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 React (product work) and Wordpress (freelance work).
Skyword/TrackMaven Work
Trackmaven Facebook Advertising Benchmarks
TrackmavenThis year, 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 App - CSS/HTML Architecture, Angular
TrackmavenMost of my time spent at TrackMaven is building out front-end features for our application, which is a marketing analytics software built on Angular. Alongside that, I am currently building an internal styleguide/framework, Collar to easily build features in the future.
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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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Recent Work
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. The site itself was a custom Wordpress theme hand built with CSS4 (using PostCSS). The theme is available for purchase, contact me.
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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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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). The site was a custom Wordpress build.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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More work can be viewed on Github. My Github
Contact
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.
