Speakers

Lesa Snider King

Lesa is on a mission to teach the world to create–and use!–better graphics. She’s a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto, and founder of the creative tutorial site GraphicReporter.com. Lesa is the author of Photoshop CS4: The Missing Manual (Pogue Press/O’Reilly) along with many video training titles including From Photo to Graphic Art and Practical Photoshop Elements (KelbyTraining.com), and Graphic Secrets for Business Professionals (Lynda.com). She writes regularly for Photoshop User (NAPP), Elements Techniques, and Macworld magazines. Lesa is also a corporate trainer and teaches at many conferences including Photoshop World, Macworld Expo, Graphics of the Americas, and the esteemed Santa Fe Workshops. You can catch her Graphics Tip of the Week live each Wednesday night on the Your Mac Life internet radio show, which she also co-hosts.

Janel Kesten

Janel is excited to be back for an extended round of Geek Girl Boot Camps! She returned to the Cape and New England Reprographics after receiving a B.F.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design. Since then she’s provided simple yet functional creative solutions to the business community. Janel regularly attends MacWorld and Photoshop World Conferences to stay ahead of the curve, but quickly realized many people were light years behind her. That’s when she decided to pass along her excitement for all things Adobe® and help educate her fellow Cape Codders in Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign classes at Sandwich Community School. For a smaller dose of tech goodies, check out her weekly Photoshop tips on @Bar, the Cape’s only technology blog.

Reiko Beach

When I first heard about Geek Girl Camp, I immediately wanted to know what I could do to get involved and help this great idea grow and help more women.  Tom and I started our company TRB Design, Inc. in 2002 to help companies grow their presence and marketing power on the web with leading internet strategies and video.  We host and manage several websites including our own GymSmarts, a site devoted to instructional gymnastics material, and GymSmartsCommunity, a blog community for gymnastic coaches.  Additionally we develop, host and manage many local and national sites, and develop and manage sites in Linkedin and Facebook, Youtube, and Flickr for companies.  With years of experience in travel marketing and promotion, organizing charitable organizations and events, managing youth sports teams I bring a diverse background to what our company can offer.  For Geek Girl Camps we offer our expertise in video for the web and Wordpress.  Keeping up with the latest technologies is a challenge, we do it by actively participating in great technology groups and events such as Podcamp Boston and Boston MediaMakers meetings, we have spoken at NewB Camp in Providence, and the South Shore Ad Club about video and social media.

Paula Hersey

Chief Penguin reporting for active duty at Geek Girl Boot Camp! As a self taught Geek Girl, I believe in sharing the wonders of technology with others and being a part of Geek Girl Boot Camp again this year offers me the opportunity to share my passion for all things Internet related and to help other women to take control of their technical chaos. After a fifteen year career in Retail Sales, Management and Marketing it was time to embark on the career I never dreamed of- owning my own Web Design and Development company, Penguin Digital Design. Using a multitude of skills from the retail world, and a life long thirst for knowledge, I began to teach myself the basics of computer repair/maintenance, HTML, Photoshop and Dreamweaver using on-line tutorials, books and videos. As the Internet is an ever evolving medium, it seems every day brings another exciting chance to learn how to present information on the web in a visually appealing and user friendly way. We help our clients understand how their website fits into their overall marketing and help them to understand how important a professional website can be to their existing and potential customers. I have the uncanny ability to communicate the most technologically complicated issues in “lay man’s terms’ and therefore have the talent to diminish the irrational fear people have of technology by making it user-friendly for them.

Julie Roads

Julie Roads is a marketing writer, blogger, consultant & speaker who thrives on helping you find your authentic voice & personal brand, and KEEP THEM, while you grow your business. Her company, Writing Roads, is a writing and marketing company that specializes in web content, blogs, social media and real relationship marketing. Julie holds a M.Ed. and has spoken at schools and universities across New England, including Middlebury College and Phillips Exeter. At Kripalu Center, the largest residential yoga center in the world, Julie led yoga and wellness workshops for 2 years and earned over 500 hours of teacher training certification. As the owner of Writing Roads, she’s written for clients such as Kripalu Center, UMass, Traveler’s Insurance and the 4H.

Sue Malomo

Creating her first professional website in 2000, Sue finally decided to stop doing websites “on the side” and created Falmouth Design, a web design and development company, in 2007. She’s been teaching CIS classes as an adjunct for Bristol Community College for 6 years and now teaches web and multimedia courses online as part of the distance learning program. She’s excited to be part of such a great group of Geek Girls for her first ever Geek Girl Camp!

June Bertucci

June Bertucci, President and founder of Small Office Computer Support, has been “getting her geek on” for more than 24 years. As a presenter at the first ever Geek Girl Camp, she can’t wait for the opportunity to share her knowledge of computers and technology at this year’s expanded Geek Girl Boot Camp.  June’s career with technology started out in the early 80’s, when she headed the data operations department of a major bank. It quickly became apparent that she had the magic touch with computers and a natural skill for troubleshooting problems. She went on to manage computer operations on a national level for one of the largest law firms in Boston. In the early nineties June relocated to Cape Cod, where she worked for a hiring process management company that was to become part of Monster.com. Those who work with June enjoy her high energy and enthusiasm, and they gain great peace of mind from her exceptional expertise in technology. June’s goal is to help her clients fully utilize technology. She welcomes the opportunity to bring her extraordinary knowledge to an even wider audience at Geek Girl Boot Camp!

Julie Brooks

Julie has run eCape, Inc., one of the Cape’s largest website design and marketing companies, for 13 years. eCape currently operates CapeCodToday.com, CapeCodTravel.com, WeddingsonCapeCod.com, and CapeCodKidz.com.  eCape has only one purpose–to help every business and organization on Cape Cod succeed on the Internet by either building their website and/or getting them to advertise on one of eCape’s highly trafficked regional portals.  In 2009, eCape is going to launch the websites CapeCodPets.com, FoodandWineCapeCod.com, CapeCodHealthandWellness.com, CapeCodSeniors.com, and a magazine called Cape Cod Kidz. Mom to a 10- and 8- year old and wife to a 46-year old, Julie lives in Brewster,  and despite growing up in two meccas of hipness-Missouri and Tennessee, Julie still thinks Cape Cod is a pretty cool place to live.

Susan Cook

Susan R. Cook, President and founder of Account Ability in 1987 on Nantucket Island, a full-service bookkeeping, tax, & payroll service firm that served over 90 different businesses.  With over 20 years experience in small business accounting, Susan immediately recognized the value of QuickBooks as an accounting software tool.  Now living on the Cape, she works as a freelance consultant, QuickBooks Ability, selling, supporting, implementing & training QuickBooks and related products.  She has taught adult education QuickBooks courses at Upper Cape Cod Regional Technical School.  She is a Certified Sleeter Group Consultant, a national accounting software consulting group, and attends its Accounting Software Conferences annually.  After attending Intuit’s 2008 Accounting Professionals User Conference, she became an Advanced Certified QuickBooks ProAdvisor.  She holds additional certifications in QuickBooks Pro & Premier 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, and QuickBooks Point of Sale 5.0 and 6.0.  Account Ability is the Cape & Islands only Intuit Solutions Provider, offering a full range of value-added consulting services for Intuit QuickBooks Enterprise Solutions.  She is excited to be part of Geek Girl Camp and share her enthusiasm for QuickBooks and the way it can make running a business simpler.