Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and Graphic Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. During sun-soaked days he works at a top-five transit agency, fighting the good fight to ease gridlock around Los Angeles County. When their lead developer and CSS specialist both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history. Over ten years later, he manages a WordPress blog network consisting of dozen project-specific or transit news sites and growing.
Faced with a life-altering heart event in 2017, he pivoted on all things WordPress, leveraging his creative past, teaching tech, and truly giving back by sharing a motivating story of re-igniting your dreams. He actively contributes the WordPress Community, founding the WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup, speaking or volunteering at WordCamps. As the lead organizer his brainchild, WordCamp Santa Clarita, was the first WordCamp north of Los Angeles and south of San Francisco in over five years.