{"id":1369,"date":"2016-06-10T14:59:41","date_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2016.neo.wordcamp.org\/?p=1369"},"modified":"2016-06-10T14:59:41","modified_gmt":"2016-06-10T18:59:41","slug":"speaker-interview-joe-querin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/speaker-interview-joe-querin\/","title":{"rendered":"Speaker Interview: Joe Querin"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here at WordCamp Northeast Ohio, we are pretty big fans of the Lifehacker series “How I Work”<\/span><\/u><\/a>. We asked our speakers to do a WordPress take on that idea, and thus was born “How I WordPress”- a series where some of the best minds in WordPress share a bit about their process with our readers\/attendees.<\/p>\n

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Name<\/strong>
\nJoe Querin<\/p>\n

Location<\/strong>
\nLorain, OH<\/p>\n

Current Gig<\/strong><\/p>\n

Full-Time: Web Development Coordinator | On-the-side: Web Design\/Development Consultant<\/p>\n

Career Summary<\/strong>
\nI work full-time for Lorain County Community College for the last 17+ years.\u00a0 I have also been doing freelance consulting for web design and development through my own company for the past 14 years.<\/p>\n

One word that best describes how you work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Creative<\/p>\n

Current Mobile Device\/Why<\/strong><\/p>\n

Devices: iPhone 6s+ and iPad | Why: While I’m a PC guy by budget, I liked the variety of apps available for in the Apple store.\u00a0 The intuitiveness of the iOS and devices attracted me as well.\u00a0 The others just don’t seem to be as polished as the Apple devices.<\/p>\n

Current Computer\/Why <\/strong><\/p>\n

Dell Desktop, Dell Laptop\u00a0 and OS X desktop (Full-time gig) | HP PC at home.\u00a0 At my full-time gig, we’re a Windows shop thru-and-thru.\u00a0 At home my PC is what I could afford, plus I grew up on PCs and can take them apart and fix them as well.<\/p>\n

What apps\/software\/tools can’t you live without?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Photoshop, Illustrator, Brackets, Chrome, Gulp<\/p>\n

What’s your workspace setup like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

PC Desktop (full-time gig and home) – Windows 7 Pro, twin widescreen 19″, corded keyboard and mouse. Laptop – 17″ (9-year old beast, soon to be replaced by a new 17″).\u00a0 Full-time gig Mac Desktop 24″ wide screen monitor<\/p>\n

What’s your best time\/effort-saving life hack?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Writing things down, whether digitally or on paper.\u00a0 I vary between my phone\/iPad and a notebook to keep track of things.<\/p>\n

What’s your favorite to-do list method?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Google Calendar, Iphone To-do list<\/p>\n

After your phone and computer, what gadget can’t you live without? Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Any one of the number of power tools I’ve amassed for either maintaining my home or building things at home. After building digitally all day, I enjoy relaxing on my weekends by building\/fixing things with my hands.<\/p>\n

What everyday thing are you better at than everyone else?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My wife says I’m the master shaker, because I always shake everything up, including milk. Who doesn’t?<\/p>\n

What do you listen to while working?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I listen to a range of music.\u00a0 Mostly either Spotify playlists of favorite\/new music, or if I’m deep in coding or server setup, then it’s orchestra instrumentals either of video game soundtracks or from various artists.\u00a0 Mostly been rocking Halo soundtracks lately.<\/p>\n

What do you do to stay inspired?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Keep an eye on twitter, as well as perusing Dribbble, Smashing Magazine, etc.\u00a0 I also try to take a break and look around me throughout the day.\u00a0 It’s amazing how a printed advertisement, sign, cloud formation or something in nature can inspire you.<\/p>\n

What are you currently reading?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anything and everything.\u00a0 Blog articles on Graphic\/Web Design, Web Development, Server Architecture, Cookbooks, the Bible.<\/p>\n

What sort of work are you up to now?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Massive overhaul all of our current web sites to WordPress at my full-time gig, as well architecting and building out new infrastructure for our new WordPress based websites.\u00a0 In my spare time I help local small businesses with their web presence.\u00a0 I also assist my wife with her photography business.<\/p>\n

What’s your sleep routine like?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sleep???\u00a0 Chronic pain doesn’t allow much sleep, though being a parent doesn’t help either.\u00a0 Though most nights I end up falling asleep on the couch easier than going to bed.<\/p>\n

What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Words from my Dad, \u201cConsider the source and ignore it\u201d.\u00a0 These 6 words have been repeated in my mind many times over the years.><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here at WordCamp Northeast Ohio, we are pretty big fans of the Lifehacker series “How I Work”. We asked our speakers to do a WordPress take on that idea, and thus was born “How I WordPress”- a series where some of the best minds in WordPress share a bit about their process with our readers\/attendees. … Continue reading “Speaker Interview: Joe Querin”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NH2X-m5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1369"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1369\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neo.wordcamp.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}