{"id":1814,"date":"2017-09-21T20:05:42","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T20:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/?post_type=wcb_speaker&#038;p=1814"},"modified":"2017-09-24T16:15:55","modified_gmt":"2017-09-24T16:15:55","slug":"david-garcia","status":"publish","type":"wcb_speaker","link":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/david-garcia\/","title":{"rendered":"David Garcia"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>David was born and raised in San Antonio and is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he earned his Bachelors of Business Management and his teaching certificate in Biology.\u00a0 In addition to working with Apple, where he was responsible for recruitment, hiring, talent development, and career paths for team members, David has also held leadership positions with Sears and Gateway.\u00a0 At Gateway, he implemented the rollout for the store within a store concept in partnership with OfficeMax.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>David\u2019s experiences in the world of leading customer service groups and retail business units in the last 15 years is enough to write any number of books.\u00a0 Customer negotiations, operations management, technical support, and especially revenue through customer experience interactions &#8211; David has been there and seen it all thanks to his tenures with Gateway Computers, Apple, and now Geekdom.\u00a0 He has helped shape the formative years of many leaders in the SA tech ecosystem and is continuing those efforts at Geekdom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David was born and raised in San Antonio and is a graduate of the University of Texas at San Antonio, where he earned his Bachelors of Business Management and his teaching certificate in Biology.\u00a0 In addition to working with Apple, where he was responsible for recruitment, hiring, talent development, and career paths for team members, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/speaker\/david-garcia\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;David Garcia&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14595940,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_wcpt_user_name":"","footnotes":""},"speaker_group":[],"class_list":["post-1814","wcb_speaker","type-wcb_speaker","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pheNIc-tg","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","128":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=128&d=mm&r=g","256":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=256&d=mm&r=g","512":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=512&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/wcb_speaker"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14595940"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speakers\/1814\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"wcb_speaker_group","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sanantonio.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker_group?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}