Speaker Bio

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Upcoming Talks & Workshops

'24 Nov 21
Improving Core Web Vitals using Speculation Rules API at Google DevFest NYC 2024
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Past talks and materials

2024

'24 Sep 26
Understanding speed of your site with Core Web Vitals at Montclair WordPress (slides)
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'24 Aug 17
Meet4SPEED: A Website Optimization Workshop at NJ Code & Coffee
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'24 Jul 27
Chrome Developer Tools introduction and deeper-dive talk at NJ Code & Coffee
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'24 Jun 5
Speed Design talk at NY UX Speed & Web Performance Meetup (slides, video)
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'24 May 21
Flexible Architectures for Web Performance talk at NY UX Speed & Web Performance Meetup (slides, video)
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'24 Apr 21
Meet4SPEED: A Website Optimization Workshop at NY Code & Coffee
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2019

'19 Jan 24
Dynamic Generation talk at JAMstack NYC (slides, video)
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2018

'18 Dec 5
UX Capture Library Show & Tell at Open Source NYC
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'18 Nov 27
Capturing Speed of User Experience Using UserTiming API talk at NY Web Performance Meetup (slides, video)
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2017

'17 Dec 14-15
Integrating Web Performance Best Practices On-line Training at O'Reilly Safari Books On-line
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'17 Nov 6-7
Integrating Web Performance Best Practices On-line Training at O'Reilly Safari Books On-line
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'17 Sep 12th
Tracking Page Speed at NYC HTML5 meetup
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'17 Aug 31st
Fastest request is request never made at NYC JavasSript React Group
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'17 Jul 31st
Hands-on Web Perforance Workshop at NY JavaScript Meetup
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'17 Jun 8th
Quick intro into Tracking Page Speed at NYC React Meetup hosted by American Express
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2016

'16 Nov 1st
Designing speed with progressive enhancement at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'16 Oct 13th
Using Heat Maps to improve performance metrics at DevOpsQA NJ Meetup
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'16 Sep 19th
Designing speed with progressive enhancement at a meetup co-hosted by O'Reilly Media & HPE and organized by Velocity NY team.
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'16 Jul 10th
Designing speed with progressive enhancement at WebPerf.camp 2016 at UN Headquarters
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'16 Jul 10th
Review of Web performance tools at WebPerf.camp 2016 at UN Headquarters
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'16 Jun 27th
Using Heat Maps to improve performance metrics at New York Web Performance Meetup
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'16 Jun 16th
Web Performance Workshop at QCon New York
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'16 Apr 14th
Using Heat Maps to improve performance metrics at Akamai Tech Day NY
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2015

'15 Nov 11th
Guest lecture on performance as part of CS5336 cource at Cornell University
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'15 Oct 28th
Speed is Feature #1 at O'Reilly Velocity Webcast
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'15 Mar 11th
Fast and Responsive Images at New York Front End Coders Meetup
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'15 Jan 15th
Speed is Feature #1 at a joint New York Web Performance and NYC CSS/UX Meetup
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2014

'14 Oct 9th
Lightning Fast / Responsive Images at The New York Web Standards Meetup Group
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'14 Sep 16th
Fast and Responsive Images at O'Reilly Velocity Conference, NY 2014
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'14 Aug 28th
Tools of the trade, second time I gave this talk at New York Web Performance Meetup since our first session in 2009
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2013

'13 Dec 17th
Fast and Responsive Images at New York Web Performance Meetup
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'13 Oct 14th
Hands-on Web Performance Optimization Workshop at O'Reilly Velocity Conference, NY 2013
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'13 Jun 18th
Hands-on Web Performance Optimization Workshop at O'Reilly Velocity Conference, CA 2013
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'13 Mar 27th
Scalability vs. Performance at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'13 Feb 28th
Scalability vs. Performance at NYC Webscale Group
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2012

'12 Aug 29th
Image Optimization at Web Performance Summit
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'12 Aug 22nd
Using OAuth at New York Startup API Meetup
startups
'12 Jun 28th
Image Optimization Ignite talk at WebPerfDays, CA
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'12 Mar 1st
Image Optimization Pipeline at San Francisco ∓ Silicon Valley Web Performance Group
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'12 Jan 27th
Web performance: beyond load testing at NY CMG
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2011

'11 Jul 28th
LAMP Performance Optimizations at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'11 Jul 13th
Facebook Social Plugins at New York Social Media Meetup
'11 Jun 15th
Lightning Demo of ShowSlow at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2011
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'11 Jun 14th
Performance Tools Workshop with Steve Souders, Patrick Meenan and Alois Reitbauer at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2011
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'11 May 17th
Social Login and Registration at New York Social Media Meetup
'11 May 3rd
Introduction to Web Performance talk at IEEE Long Island.
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'11 Apr 14th
Web Performance Optimization Tools demos with Ryan Witt at NY Web Performance Meetup
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2010

'10 Sep 1st
Taming 3rd-party content: ads, widgets, trackers "water cooler" talk at Time Inc
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'10 Jul 22nd
Taming 3rd-party content: ads, widgets, trackers at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'10 Jul 1st
Velocity 2010 review at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'10 Jun 23rd
Keeping Track of Your Performance Using Show Slow talk at O'Reilly Velocity Conference 2010
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'10 May 12th
Web Performance Matters "water cooler" talk at Time Inc
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'10 Apr 22nd
Semantic Data in Web Pages - introduction to RDFa as part of Introduction to the Semantic Web @ New York Semantic Web Meetup
semantic web
'10 Mar 23rd
Keeping Track of Your Performance Using Show Slow - extended talk with demo at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'10 Mar 17th
Keeping Track of Your Performance Using Show Slow - short demo at O'Reilly Velocity Online Conference
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'10 Jan 20th
Google Page Speed - talk I give at joint meetup of NY Web Performance Meetup and NYC GTUG
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2009

'09 Dec 10th
How to make cache work for you - talk I give at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'09 Oct 21st
MediaWiki widgets - Introduction to MediaWiki Widgets and MediaWikiWidgets.org at New York MediaWiki Users Group (HTML slides)
mediawiki
'09 Sep 15th
Saving Traffic and Money - talk I give at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'09 Aug 18th
JavaScript Performance - talk I give with Ning Zhou at NY Web Performance Meetup
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'09 Jun 16th
Web Performance for PHP developers - talk I give with Hans Zaunere and Gennady Feldman at NY Web Performance Meetup @ Etsy labs
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'09 May 12th
Tools of the trade - talk I give at the first NY Web Performance Meetup
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'09 Mar 19th
Web performance - talk I give at New York Web Standards Meetup
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'09 Mar 5th
Web performance preview talk I gave at truTV
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2008

'08 Nov 20th
Why RDFa - short intro to RDFa I prepared (but didn't have time to present) for New York Semantic Web Meetup (PowerPoint)
semantic web
'08 Mar 13th
Semantic MediaWiki & Semantic Forms - talk I gave with Yaron Koren at New York Semantic Web Meetup (PDF)
semantic web