Organizer
Responsible for wrangling a number of roles, WordCamp Santa Clarita is a labor of love for Joe. Tired of spending late nights driving 45 minutes into and out of Los Angeles to attend WordPress Meetups, he founded the WordPress and Elementor Santa Clarita Valley Meetups. Shortly thereafter, WordCamp Santa Clarita ushered in the spring of 2019.
During endless, sun-soaked days he works at Metro LA, one of the largest transit agencies in the World, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, Joe pivoted, focusing FIRST on rediscovering the things he truly loved — WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back.
Joe actively contributes to the WordPress Community — founding two WordPress-based Meetups (WordPress and Elementor), speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, is currently on the Organizing team for WordCamp Santa Clarita 2021, is part of a WordPress initiative at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU), and is a SiteGround Ambassador.
Due to Joe’s awesome contributions, lead organizer Sumner Davenport nominated Joe in late 2020 for Yoast Care as a person who works extremely hard to make WordPress even better. We are proud to say that Joe is now one of only 57 worldwide recipients of the Yoast Community Appreciation Rewards! Humble as he is, Joe left this out of his bio, so we secretly added it. Shhh, don’t tell him but please take the time to congratulate Joe on this well-deserved award and read his winning interview here!
A fan of heights, Joe enjoys each roller coaster that comes to Magic Mountain that is taller, faster, and scarier than the original metal monster, Gold Rusher!