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James is a traditional graphic designer (print) by trade turned developer over the past decade. The Kool-Aide design and tech drink was the preferred consumption of choice early in his career. Diving into any hot piece of technology that helped build the web. Everything from WordPress, Drupal, Squarespace, React.js, Angular.js, Vue.js, etc. was the norm.

Primary clients of focus are mainly in the education, health, government, and non-profit space. The old days of creating websites to sell a pair of shoes during a new campaign season are in the past. What drives James’s passion these days, is by assisting client’s needs in elevating their business whose mission is to help out a community or society as a whole. Building for a cause.

When not being a robot by day, James spends his time being a human during nights and weekends with his son and wife: watching movies, playing board games, and video games, and cooking random food recipes from oldie cookbooks dug up from yard sales.

WordPress Origin Story

Throughout his journey, he’s worked at various companies from small-scale start-ups to large enterprise-level corporations. Learning the ropes of how organizations function and discovering what’s needed to drive a project from kick-off to completion. Lately, with a bit of grey wisdom to share, we fast forward to more recent times, James has come full circle by choosing WordPress as the go-to development platform of choice for any client who needs a good web presence. A late bloomer in interacting with the WordPress community, but a longtime user of WordPress in general.

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Meetup Organizer '24 WordCamp Organizer '24 WordCamp Speaker '24

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Front End Developer
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December 2024
Dec 15 Sun · 02:12
Meta high
Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Montclair, NJ, USA 2025
September 2024
Sep 16 Mon · 00:51
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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Rochester, NY 2024
February 2024
Feb 06 Tue · 20:22
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Created ticket #7444 on Meta Trac:
Meta Trac WordPress Search Bar Visual Issue In Browsers
Feb 01 Thu · 23:11
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Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Montclair New Jersey 2024