I am currently available for speaking engagements. My preference is to speak on more advanced technical topics in the front end development and WordPress areas. I have prepared presentations but will prepare fresh ones when requested.

If you are interested in me speaking at your event, please contact me at ryan@aspiringindie.com.

Recent Speaking Engagements

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WordCamp Atlanta: Speeding Up Site Development with Parent/Child Themes

January 8 and 9, 2010

The best, most efficient way to make WordPress themes nowadays is to use parent and child themes. This presentation is a conceptual introduction to the technique itself, as well as tips for how to make a robust parent theme, typically called a theme framework, to make creating themes for clients faster and more efficient.

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Screaming Monkeys, Fort Wayne IN: The Advantages of WordPress as a CMS

November 17, 2009

WordPress is typically, and unfortunately, thought to be “just for blogging”. This isn’t the case, at least not anymore. In this presentation I went over the ways WordPress fits the CMS bill, what makes it a very solid CMS, and a few best practices.

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Indie projects

I'm proud to say I work on the following projects:

Languages I work with

  • XHTML
  • CSS
  • Javascript (+ jQuery)
  • PHP
  • MySQL
  • Ruby on Rails
  • Objective-C

The GooRoo Network

By Ryan Imel on June 23, 2010

GooRoo is a network of training websites, currently featuring cooking and home repair training. Searching for how-to? You found it.

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Softcom

By Ryan Imel on June 21, 2010

Softcom is an enterprise-level CMS site, executed perfectly with WordPress.

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I’m David G Cohen

By Ryan Imel on June 21, 2010

David G. Cohen’s site was built to be a social aggregation tool rather than a traditional homepage. And that’s a good thing!

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WordCamp Atlanta Presentation: Parent and Child Themes

By Ryan Imel on January 10, 2010

It was a lot of fun being at WordCamp Atlanta this weekend, especially being able to introduce a nice room full of people to the concept of parent/child themes and hopefully pass along some tips for them to run with. And I’d like to say, before anything else—big thanks to Brandon Sheats and Tessa Horeheid, [...]

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Testimonial from Charles Hudson

By Ryan Imel on December 17, 2009

“Ryan developed the core WordPress theme that I have used for a number of conference and event websites. Ryan was able to quickly arrive at a design that I liked and demonstrated a good eye for design and a strong command of WordPress development. I was very pleased with the work and the short time [...]

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Testimonial from Andrew Hyde

By Ryan Imel on November 24, 2009

“Ryan is a joy to work with on projects. Clean code, met every deadline we had and was always looking for ways to improve the product. Would highly recommend him.” Andrew Hyde (re: this project)

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One project's worth

By Ryan Imel on November 22, 2009

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Testimonial from Shawn Johnston

By Ryan Imel on November 19, 2009

“Ryan Imel was quick, professional and knowledgeable about WordPress development through out project. The site is stable, well built and we’re very happy with it. There are a lot of bad developers out there and I can say without a doubt Ryan is one of the good ones.” Shawn Johnston, Blackwave Creative (re: this project)

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Screaming Monkeys Presentation: The Advantages of WordPress as a CMS

By Ryan Imel on November 17, 2009

It was great to be able to give a talk last night to the Screaming Monkeys web guild here in Fort Wayne on using WordPress as a CMS. Rather than force anyone to scribble down notes as I went, I’m dropping a few of my notes and recommended links up here for anyone to grab. [...]

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Testimonial from Tim Novinger

By Ryan Imel on October 22, 2009

“Ryan is an excellent WordPress developer who really knows the framework and CMS inside and out. He fit in perfectly with our team and I really haven’t any complaints about him or the services he provided us, and would recommend him to anyone I know.” Tim Novinger, The Nichols Co. (re: this project)

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