WordCamp San Diego 2016 Admin Track Speakers
It took Erick a while to figure out what he wanted to be when he grew up, which led him through a few different careers. After experiments in audio engineering and accounting, he now works on Automattic’s VIP team, serving enterprise WordPress users. Erick lives near Los Angeles, loves craft beer, and longs for enough free time to go hiking in the mountains that surround LA. He blogs at Evan Scheingross
Evan is a proud native San Diegan who loves the surf, sand, and a good fish taco even more than he loves WordPress! His first experience with WordPress dates back to 2006, and he was immediately fascinated with its power and flexibility.
For the past 9 years, Evan has run his own web design, development, and consulting business drawing on a primarily local client base. He helps individuals and businesses alike establish a successful online presence through the creation of user-focused, goal-oriented websites that are engineered to produce results. Almost all of Evan’s websites are developed using WordPress, and most of them are built as completely custom themes. Over the years he’s run into more WordPress snafus and gotchas than he would probably care to admit, and he’s happy to share them with you in hopes of sparing you a few expletives or that feeling where you want to throw your laptop off a cliff.
You can check out Evan’s work and thoughts on all things web-related at evanwebdesign.com or follow him @evanwebdesign. Outside of the web world, Evan is a father to the cutest 15-month old boy in the world (though he admits he has some bias there), and a husband to a wonderful and supportive wife. He has too many interests and hobbies to list here, and too little time to pursue them.
Jarrett Gucci comes from a retail background that started at Home Depot in Buffalo NY as cashier and 18 months later was asked to be a project manager based out of Carson California with a goal of opening 12 stores in 14 months. This goal was accomplished. He has also been an area manager at Big Lots and Bed Bath and beyond. He left his very last retail career as a district manager at Linens & Things in 2007 to pursue a hobby of website development as hope he could make some money doing it. After 4 years of building and managing WordPress sites, he founded a company called WP Fix It and since 2011 his company has serviced over 30,000 WordPress support tickets. Something you may not know about Jarrett besides all this, is that when he was 15 his neighbor gave him a 1962 dodge dart and he completely took it apart and rebuilt it. 
Dustin Meza is the Director of Customer Experience Operations at WP Engine. He has been in the hosting industry for 7 years and has been with WP Engine for 2 years. At WP Engine, Dustin oversees many aspects of the WordPress platform including WordPress upgrades for over 100,000 WordPress installs. 
Join us on Saturday evening following WordCamp at 98 Bottles! 98 Bottles is a 21+ neighborhood bar with an extensive craft beer selection along with great wines, sake and creative Soju cocktails. We’re lucky to have the entire venue for our WordCamp attendees from 7 – 11 PM.