We are happy to announce that Allen Moore will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh 2014! Allen’s session will be about The Art of Untethering: How Is Your Work/Life Balance? and will be on the Power Users track.

Allen is a Design Engineer at 10up, a full service digital agency that makes web publishing and content management simple and fun. Allen has been designing and developing websites since he bought his first computer in 1997. He discovered WordPress in 2005, with the goal of providing a simple publishing platform for his clients. He tested different Content Management Systems, but the learning curve for publishers made WordPress stand above the rest.

Prior to 10up, Allen was a WordPress Developer at NC State University (2012 – 2014), and a freelance designer and developer for the first eight years of his career.

When he is not in front of a computer, Allen spends time with his wife Karoline and his dog George. He loves a good book, cup of coffee, pint of local beer, and cigars & Scotch. Allen is an avid guitarist and vocalist of over 20 years.

Join us at WordCamp Raleigh to meet Allen and learn more about using WordPress to improve your professional life as well as your personal life.

We’re happy to announce that RC Lations will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh. RC will be speaking to the Developers and will cover Using Data to Power The User Experience.

RC Lations is a WordPress Project Manager at Hall Internet Marketing in Portland, ME. He spends most of his days working with clients to turn wish lists into functional, elegant websites tuned for performance. In his spare time, he contributes to WordPress Core, Scaffolding.io, and has a few plugins in development.

We’re pleased to announce that Jeff Matson will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh 2014. Jeff’s session will be on the Power Users track and is titled Stop Eating Resources and Optimize Your WordPress Site.

Jeff Matson is a technical content writer and SEO for InMotion Hosting, specializing in WordPress-related tutorials and news. His content reaches millions of users and has been featured on sites such as Post Status and WP Tavern. In his off time, he hosts the WordPress After Hours Google Hangout on Friday nights with Jeff Chandler for uncensored, unrecorded, WordPress shenanigans.

We’re very happy to announce that Melodie Laylor will be joining us again this year to speak at WordCamp Raleigh 2014. A veteran of WordCamp Raleigh, Melodie will be speaking to the Beginners and her session will cover More (Mis)adventures in Nonprofit Web Design, a follow up to her talk from two years ago.

Melodie discovered her inner geek working part-time in the computer lab while pursuing a music degree in college. She’s been working with computers and Internet technology ever since. She married a geek guy and they went into business troubleshooting and repairing computers. Along the way they had four geektastic kids. Melodie discovered WordPress in 2007, fell in love with it and never looked back. She launched out as a freelance web designer in 2010, and has been an organizer of the WordPress Hampton Roads Meetup since 2011. Melodie and her husband are now partners in PajamaWeb, a web design venture.

We’re happy to announce that Jordan Cauley will be joining us as a speaker for WordCamp Raleigh 2014. Jordan’s session is for the developers and will be about Getting Started with Gulp.js.

Jordan leads the development team at Cuberis, bringing to the table a wealth of knowledge in both coding and strategic communications. Prior to Cuberis, Jordan worked in a multitude of industries as a freelance developer and has a portfolio that includes more than 70 websites. When Jordan isn’t elbow-deep in code, he’s sharing his knowledge on the magic of the Internet and mobile applications with the rest of the team.

We’re happy to announce that Dee Teal will be speaking at WordCamp Raleigh 2014. Dee will be speaking about Responsible [digital] Home Ownership on the Power Users track.

In Dee’s words:
I’m a Genesis WordPress web developer, community organiser, trainer, blogger and all round WordPress enthusiast who is passionate about imparting that same enthusiasm to community members, clients and trainees. I have graduated from USYD with a Masters Degree in Digital Communication and Culture and have been working with WordPress full time since 2009 (and with other technologies for some time before that).

I’m the girl behind WordChicks, Melbourne’s all-women WordPress meet-up (and made it onto this list with other awesome WordPress Women), and one half of the team who put together PressJam, a WordPress for good ‘rapid build’ event in 2013. I’ve also been the proud leader of amazing teams who made the awesome WordCamps Melbourne 2013 and Sydney 2012. I’m also a WP Tuts author – and if that wasn’t enough WordPress for you, I’m training beginning (and advanced) WordPress users for City Desktop and elsewhere as people need.

Come to WordCamp Raleigh to meet Dee and learn how to keep your WordPress site secure and healthy.