Company Courtney A Robertson Industry WordPress Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story I began using WordPress with 2.3, roughly in 2007. I needed a learning management system and a blog, so I began my open source journey with Moodle and Joomla. Soon after, I found WordPress. I attended my first WordCamp in 2009 before …
Company forgemedia LLC Industry WordPress Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story My background is in IT support. If you’ve got a computer problem, I can probably fix it. But after a decade into that career, I knew I didn’t want to do that for the rest of my life. Waking up at midnight …
Company Valet Industry WordPress Time in this Industry 8-10 years Favorite Plugins or Themes Being an agency that has seen a countless variety of unique setups and tons of technical debt I can say that we have a longer list of ‘don’t go there’ plugins and themes than we do ‘go to’. We like lightweight, …
Company Kinsta Industry Sales and Marketing Time in this Industry 3-4 Years Origin Story I started using WordPress back in high school, and built up a bunch of related skills over the years – some coding, server maintenance, SSH, customizing plugins, etc. After college, I actually worked in the entertainment industry for a while. I spent …
Company Kinsta Industry Sales and Marketing Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story I’m a data-driven sales and marketing leader with more than 13 years of experience in multiple revenue roles and environments. My expertise spans multiple verticals (eCommerce, payments, and telecommunications), but my deepest base of knowledge is in SaaS tools for small …
Company Healthline.com Industry WordPress Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story Got caught stealing cigarettes from a gas station when I was 12. My parents grounded me for a year. Internet was just becoming wide spread, this was around 1995/1996. I was stuck at home so I learned to build websites on angelfire and …
Company Kinsta Industry Hosting Time in this Industry 5-7 Years Origin Story Early in my career, I went to work for a company that manufactured custom-engineered mechanical equipment. While I enjoyed the role and learned quite a bit, the industry was well-established and slow-moving, and I worried that opportunities for advancement would be few and …
Company NOC.org Industry Networking Services Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story Oh gosh, where to even begin.. the most relevant to this industry probably starts around 2009. Prior to that I was in tech, but I was a Defense contractor working on government projects and systems. It was in 2009 that I was …
Company Anchor Hosting Industry Hosting Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story It all started back in 2008. While working a full-time job as an IT consultant, I began building WordPress sites during nights and weekends for something fun to do. The first few sites were for folks who already knew me through my …
Company Ask WP Girl, LLC Industry WordPress Time in this Industry 11+ Years Origin Story It’s a long story, but I was building websites in HTML tables back in the day. I took a class in CSS one night, and at the end, the instructor mentioned WordPress. I went home that night and tried the …