Organizers

  • Chris Finney

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    Chris is a Manager of the Customer Support Engineer team at Pantheon. In 2017, Chris swore never to work with WordPress again, but they’re now a passionate evangelist! A first-time WordCamp organizer, and very excited to be a part of the community.

  • Kathryn Lang

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    Venue Wrangler

    Kathryn believes in unicorns, pots of gold at the end of the rainbows, and magical house-cleaning forest animals because if you dare to believe then you can create anything.

    Kathryn builds cupcakes of BIG DREAM goals sprinkled with hope and a dash of twisted encouragement because if you aren’t enjoying the journey then it’s time to change rides.

    Kathryn gives wings to possibility living because this world is full of superheroes that simply need to harness their unique superpowers and once you discover the Y of you then you will fly (or at least do amazing things that leave others awestruck).

    You’ll find that she weaves the fanciful imagination with purposeful words of hope in the stories she shares because with a seed of hope everything can happen.

  • Kristi Oliver

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  • Nathan Ingram

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    Speaker Wrangler

    Nathan is the Host at iThemes Training where he teaches WordPress and business development topics via live webinar. He is also the creator of MonsterContracts, proven contracts for WordPress client work.

    As the founder of >ADVANCE Coaching, Nathan is a Growth Coach for WordPress Business owners individually and in groups, helping them become more successful in their businesses.

    Nathan has been working with clients to build websites since 1995. He is based in Birmingham, Alabama where he has been an organizer for WordCamp Birmingham (WP Y’all) for several years.

  • Ryan Marks

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    Lead Organizer

    Ryan is an Engineering Manager for Pantheon. He has been using WordPress since 2006, has been involved an organizer of WordCamp Birmingham since 2017, and is a WordPress Community Deputy. He enjoys Alabama Football and Softball games, saltwater fishing, snow-skiing, and giving back to his local community.

  • Shelley Love

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  • Zachary Skaggs

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    Zach is a certified Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO I), currently working as a product owner in the Birmingham area.  A student of lean process improvement for more than a decade, he’s worked in technology for differing industries from large production/retail environments like Amazon.com, WordPress plugin development companies like Saturday Drive, and education-focused companies like ProctorU.  Currently he works as a product owner in healthcare for Therapy Brands here in Birmingham and founded /co-facilitates a free, open group of professional agile-minded individuals to learn from one another at https://agilewatercooler.com

    Zach began working with WordPress in 2014 and grew to love the software and the community through his experiences in local meetups and WordCamps, and is excited for the opportunity to continue contributing to the WordPress community at #WPYALL.