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Ron Amick

@ronamick on WordPress.org, @Ron Amick on Slack

Bio

Ron Amick is a creature with two heads. He can write code and content, edit film and ad copy, and speak both digital and analogue. With an engineer father and painter mother, Ron always had an affinity for both technology and art. His misspent youth was dedicated to making short films which, through no fault of his own, landed him at USC film school. After stints working as a producer and editor at several studios and post-production houses, he landed at Disney New Technology and New Media, which ignited a love for web development. Moving from entertainment to tech was less of a pivot than a way to combine his interest in computers with his passion for storytelling. Since then Ron has learned (and forgotten) more software than is reasonable (Flash, anyone?) and worked with many creative agencies, tech companies, and entertainment clients to create websites, mobile apps, games, books, ecommerce stores and more. “It’s hard being both a geek and a nerd,” says Ron, “but who are you if you don’t even try?”

Interests

Teaching while learning and the reverse, hiking amongst California’s tall trees and mountains, punishing the ill-humored with puns, media-making in any form, reading mostly fiction, entertaining people and making people laugh even if it’s at my expense.

WordPress Origin Story

In the Dark Ages of Internet before WordPress, I was Intranet Production Editor at The Walt Disney Company, helping create a company-wide publishing platform for disseminating New Technology & New Media developments and knowledge. That custom publishing application was a precursor to WordPress in many ways, using a database backend to dynamically feed the intranet front end. That intrigued me. I had prior experience using Filemaker Pro databases to manage movie footage that I was editing (in a prior career in Hollywood post production), and the idea of being able to paste the text of an article into a database record and have it pop up live on the site for Disney’s 120,000 employees (actually mostly just department heads and engineers) was quite supercalifragilisticexpialidocious, if you get me.

SO, when I discovered WordPress some ten years later, I was supercal-jazzed. As a web developer who came from content creation and media creation, I was stoked to be able to create a whole publishing machine for others (clients) and empower them to post their own content with relative ease.

Another five years after that, I discovered the WordPress community in the LA area and was once again blown away. I was, by then, mostly freelance with my own company (Lucky Cat Creative), still doing occasional contract work for Disney and also working at a number of Los Angeles-area creative agencies. But I was essentially working solo. Finding the WordPress Meetups and other events, and meeting the amazing peeps who proudly WordPress really opened up my world — it have me colleagues, resources, knowledge, energy — even clients, and was, like WordPress itself, a great bargain at the price of zero dinero. The rest is very likely to become history (stand by for that) . . .

Thanks, Matt. Thanks, WordPress. Oh yes, I would also like to thank the Academy.

  • Member Since: March 7th, 2019
  • Location: Greater Los Angeles, California USA
  • Website: luckycatcreative.com
  • Job Title: Creative Developer
  • Employer: Lucky Cat Creative
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  • Posted a reply to Persistent Error Message On Saving Any Post with “Show Calendar”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Thanks so much, Jonathan. I had not checked my own past work deeply enough, but…

  • Created a topic, Persistent Error Message On Saving Any Post with “Show Calendar”, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Love this calendar utility, but something has lately h…

  • Created a topic, Search Entire Media Library, on the site WordPress.org Forums:
    Hi Andrew et al, Many thanks for a useful plugin that …

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