Daniel Knauss Email & Phone Number

Edmonton, Ab, Ca

Austin, Tx

◉ Leading Discovery, uncovering client needs, pain points, and unknown unknowns.◉ Architecting WordPress solutions.◉ Planning and managing project handoff and execution by design and engineering teams. ◉ Supporting Quality Assurance (QA) teams and User Acceptance Testing (UAT). ◉ Supporting client onboarding to their unique WordPress solution.◉ Envisioning the next project iteration within the current project.◉ Surfacing internal process improvements.◉ Keeping up with WordPress, web technologies, and industry developments, especially in UX design, information architecture, security, and privacy. ◉ Gaining and sharing knowledge with colleagues internally and externally. ◉ Writing and editorial support for RFP responses and proposals, internal and client documentation, case studies, and (un)marketing materials. ◉ Supporting business development strategy and partner networks.◉ Sponsored contributor to WordPress community teams.

United States And Canada

✪ Planning and building custom web solutions for select clients to their specifications. ✪ Discovering true needs, proposing and implementing solutions. ✪ Writing RFPs and evaluating proposals for clients.✪ Writing proposals and scopes, consultative sales, and collaborative discovery.✪ Technical and content development with support for WordPress, WooCommerce, and other PHP/MySQL-based open-source web publishing (WCM, CMS, DXP) and e-commerce platforms.✪ High-touch full-service web design, development, and managed hosting services for long-term clients from small to mid-sized businesses, startups, community organizations, colleges and universities, and independent media.✪ Journalism, blogging, and participation in local voluntary associations relating to open data, open government, and the open web; urbanism and ruralism (planning and development); climate, energy, and ecology.

United States

✪ Authored, edited, and optimized over 100 original articles demonstrating Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness, and Trustworthiness (EEAT) across four WordPress product brands: StellarWP, SolidWP, GiveWP, and KadenceWP. ✪ Collaborated improvisationally across marketing, product, and customer success teams for multiple brands in WordPress security, site building and management, AI, and e-commerce. Contributed insights about opportunities and threats to senior leadership.✪ Deepened fluency in the security space by reading, listening, and networking with colleagues, customers, and field experts.✪ Developed the SolidWP brand's voice and style while managing legacy content throughout its rebranding process.✪ Cultivated and shared expertise in open-source web application security.✪ Earned media attention in relevant industry outlets as a podcast guest and speaker. ✪ Built and nurtured relationships with influencers and customers.✪ Wrote new product marketing copy and crafted primary narratives for the Solid Suite bundle of products and services.✪ Worked closely with product development and customer support. Found and helped resolve bugs. Fielded and engaged customer issues on social media. Contributed to UX/UI writing, concepts, and design. Used company and primary brand products on live sites daily. ✪ Improved internal team workflows and relationships with interpersonal communication. Increased efficiency with processes involving people, automation, and AI tools where appropriate for routine tasks.✪ Envisioned, created, and capitalized on opportunities to change narratives around WordPress, open source, and vulnerability/security/trust as part of iThemes/SolidWP's rebranding and product pivot.

United States

✪ Authoring, co-authoring, and cultivating stories — and writers — in the WordPress and webtech space.✪ Overseeing every phase of production for a curated, high-standard weekly news site and newsletter.✪ Planning, coordinating, and producing podcasts, Twitter Spaces, live streams, and webinars.✪ Planning, writing, and editing news, reviews, and interviews with and for the professional WordPress community. ✪ Social media and community management.✪ Created and managed a support desk.✪ Created and updated style guides and staff manuals.✪ Website administration, development planning, and some development and maintenance tasks.✪ Working on a distributed team in concert with other remote teams, volunteers, and contractors.

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

I was on the Local Listener team for the Auricle project, which worked with the City of Edmonton’s RECOVER team to test a new form of listening infrastructure in, with, and for communities, starting with the Alberta Ave. neighbourhood. We recruited and talked to people from all walks of life, inviting them to both offer a story and tell us what their story means. Based on these stories, we tested a prototype for decolonized data collection that helps communities better understand what good living means to them and their diverse members.

Edmonton, Canada Area

✪ DevOps, front and back-end WordPress, client support and maintenance.

Edmonton, Canada Area

✪ Developed a course for teaching students how to write clearly and observe, critically, the conventions of academic writing. ✪ Maintained currency in pedagogy and student learning.✪ Received student evaluations that far exceeded my department's and the university's averages.

Greater Milwaukee Area

Greater Milwaukee Area

Madison, Wisconsin Area

Buies Creek, North Carolina

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Ma, English Language And Literature/Letters

Critical theory and early modern studies. On the side I learned *nix and HTML/CSS — later PHP, JavaScript, MySQL, and related front.

Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

Activities and Societies: Edited a literary annual, The Lyricist, for three years. Presidential Scholar ▴ Sigma Tau Delta ▴ Byrd Creative.

Abd, English Literature (British And Commonwealth)

Activities and Societies: Arthur J. Schmitt FellowEarly Modern and Reformation Studies ▴ History of the Book, Reading, Literacy.

Early Modern Studies

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation's Issues in Interpretation Seminar: "Tradition, Revision, and Continuity in Renaissance and Medieval Literary.

Medieval And Renaissance Studies

While teaching at UW while my wife was finishing her MA program, I took an extremely rewarding and formative graduate seminar with a major.

Medieval And Renaissance Studies

A lifechanging summer at the Centre for Medieval and Renascence Studies (CMRS), Keble College, Oxford University.