Lorna Mitchell

Lorna is an independent web development consultant and trainer based in Leeds, UK and working with a wide variety of clients to improve their development practices.  She is the author of traditionally published books "PHP Master" and "PHP Web Services" in addition to her Leanpub collection and writes regularly for her own site lornajane.net and other publications.  A regular conference speaker, you can often find her at conferences and other events speaking about both business and technical topics, particularly HTTP and APIs.  Outside of work, Lorna leads the joind.in open source project - enabling real-time public feedback for speakers and organisers of community events.