Joe A Simpson Jr

Senior Digital Administrator, Metro Los Angeles

Biography

Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and User-Experience Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. He is also a SiteGround Ambassador.

During endless, sun-soaked days he works at Metro Los Angeles, one of the largest transit agencies in the country, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. When their Lead Developer and CSS goddess both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history. 

Over thirteen years later, he manages a growing WordPress blog network consisting of dozen project-specific or transit news sites. He brings expertise in Search Engine Optimization and Accessibility to Metro's Digital Strategy team.

Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted, focusing FIRST on doing the things he truly loved -- WordPress, creative passions, teaching tech, and truly giving back. He actively contributes to the WordPress Community, founding the WordPress Santa Clarita Valley and Elementor Santa Clarita Valley Meetups, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps, and is the Lead Organizer for WordCamp Santa Clarita. 

In April 2019, fifteen months after getting back into the WordPress Community, he became Lead Organizer for his brainchild, WordCamp Santa Clarita, the first WordCamp north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco in over five years.

Speaking Experience

  • Lead Organizer, WordCamp Santa Clarita Online April 18, 2020
  • Speaker, WordCamp Riverside, November 8-10, 2019
  • Moderator (UnConference), WordCamp US, November 1-3, 2019
  • Volunteer (Make WordPress event), WordCamp US, November 1-3, 2019
  • Speaker, WordCamp Long Beach, October 5-6, 2019
  • Speaker, WordCamp Las Vegas, September 7-8, 2019
  • Speaker, WordCamp Grand Rapids, July 13, 2019
  • Lead Organizer, WordCamp Santa Clarita April 5-6, 2019
  • Speaker, WordCamp Phoenix, February 17-19, 2019
  • Volunteer (Emcee), WordCamp US, December 2018
  • Speaker, WordCamp Los Angeles September 21-23, 2018
  • Speaker, WordCamp Orange County June 9-10, 2018
  • Speaker, WordCamp Chicago April 28-29, 2018
  • Founder, Wordpress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup
  • Instructor (Volunteer), Tech Talk SCV (4 years) teaching tech topics to the community at Santa Clarita Public Library (Old Town Branch)
  • Toastmaster, Int'l (7 years), Advanced Toastmaster Silver (over twenty-five total speeches). Held offices of President (2 terms), Vice-President Public Relations (2 terms)

Connect & Follow

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http://instagram.com/joesimpsonjr