Andy Wikel
Andrew Wikel is a WooCommerce ninja at Automattic. He is committed to open source values and loves working with WordPress. He fell in love with WordPress in 2008, and has been working with it in some capacity since then. A husband, a father, a WordCamp addict, a coffee snob, lover of shiny things, and a California native living in Illinois.
Colleen Kimball
Colleen is a Peoria area native who acts as Business Development Director at her family’s graphic design and printing business. She is a media junkie and loves to read, write, and dream big. While she uses her skills in content development and communication to grow the family business, she also puts her experience to work as a board member of the Peoria Irish Fest.
Keanan Koppenhaver
Keanan Koppenhaver is a Lead WP Developer with doejo, a WordPress VIP Partner Agency.
While at doejo, he has worked on baking WordPress into the publishing workflow of one of the largest investment news publications in the United State and helps maintain Tribune Media’s 42 local affiliates, all publishing through WordPress.
He is passionate about mentoring other developers as well as teaching people that WordPress can be more than just a blogging platform.
Tammy Finch
Tammy Finch is a website designer, social media consultant, and the founder of Web Services, Inc. in East Peoria, IL. She has been designing websites for over 17 years.
Tammy and her team currently manage and host several hundred WordPress websites and social profiles for her clients. A strong asset she provides is Online Reputation Management. Online Reputation Management is incredibly important to any industry and she shares tips on this topic on her blog and book.
She is an active member of the WordPress Chat Meet-up in Peoria, IL. Thankfully, she listened to her fellow WordPressers and she converted her website business from HTML sites to all WordPress about 5 years ago.
Zach Stepek
Zach specializes in eCommerce consulting and WooCommerce development, helping companies navigate the complexities of building and running their eCommerce marketplaces. He’s been building dynamic, data-driven websites since 1999 and has worked as a designer, developer and user experience architect. When he isn’t building websites, he’s a professional concert photographer and well-rounded geek.
Nile Flores
Nile Flores is a long time WordPress designer and Developer. While she grew up a military brat, she’s settled in the St. Louis metro east region. Nile blogs at Blondish.net, where she covers topics on WordPress, Blogging, SEO, Social Media, and Web Design.
She also loves contributing to WordPress, and that includes speaking at WordCamps across the United States. She loves helping people and supporting Open Source projects.
Nile founded and runs a 8,500 member Facebook group dedicated to helping WordPressers, called All About WordPress. In recent news, she became the 2014 and 2015 Community Choice Winner at the Small Business Influencer Awards, hosted by Small Business Trends. When Nile isn’t knee deep in coding and design, she’s spending time with her son, who is also a WordPress user.