Joe A. Simpson, Jr. is a Front-End Web Developer and Graphic Designer specializing in WordPress solutions. During days he works at a top-five transit agency, fighting the good fight to ease the commute around Los Angeles County. When their lead developer and CSS specialist both left to pursue other opportunities, Joe inherited a Headway-themed design (sans child theme) and the rest is history ten years later with a blog network consisting of dozen project-specific or transit news sites.
Faced with a life-altering event last summer, he pivoted on leveling up WordPress, leveraging his creative past, talking tech and giving back. He actively contributes the Community, founding the WordPress Santa Clarita Valley Meetup and volunteering at WordCamps.
He’s eager to borrow someone’s winter wool in Chicago — he left his full-length coat in the rearview mirror when moving from blustery Highland Park, Michigan over twenty years ago for the Gateway to the Grapevine, Castaic, California.