Glenn Ansley is an owner / developer at Full Throttle Development, based in Wake Forest, NC. Although he received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in the area of religion, his love for learning new skills and problem solving made web programming a natural fit. While working on his master’s degree, Glenn obtained a job in the IT industry as a desktop technician. Between changing printer cartridges and showing secretaries how to restart their computers, Glenn taught himself PHP, MySQL, and began developing web sites with WordPress. After receiving the opportunity to redesign one of his graduate school’s sites with WordPress, he was transferred to the development office where he continued to pursue his PHP skills along with other
web technologies.

After earning his master’s degree, Glenn moved into full time freelance development, starting FullThrottle as a sole proprietorship. After successfully earning a living developing WordPress plugins for a year and a half, he has now gone into business with four other developers. FullThrottle continues to create high quality websites for businesses and organizations as well as custom WordPress plugins for those who need to extend the functionality of
WordPress.

Glenn is excited to be presenting “WordPress as a Factory: The Fundamentals of Plugin Development” at WordCampRDU. He knows first hand the chore it can be to transition from making minor WordPress tweaks to extending its functionality in the most efficient and future proof manner. He is excited to share his own mistakes and successes with other RDU WordPressers.

Glenn and his wife Kriste live outside of Raleigh, NC with their two daughters. Most of their spare time is spent with family and friends.

http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/
http://twitter.com/full_throttle
http://www.linkedin.com/in/lewayotte

Lew Ayotte is an owner, developer, and systems administrator for FullThrottle Development. He has over 10 years of experience in the IT field as a developer and systems administrator. Being interested in computers since his first tape based system, he started taking programming classes in High School where he learned BASIC and C++. He expanded his knowledge of high and low level programming languages at the University of Maine. While working for an ISP in Maine as a Unix Systems Administrator he taught himself PERL and has since taught himself VB.Net, PHP, ASP, and other similar programming languages.

Spending the majority of his career working as a systems admin has allowed him the flexibility of maintaining various servers, learning new services and technologies, and developing his programming skills. Lew was first introduced to Wordpress over three years ago and has been in love with it ever since. Now he and his company specialize in custom Wordpress development, from themes to plugins as well as other various web technologies. In his spare time, he and his wife enjoy hanging out with their two beagles and seven cats. They also enjoy going to the ballet, blogging, watching baseball, and their favorite TV show, Lost!

Lew is excited to be speaking about “The Basics of WordPress Mu” and plans on touching on subjects like the installation process, plugin management, and the future of WordPress Mu.

http://fullthrottledevelopment.com/
http://twitter.com/full_throttle

Alan Knox is an owner and web developer for Full Throttle Development. He started working professionally in software development in 1983 as a junior in high school. After completing a master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering, he continued to design and
develop software and hardware systems, from high speed image processing and embedded controllers to database and web applications.
Alan has focused on web development for the past 7 years, and he began working with WordPress around three years ago. He is married to his elementary school sweetheart - although they waited until after high school to marry - and they have two children and two dogs. Alan and his family make their home in Youngsville, NC.

Alan is speaking on the topic “Implementing WordPress in Corporate and Educational Environments”. Some of the strengths of WordPress include its flexibility and customizability. There are many applications of WordPress in both the corporate world and in educational institutions.

Custom Web Design and WordPress Development

http://fullthrottledevelopment.com
info@fullthrottledevelopment.com
http://twitter.com/full_throttle
(919) 522-1532

FullThrottle Development is a web design firm based in Raleigh, NC. Serving businesses and non-profit organizations, our high quality web sites are customized to the needs of each individual client. While our developers have an unmatched level of expertise in a variety of web technologies and mediums, we specialize in WordPress development. This includes custom installations, theme design, plugin development, and security audits. In addition to our web development solutions, we also provide logo and branding development, web and email hosting, and systems administration.

FullThrottle is owned and operated by a team of five highly qualified developers and system administrators that have a 7 year history together as a development team in a corporate / education environment. This unique composition of skills and communication has already become the foundation of multiple long term contract positions where FullThrottle provides businesses with an outsourced and dedicated development department.

Whether you or your organization is looking to contract a single project or develop a lasting relationship, FullThrottle Development is your solution to obtaining highly qualified and professional development services. Learn more about us and our services at http://fullthrottledevelopment.com

Chris Gatewood is a lawyer who works in the areas of new media, intellectual property, and software licensing. He is based in Richmond, at the firm of Hirschler Fleischer. At WordCamp, Chris will discuss legal issues frequently encountered by bloggers, such as employment issues, defamation and libel, copyright, and First Amendment matters. You can find him at the firm’s web site at hf-law.com, or on Twitter @gatewood5000.

Andy Beal Consulting
Andy Beal on Twitter
Andy Beal on Friendfeed
Andy Beal on LinkedIn

Andy Beal is an internet marketing consultant specializing in search engine optimization and marketing.  Andy is also a trusted authority on the topics of  online reputation management, and business blogging. Considered one of the world’s most respected online marketing experts, Andy has worked with many top companies such as Motorola, GlaxoSmithKline, SAS, Lowes, Quicken Loans, and NBC. His current project is the online reputation monitoring tool Trackur.

Highly respected as a source of internet marketing advice, Andy Beal has had articles published around the world, including BusinessWeek Online, Search Engine Watch, Search Engine Guide, and Web Pro News. He is the co-author of the critically acclaimed online reputation management book Radically Transparent.

Andy Beal is constantly keeping up-to-date with search engine news and online marketing developments and has appeared on ABC News, CNBC and NPR (National Public Radio) and has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Business Week, The Washington Post, and many other publications. Approaching internet marketing from a unique, easy to understand perspective, Andy Beal has also been invited to speak at conferences held around the world. Andy received a nomination for the 2006 Fast 50 and was named to the Triangle Business Journal’s 2006 “40 Under 40? and the Top 40 most influential people in search for 2007.

http://softduit.com
http://Something-About-Harry.com
http://MavenMappersInformation.com

Brett entered social media building on 18 years of experience in sales, intelligence, process management, finance, accounting & contracts.

He left the high rise corporate world and an office with a view of a man made pond in Buckhead, for a Cove on Lake Wylie across from Charlotte, NC where a WiFi connection and an international airport keep him connected to the world..

In 2005, Brett began working as a business developer, web designer, blogger, & blog marketer. Writing intelligence estimates & strategy recommendations for Army Intelligence & Fortune 500 companies lent itself well to writing blog articles, & a double major in finance & accounting + a master’s in tax law didn’t hurt.

He has developed social media campaigns for Izod, Digital River & Nuance makers of Dragon Naturally Speaking. He has provided blog consulting services for CEOs of firms in Ireland, New York, Belize, Las Vegas, Burbank, Toronto & many more. He works with clients to increase their customer relationships & attract new business through social media.

Brett speaks at conferences around the country helping other businesses, bloggers and web designers profitably expand their success with social media.  He is also a product evangelist, trainer & blogger for WindowsLiveWriter, MindManager, Dragon Naturally Speaking, Artisteer & WordPress. He covers consumer electronics, software, social media, solar power, personal finance, politics & comedy.  A Jack of all trades turned professional philosopher.

Brett’s presentation will be on using WordPress as a CMS (Content Management System).

http://www.goodtreecompany.com/

Hal Goodtree is President of Goodtree & Co., Inc., a digital arts studio in Cary, NC. He has created more than three dozen blogs for business, medicine, real estate, advocacy and the arts. Mr. Goodtree helped launch NFL.com in 2000 and is the recipient of a Cannes Lion and an Emmy award for his work as a television producer.

Hal’s presentation topic is:  “Intro to Blogging with WordPress:  Get started with WordPress. Learn how to create quality posts, use pictures, links, tags and plugins to create a professional content stream.”

http://wayne-sutton.com/
http://socialwayne.com/
http://waynesutton.tv/
http://talksocialnews.com/
http://tweetshops.com/

Wayne Sutton is pretty much Twitter king in the Triangle area (and beyond).  He is also no stranger to WordPress.  Think of Mr. Sutton as your guide through all things social media related.  For over five years he has provided counsel to business leaders ranging from founders of small start-ups and representatives of non-profit organizations to CEOs of large and small corporations. No matter if it is social media strategy, Web apps, blogs or new ways to use mobile technology, (cause he is also an iPhone fanatic!) Wayne is sure to be in the know about the most up-to-date information, best-practices and industry standards for digital/online communities.

Wayne will be conducting a “mini” Tweetshop during WordCampRDU. This mini Tweetshop will be WordPress-centric and will help beginner and advanced users alike, focus on the best ways to incorporate Twitter into any WordPress blog.