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Anthony D Paul

Traveling UX Researcher and Futurist at GE

@anthonydpaul Atlanta, GA joined Jan 2009

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    Bio

    By day, I’m a user experience researcher, designer, and prototyper. By night, you’ll find me spread across the DC and Baltimore meetup scenes—notably at events for UX, accessibility, and a variety of open source development projects. I live and work in the DC/Baltimore corridor, offering strategic, design, and full-stack development skills to clients large and small, spanning government, non-profit, and commercial. I’d tell you about my cool side projects, or divulge something funny from my past, but these days the Internet does a better job of surfacing our embarrassing moments; find me anywhere by Googling “anthonydpaul”.

    Interests

    UX (accessibility, usability testing, research), IA (story-mapping, wireframes, documentation), UI (sketching, design, prototypes), full-stack development (PHP/MySQL, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, WordPress, Joomla), tech community (conference speaker, meetup organizer, blogger), traveling foodie and hobbyist farmer (hot sauce, BBQ)

    WordPress Origin Story

    I installed WordPress for the first time with Miles Davis (1.0) in early 2004 for my student design club. I’d dabbled in it prior to that, teaching myself PHP/MySQL through extending/hacking WordPress and PHPBB. Since then, I’ve used WordPress along with other PHP CMSes, to launch hundreds of sites. In 2008, the agency I worked for moved into a new space with a great meetup venue. I invited DC PHP, WordPress DC, and DC jQuery (now DCJS) to use our space and became a meetup organizer. That quickly snowballed into meetup speaker, WordCamp speaker, and WordCamp organizer.

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    WordCamp Organizer '19 WordCamp Speaker '17
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    Training Contributor '19

    Current Job

    Traveling UX Researcher and Futurist
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    GE

    Recent impact

    Score weights high-impact work (commits, releases, approved translations, props) at 3x routine activity.

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    April 2017
    Apr 26 Wed · 19:27
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    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Chicago 2017
    February 2017
    Feb 13 Mon · 21:21
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    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Chicago 2017
    November 2016
    Nov 12 Sat · 22:36
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    Wrote a new post, Closing party featured artist: Jacob Panic, on the site WordCamp Baltimore 2016:
    A couple months ago, I was serendipitously discovering Edith Mae's Paradise, a private music venue down…
    September 2016
    Sep 12 Mon · 19:58
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    Joined the organizing team for WordCamp Baltimore 2016
    August 2016
    Aug 30 Tue · 05:54
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    Wrote a new post, Call for Volunteers, on the site WordCamp Baltimore 2016:
    Volunteers are the backbone of any great WordCamp. You’ll be helping to make our event…
    Aug 19 Fri · 02:52
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    Wrote a new post, Tickets, on the site WordCamp Baltimore 2016:
    Tickets for WordCamp Baltimore are not yet on sale, but will open up by Friday,…
    Aug 18 Thu · 12:48
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    Wrote a new post, Call for Sponsors, on the site WordCamp Baltimore 2016:
    Have you have benefited from using WordPress? Now is the perfect time to give something back —…
    Aug 18 Thu · 12:46
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    Wrote a new post, Call for Speakers, on the site WordCamp Baltimore 2016:
    It’s official! The call for speakers is now open! WordCamp Baltimore is back for it's…
    July 2016
    Jul 12 Tue · 19:11
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    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Toronto 2016
    May 2016
    May 15 Sun · 01:50
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    Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Ottawa 2016