville.

Scott Anderson

Scott Anderson founded a software development company Get Code Smart, a developer by trade he has had a passion for software and web development for over 5 years most of which were spent working with WordPress. His primary focus is developing church-related software and website ranging from e-commerce to online learning platforms.

Ian Svoboda

Ian is the founder of TitanHost, a Managed WordPress Hosting company and a Frontend Developer at Oyova Software in Atlantic Beach. Ian has been working with WordPress for over 5 years and is very passionate about his work. He loves learning new things and sharing what he knows.