WordCamp Lancaster Speakers: Third Wave

WordCamp Lancaster proudly announces the third wave of confirmed speakers. Join us March 14th in Lancaster, Pennsylvania for a full day of learning and celebrating WordPress, the software that powers 33% of the web. One ticket is $25, and two tracks of presentations deliver value to web professionals of all skill levels.

AJ Morris

AJ Morris is the Product Innovation and Marketing Manager for iThemes, a WordPress plugin and training company that helps businesses, bloggers, and freelancers protect their investments in their sites. He spends most of his time helping store or site builders solve challenging problems through online education and consulting with businesses build digital storefronts.
Erik Teichmann

Erik has been a freelance WordPress developer since 2008, with a specialty in helping nonprofits tell their stories. He currently works as a WordPress developer with Inverse Paradox of Langhorne, Pennsylvania.
Jonathan Bentz

Senior Digital Marketing Strategist Jonathan Bentz leads vital SEO projects for Direct Online Marketing (DOM) in Pittsburgh, PA.

Jonathan’s journey as a thought leader in SEO began back in his West Virginia University (WVU) days, where he received a degree in journalism. Following a decade of experience running digital marketing campaigns in agency settings and competitive industries like hospitality and cloud technology, Jonathan signed on with DOM to significantly contribute to its growing SEO client services.

Immediately after his arrival, he integrated corporate branding and voice with SEO. Jonathan’s SEO approach isn’t near-sighted or trapped in any trendy bubbles. It’s an all-encompassing strategy devised to bolster each brand with natural web authority.

Over the years, Google has evolved into an artificial intelligence-driven trust machine. If your site isn’t building brand trust with Google, it’s probably dying.

Jonathan believes strongly in technical analysis, but not needlessly complicated site renovations. You’ve built a fantastic product or service; our team’s job is to ensure that your site’s SEO technical attributes are on point.

An SEO campaign isn’t about traffic volume; it’s about traffic volume that creates revenue. For Jonathan, this means a sophisticated site analysis that extracts data and metrics about backlinks, competition, and revenue-oriented keywords. Through a discerning look at these factors, Jonathan and his team can forge a sensible way forward for the brand.

Jonathan’s expert SEO analysis has been published in prominent publications such as Entrepreneur.com, Ecommerce Times, and CIO Online.

In his free time, Bentz serves on the leadership team at his church. He is committed to creating new economic opportunities for underserved communities and uplifting those areas for children and future generations. He also enjoys spending time with his young children and family.

He grew up in Lancaster, PA, and graduated from Penn Manor High School prior to attending WVU. He returned to the area in 2008 as the second outside hire for Grant Street internet marketing agency Lupeer and also served as the first in-house marketing manager for Harrisburg IT services provider Netrepid before relocating to the Pittsburgh area and leading the SEO team at DOM.
Kim White

Kim White has been a web developer for over twenty years building websites and web-based applications for advertising agencies, non-profit organizations as well as small to medium-sized businesses.

Kim has been using WordPress since 2008 and is the Co-organizer of the Lehigh Valley Meetup and Lehigh Valley WordCamp. She has been part of the organizing team of WCUS for the last 3 years.

Recently, Kim joined the support team at Paid Memberships Pro.
Mike Auteri

Mike Auteri (@mauteri) is a Senior Software Engineer at Penske Media Corporation (PMC) who leads development for many well-known publishing brands on WordPress.com VIP. He’s contributed a few lines of code to WordPress core, written a couple plugins, presented at meetups/WordCamps, and is a co-organizer of the WordPress Montclair Meetup and lead organizer of WordCamp Montclair 2020. A New Jersey native, Mike lives not 4 blocks from a house featured in the Sopranos. Mike is a fan of good beer, hot sauce, and an avid fencer.
Stephen Kriso

Stephen has been involved with WordPress for over 10 years and has experience with web development and management for 20. He also has experience in video and audio production and editing. His passion and expertise are in strategic business planning and digital brand building. He is a graduate of the Disney Institute and a WP Elevation member for WordPress consultants. He also has his own Digital Media consulting agency, Stag Media Consulting.
Tara Claeys

Tara Claeys began her career in advertising and marketing in the early 1990’s. After her first child was born, she supplemented her full-time job as Mom with illustration and stationery design for clients around the world. Her extensive marketing background and understanding of business quickly became her focus. Founded in 2010, Design TLC, specializes in websites and digital marketing for small schools, enrichment programs, camps and education-focused nonprofits.