Wade Hammes | Web Development and UX Design
I'm Wade Hammes, a senior front-end engineer for Skyword in Washington, D.C. Majority of my time is spent working with either React and Wordpress, focused on building performant user interfaces and scalable design systems.
Skyword / TrackMaven Work
I am the sole developer for both our Wordpress sites, maintaining both the Wordpress instance and the server upkeep. As a member of the engineering team, I focus my time building our in-house design system (React, styled-components, and Storybook). Code examples of the latter can be made avaible upon request.
Trackmaven Facebook Advertising Benchmarks
TrackmavenIn 2018, TrackMaven launched their Ads product in our core application (which I've been working on as well), and I put together this page to highlight the $82M in Facebook advertising spend we analyzed from over 500 B2B and B2C brands between January - August 2018.
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Trackmaven Marketing Site 2017 Redesign - Wordpress Development
TrackmavenBeginning of January, I put aside my application work and began building our new forward facing Wordpress site, with a goal for performance and lean code. Utilizing new HTTP2 protocols and Cloudfront content delivery, as well as PostCSS generated CSS under 60kb sitewide, we were able to achieive a 50% faster site experience over our last site.
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Trackmaven Marketing Site 2015 Redesign - Wordpress Development
TrackmavenAs TrackMaven's sole front-end developer for two years before we built a team devoted to front-end architecture, I was tasked with rebuilding and maintaining the custom Wordpress theme for our massive marketing site. Built using CSS4 via Postcss.
TrackMaven Alerts - Email Development
TrackMavenTrackMaven was on the verge of their launch and needed their platform notification emails to be built out — and work in every client on every browser and device.
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Latest Work
These are a few of the recent freelance projects I have completed over the course of 2017 to today. All are custom Wordpress sites utilizing Advanced Custom Fields and modern web dev principles / standards.
Concrete General, Inc. - Brand Development, UX, Web Design & Development
Concrete General, Inc.Concrete General, Inc is a Prime Contractor in the heavy highway civil construction industries. I delivered a complete UX and UI overhaul with a fully custom Wordpress theme, and a custom-built bid portal utilizing Mailgun subscriptions and bulk file downloads.
Credits / Brand Development: Dean Johnson
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Delmarva Site Development - UX, Web Design & Development
Delmarva Site DevelopmentDelmarva is the premiere site development team in the DMV area, but before this website refresh, their online brand looked dated and lacked the funcationality to drive more proposal leads. I helped work them through a complete UX and UI overhaul with a fully custom Wordpress theme.
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Armigé Agency - Web Design & Development
Armigé AgencyArmigé is a booking agency based out of NYC focused on curating a lineup of DJs/Producer who bring life and journies to their sets. Some of their artists include Igor Vicente, Subb-an, German Brigante, Cry Baby, and more. The site is a custom Wordpress theme, utilizing Gigwell and Bands in Town APIs.
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Tortoise and the Snare - Web Design & Development
Tortoise and the SnareTortoise and the Snare was DC's premiere electronic music blog, founded by myself and two friends in early 2016, and closed in 2017 due to other endeavors. It saw tremendous growth within the local community of DC in that time, with nearly 10k traffic per month to its articles.
Experius VR - Web Design & Development
Experius VRExperius VR approached me with the need to bring their new VR filming company to the web, and with it showcase some of the early VR potential web browsers use today. Using Three.js, I was able to bring them panoramic VR experiences right to the browser. The site is a custom Wordpress theme built using CSS4.
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Heliskope - Web Design & Development
HeliskopeHeliskope was a drone photography and videography endeavor between myself and my best friend. We closed up shop due to the heavy sanctions and permitting put on drone flying in the DC area (essentially a no-fly zone for 15 mile radius). Site is still live for nostalgia. Custom Wordpress (one of the first I ever did).
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CJ Foreign Car - Web Development
CJ Foreign CarCJ Foreign Car needed a new web presence to better convert from their Google Adwords campaign. I helped bring their CTA's up front, and gave them a clean, modern design. Designed/built in 2012, this was one of the first websites I built fron start to finish.
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Past Work
These are here for nostalgia, as most are defunct, inactive, or not present on the web any longer.
Future Is Podcast - Web Design & Development / Branding
Future Is PodcastFuture Is Podcast is a podcast I ran with Ryan Bates. It paired both a journalistic approach with traditional podcasting and added a dash of art (each episode had a guest artist providing the artwork). Another project of mine that is no longer in service, and I have no archive of the episodes. Custom Wordpress build.
Zos Communications - Web Design & Development
Zos CommunicationsZos Communicaions approached me with a need for a much updated site to better reflect the brand. Turned out, they needed a whole rebranding and we delivered.
Credits / Designer: Mike Nugent Copy Writing: Dot Johnson
The Tombs - Web Development
Clyde's Restaurant GroupThe Tombs, an old landmark on the Georgetown University campus, approached us to modernize their web presence while keeping the old school feel.
Credits / Art Direction: Sean Wallace ⋅ Designer: Jia Li
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Pappas Group Slant - Web Development
Pappas GroupOn the cusp of a new rebrand, Slant is our thought-leadership column researching many of our industry's trending topics.
Credits / Art Direction: Anthony Pappas ⋅ Spencer Slemenda
Made Market - Web Development
Made Market by DoubletreeMade Market, a restaurant/cafe spinoff by Doubletree Hotels, is a place to grab a quick, wholesome bite to eat without resorting to nasty fast food.
Credits / Design: Kyle Conrad ⋅ Co-development: Patrick Glynn, Marty Minton
XO Beauty Behind IT - Web Development
XO CommunicationsThe Beauty Behind IT for XO Communications was a campaign to show the beauty behind a seemingly boring industry. We brought in well-known JS artists to create experiences based around each product.
Credits / Art Direction: Spencer Slemenda
NCTA Redesign - UX Design
NCTANCTA tasked us to create a redesign that had the modern look-and-feel as their member companies (HBO, Showtime), but still positioned them as a reputable information resource.
Credits / Art Direction: Spencer Slemenda ⋅ Designer: Kyle Conrad
XO Intelligent WAN - Web Development
XO CommunicationsThe Intelligent WAN campaign for XO helped create buzz and provide information around XO's new WAN solution.
Credits / Art Direction: Spencer Slemenda ⋅ Co-development: Austin Laverty
Borromeo Housing - Web Design & Development
Borromeo Housing / Createathon DCThis website was conceived, designed and developed in 72 hours at the Createathon DC as a volunteer effort. This was a very rewarding experience working to help a great cause earn a better web presence.
Comcast Business Class iPad App - UX Design
Comcast Small BusinessComcast Small Business wanted to outfit their reps with an easy way to get qoutes for perspective customers while out in the field.
Credits / Art Direction: Spencer Slemenda ⋅ Designer: Kyle Conrad
Ballston BID Redesign - UX Design
Ballston BIDBallston, a neighborhood in Arlington, VA, is quickly growing in the business sector — with this increase in growth, the BID needed a site to best showcase what the town has to offer to future corporate tenants.
Credits / Art Direction: Stefan Poulos ⋅ Designer: Mike Nugent ⋅ Development: Patrick Glynn
JobCompass Landing Page - PSD Design
JobCompassJobCompass needed better conversions from their landing pages during an ongoing email campaign. This page was so successful, they used it as the concept for their new homepage.
More work can be viewed on Github. My Github
Currently, I work full-time for Skyword in Washington, D.C. I am not taking on freelance work at this time, but I am open to chat with you about an idea, project, or anything else you have in mind.