{"id":12,"date":"2019-11-13T19:27:05","date_gmt":"2019-11-13T19:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2020.santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/organizers\/"},"modified":"2020-04-19T17:22:59","modified_gmt":"2020-04-20T00:22:59","slug":"organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/santaclarita.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-joe-a-simpson-jr\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Joe A. Simpson, Jr.<\/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\/96ae813550879b6696702767bdb4de1d252a15a2ab3c62ce7c8123d4c627fded?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Joe A. Simpson, Jr.\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Lead Organizer<\/h2>\n<p>Responsible for a number of roles including Lead, Publicity, Design, Printing, Video &amp; A\/V, Transportation, and travel details,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/2020.santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/\">WordCamp Santa Clarita<\/a>&nbsp;is a labor of love for Joe.<\/p>\n<p>Joe is a Front-End Web Developer and UX Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. During days he works at\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.metro.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Metro LA<\/a>, one of the nation\u2019s top-five transit agencies, fighting the good fight to ease the commute around Los Angeles County. When their lead developer and CSS specialist both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history over a dozen years later.<\/p>\n<p>Joe has also presented topics at WordCamp Chicago, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WordCamp Los Angeles (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jL2qolQvOxo\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Los Angeles<\/a>, WordCamp Orange County, WordCamp Riverside, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WordCamp Long Beach (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2019\/11\/13\/joe-a-simpson-jr-ouch-wordpress-accessibility-that-should-not-hurt\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Long Beach<\/a>, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WordCamp Las Vegas (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2019\/09\/12\/lucky-7-dont-do-anything-until-you-hear-this-wordpress-presentation\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Las Vegas<\/a>, WordCamp Phoenix, WordCamp US, and hosts the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/wordpressscv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WordPress (opens in a new tab)\">WordPress<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/elementorscv\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Elementor (opens in a new tab)\">Elementor<\/a> Meetups in Santa Clarita.<\/p>\n<p>After a&nbsp;<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.tv\/2019\/06\/10\/joe-simpson-90-days-finding-your-place-in-the-wordpress-community\/\" target=\"_blank\">life-threatening heart event<\/a>&nbsp;and a brief leave of absence sparking a journey to rediscover the things that healed and nurtured him led him back to a love of WordPress and all things creative. Items on his bucket list were to start a local WordPress Meetup (check), host a WordCamp (check), and to speak at WordCamp Europe.<\/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-scott-dayman\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Scott Dayman<\/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\/c70e5385f0cef8cc02817129bc1dcb60392d43ba7fddf85770722522911a484f?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Scott Dayman\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Venue Wrangler<\/h2>\n<p>Scott has been using WordPress since the 1.0 days and enjoys bleeding-edge technology. He hosts several WordPress for local organizations, a client, and some friends &amp; family sites. His passion is optimization and is always looking for ways to improve processes. After a long gap in WordCamp attendance, he attended several in the past year: Santa Clarita, Orange County, Long Beach, and Riverside.<\/p>\n<p>He currently teaches second grade math and science after spending over a decade at Jet Propulsion Laboratory in engineering groups for the Galileo and Cassini missions, and a two-year dotcom stint with Petsmart. When he\u2019s not teaching or nerding out, he hangs out with his wife, two kids, and a dog.<\/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-sean-conklin\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Sean Conklin<\/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\/398e03f49d5719eed5c23c1a1625f1b3bdde5abfab7687150666e2f44ade823b?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Sean Conklin\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Website Wrangler<\/h2>\n<p>Sean has been a full-stack PHP web developer since 2002. These days he&#8217;s founder at <a href=\"https:\/\/codedcommerce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Coded Commerce, LLC<\/a> focused on developing WooCommerce powered online stores for small business clients.<\/p>\n<p>He launches and supports clients&#8217; websites, shoring-up existing implementations, developing custom functionality, achieving high-performance and low-maintenance outcomes. Using the open-source WordPress powered architecture clients fully own their software, have vendor choice and minimize their monthly and per-transaction costs.<\/p>\n<p>Sean also co-organizes and speaks at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/West-Valley-WordPress-Meetup-Group\/\" target=\"_blank\">West Valley WordPress Meetup<\/a>\u00a0as well as the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/WooCommerce-Los-Angeles-Meetup\/\" target=\"_blank\">WooCommerce Los Angeles Meetup<\/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-shannon-shaza-roberts\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Shannon \u201cSHAZA\u201d Roberts<\/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\/c9632811fe05def6428f5b72ae26d56b35de19fa7c57adf076563088817bbd6c?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Shannon \u201cSHAZA\u201d Roberts\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Budget Wrangler<\/h2>\n<p>Shannon is new to WordPress, and California. Relocating from the Big Apple to Ventura in 2018 she inherited a site at the non-profit where she had an artist studio. After a 25 year career in the fashion industry as a digital textile designer and project manager, the pivot to WordPress came naturally. Countless meetups and 4 WordCamps later she now works on enterprise-level sites as a WordPress assembler.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When not tinkering on websites Shannon can be found <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/shazalyn26\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">figure drawing<\/a><\/strong> at sketch nights, creating art under the name \u201cSHAZA\u201d,\u00a0 from coast to coast.<\/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-sumner-davenport\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Sumner Davenport<\/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\/04809ff4497d5b384e242a0f72a8190d09deb984340fd7d4937def61992bf25b?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Sumner Davenport\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Speaker Wrangler<\/h2>\n<p>Our Speaker Wrangler, Sumner Davenport, had been designing websites for over 10 years using Microsoft and Adobe products before she was introduced to WordPress in 2008. WordPress quickly became her go-to website platform.<\/p>\n<p>Sumner specializes in Web Accessibility on WordPress. Through her long-standing&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sumnerdavenport.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">organization<\/a>, she and her team build, maintain, evaluate and remediate WordPress websites to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 AA Success Criterion.<\/p>\n<p>Sumner is active in accessibility and legal conferences and educational venues. She has presented at TechAccessOK and is presenting for the second year at John Slatin AccessU 2020. She regularly speaks on topics related to compliance issues for WordPress websites at Small Business conferences, WordCamp and local WordPress groups. She is the Founder of wA11y4all and wA11yWP through which she conducts ongoing educational events.<\/p>\n<p>She is known for her engaging presentations: \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Compliance, Traps &amp; Trolls (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.meetup.com\/West-Valley-WordPress-Meetup-Group\/events\/256500734\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compliance, Traps &amp; Trolls<\/a>\u201d, \u201c<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"The Ease of Accessibility and WordPress (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MFNv6-mop3I\" target=\"_blank\">The Ease of Accessibility and WordPress<\/a>\u201d, \u201cRemediating a WordPress Site\u201d and \u201cDon\u2019t Feed the Trolls\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>She is owned by a rescue dog named Tigger and his rescue cat, Merlin.<\/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-tange-brown-simpson\">\n\t<h3 class=\"wordcamp-block__item-title wordcamp-organizers__title\" style=\"text-align:left\">Tange Brown-Simpson<\/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\/b7323fc8074db5b5831f1d18fa04b4cea79ef1209f117f364751d8bca0e67bbc?s=150&amp;d=mm&amp;r=g\" alt=\"Avatar of Tange Brown-Simpson\" \/>\t\t<\/div>\n\t\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wordcamp-block__item-content wordcamp-organizers__content is-full\"><h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Special Events Wrangler<\/h2>\n<p>Responsible for the Speakers\u2019 Dinner\/Reception and Afterparty, Tange is an Instructional Aide to the Speech Pathologist at Castaic Elementary school in the Santa Clarita Valley. She works with special needs children to improve their speech intelligibility. She is currently completing coursework at Pasadena City College in pursuit of a Speech and Language Pathologist Assistant degree.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this career, Tange worked in entertainment as a Stage Manager at NBC Television and Warner Bros Television working on shows such as Family Matters and NBC News Sunrise. When she\u2019s not helping her husband with WordCamp Santa Clarita, she is found playing Candy Crush and is excitedly planning to travel to Porto, Portugal this summer for <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"WordCamp Europe (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/2020.europe.wordcamp.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WordCamp Europe<\/a> with Joe.<\/p>\n<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":13667951,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13667951"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4003,"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12\/revisions\/4003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/santaclarita.wordcamp.org\/2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}