General
| Name | idealien |
| About Me | Whether it is helping customers automate their business processes through his work with Rocket Genius (Gravity Forms, Gravity Flow and Gravity Experts), or creating custom t-shirts, woodworking and other bespoke products from his workshop with Idealien Studios, Jamie always brings a creative and enthusiastic perspective with him. He learned layout and design from first principles – in no small part to growing up with a Vandercook proof printing press in the basement. As the technology for print changed to digital, so did his skillset with a first resume job doing student newspaper production layout in Quark XPress while getting his Bachelor of Commerce degree at Carleton University. When content and commerce shifted to online tooling he levelled up his digital skills again. First, by helping Lee Valley Tools launch their eCommerce site, followed by deploying multiple WordPress projects within the Canada Post Group of Companies as a mix of analyst, developer and process automation expert. He is equally capable and comfortable working with small business clients to help them scale their limited resources as he is with getting enterprise-scale initiatives to deliver solutions to their staff and customers in a cost-effective manner. Jamie has contributed to WP core, presented multiple times at WordCamps around Ontario, and now is enjoying helping to instigate the inaugural WordCamp Canada eh! |
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| Current Location | Ottawa, Ontario |
| WordPress Origin Story | I discovered WP in its’ “blue admin period” around version 2.1. I saw the potential immediately and by WP 3.0 I knew there was no going back. There’s more to this origin story which I look forward to sharing, but will wait to tell the tale either in person, over a beer or on a podcast or when someone asks directly about it. |
