Na een dag werken aan WordPress is het op zaterdag 2 september tijd om elkaar nog meer te leren over WordPress en alles daar omheen. We stellen jullie daarom graag voor aan de sprekers van WordCamp Nijmegen. Dit doen we in vijf berichten. Dit is het vierde bericht uit de serie.
Michelle Foolen
Michelle is van origine psycholoog maar heeft anderhalf jaar geleden de overstap gemaakt naar Yoast. Hier werkt ze als SEO Consultant en geeft ze klanten advies over hoe ze het beste hun website kunnen optimaliseren voor zowel bezoekers als Google.
Yvette Sonneveld
Yvette Sonneveld works with owners of small and medium sized businesses who want to generate leads, clients and revenue using inbound marketing strategies. She fell in love with inbound marketing because it is based on the principles of helping existing and potential clients to know, like and trust you. Therefore, one of her favorite strategies is to help create content that spotlights both the business owner and some key staff members in a way that radiates both their personality and expertise. In order to make all this inbound marketing magic happen, she uses a secret recipe that includes ingredients such as training, coaching, consultancy and hands on assistance. Yvette specializes in real estate and financial services but has also successfully worked with clients in retail, consultancy and holistic healthcare.
Yvette has been using WordPress since 2006. At that time it took almost 9 months to get hand coded websites listed with Google. As soon as she learned WordPress sites got listed within 24 hours, she created her first WordPress site, it did get listed within 24 hours and she never looked back.
Yvette’s first time volunteering at a WordCamp was in 2014, in Miami. This year, she intends to volunteer with at least 3 WordCamps and she has added both contributing to the marketing team and being a speaker to the mix.
Juliette Reinders Folmer
Juliette Reinders Folmer is an all round consultant and web-developer who tries not be a geek. Juliette is a long-standing member of PHPWomen which helped her immensely to find her feet in the PHP world. She is ZCE, actively contributes to a number of open source projects, is the creator of the PHP Cheatsheets website, gives IT training and speaks at conferences when given the chance. She loves it when you give her a chance to refactor spaghetti-code to something elegant and maintainable.
Juliette is self-employed and based in the Netherlands.
Hristo Pandjarov
Hristo has been working for SiteGround as a WordPress expert for more than eight years now. He’s done it all: supported WordPress clients, built websites, designed WordPress themes. In addition to that he’s author of many online tutorials and guides about WordPress. He’s been fortunate to have his passion for all things WordPress and his job overlap at SiteGround, where he develops and implements various in-house performance boost solutions to help make WordPress websites faster and more secure.
Alain Schlesser
Alain is a freelance software engineer and WordPress consultant living in Germany.
He started out as a government agent working in prison administration in Luxembourg, and has recently made the switch to self-employment to enjoy productive work without the bureaucratic hurdles.
He has worked with numerous platforms and programming languages for the past 25 years, and is now trying to settle down on modern web development with the WordPress platform. He is passionate about software architecture and code quality and never misses an opportunity to share best practices.
He offers his WordPress services and expertise through his company Bright Nucleus, while you can catch some of his more personal ramblings at https://www.alainschlesser.com.