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With nearly 25 years of experience in IT and web design, Chris has been designing websites for almost as long as the internet has been around. Starting in the education sector, creating websites, and managing IT for a selection of schools, Chris never considered that web design might be his future career – until an opportunity came along.

After creating a free website for his landscaper in 2014, Chris soon saw the potential for website creation as a career and, since 2016, has run Light Bulb Web Design full-time without ever looking back.

Carlos is a Joomla volunteer who works as web consultant for Joomla, PrestaShop and WordPress projects.

Carlos has recently published the book "Developing Extensions for Joomla! 5" to help people start developing extensions for Joomla.

For me Joomla has been a hobby for a long time - since 2008. In 2019 I  became as a Joomla extensions developer and now develop and maintain more than 70 free extensions for Joomla (see https://web-tolk.ru). Some of them are available in the Joomla Extensions Directory.

I am one of the moderators of the Russian-speaking Joomla community in Telegram. I publish posts on the Joomla Feed Telegram news channel in Russian, write Joomla digests and articles about Joomla development.

Husband. Father of 3 children.

RytechSites
Owner, Developer, Freelance

Certified Joomla Administrator, Nov 2017

Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
School of Arts and Sciences
Web Developer

Laura Gordon currently works full time at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, School of Arts and Sciences as a web developer. She along with her team manage over 120 Joomla! websites.

Laura began using Joomla! in 2005 building her first website for a nursery school. As the owner of her own freelance company Laura has trained hundreds of users over the users, and has built many Joomla websites from Public Libraries to Pizza places. She runs the Joomla User Group of NJ since 2013.  Visit JoomlaUsersNJ.com for more details.  She was an instructor with JoomlaTraining.com from 2009 - 2011 where she gave in person classes in NYC.

In 2017 she was invited to attend the Joomla World Conference in Italy, and became officially certified as a Joomla Administrator.

She lives in East Brunswick, NJ with her husband Ira, and 2 boys, who are now 20 and 17. As a fun note, her husband owns, ThrillCoastertours.com, he takes kids to amusement parks during the summer time...

She always looks forward to giving back to the Joomla Community that has given her the opportunity to meet some amazing people and work with a great product, that keeps giving back!

• 2009 - Chaired - Joomla Day NYC
• 2011 - Chaired -Joomla Day NYC
• 2012 - Chaired - Joomla Day NYC
• 2009 - 2019 - Chaired JoomlaCamp NYC Annually
• 2011 - Presented at Joomla Day New England
• 2013 - Presented Joomla World Conference - Boston
• 2017 - VET Participant at Joomla World Conference - Italy
• 2019 - Presented Joomla Day Florida
• 2020 - Participated in Forum for the Future with Joomla - Spain

Laura is a member of the Joomla volunteer and engagement team with Joomla and the Educational & Outreach Working Group.

To learn more about the Training Initiatives Laura is working on, visit: teens4opensource.com

Louise has been a Joomla volunteer since February 2022, when she joined the Marketing Team to assist with graphic design. She then went onto become Marketing Lead and then was elected Outreach DC in September 2023. 

Louise is passionate about helping small businesses be more visible online through search engine optimisation. Her business, Oyster SEO is based in the coastal town of Whitstable in Kent, offers SEO services and new website builds using Joomla.

Hi! I'm Crystal, the Founder and UX Engineer of Lucid Fox, a small website design studio which builds research-backed websites for nonprofit organizations.

I've been building websites for years and have spent time in agencies as a front end developer, web designer, and UX researcher. I was first introduced to the Joomla community in 2014, and never looked back!