Charles is the lead developer and strategist at the Ottawa Citizen. He is a PHP/mySQL/Javascript programmer with a degree in journalism and a deep interest in audience development and online publishing. Before joining the Citizen he owned a web agency in BC specializing in custom WordPress development.
Charles is participating in the panel Building Your Business, Cause, or Brand using WordPress
| Why WordPress? Why do you like using WordPress? | I love being able to install a CMS with plugins that does 90% of my development work for me and still gives me full access to the code so I can tweak it to my specific needs. |
| Why did you decide to speak at WordCamp Ottawa? | I am very interested to see how others are using the software to achieve their communications goals. I will be speaking, but I’ve come to learn. |
| What is your talk going to be about? | I will be engaged in a panel to discuss achieving communications goals using WordPress. |
| What is your favourite WordPress plugin or theme? Why? | FeedWordPress, because it allows for very simple crowd-sourced content aggregation. |



