Wade Hammes | Web Development and UX Design
I'm Wade Hammes, a senior software engineer for Rhythm, working remotely in Washington, D.C. Majority of my time is spent working with React and Wordpress, focused on building performant user interfaces, websites, and scalable design systems.
Rhythm
Rhythm Marketing Site - NextJS, Contentful, Typescript
RhythmRhythm launched in January 2021, prior to joining them full-time I was contracted to build their forward-facing marketing site, gotrhythm.com, using NextJS, Contentful CMS, and Typescript. The site is translated into Spanish using i18n and NextJS internationalization.
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Skyword
Skyword 2019 Redesign - UX, Wordpress Development
SkywordComplete redesign and overhaul of the Skyword brand. This custom Wordpress development had huge SEO implications: over 4,000+ pages/posts had to be pared down and imported. Performance was the goal here: WebP for images, HTTP2, IntersectionObserver for lazy loading, CDN, caching, and more. As a result, we grade B on GTMetrix and all A's on webpagetest.org.
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Clients
Arena Labs - UX, Web Design & Development
Arena LabsArena Labs needed a website refresh and a new blog component for their launch early in 2020.
Visit the SiteConcrete 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
Visit the SiteDelmarva 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.
Visit the SiteArmigé 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.
Visit the SiteExperius 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.
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).
Visit the SiteBorromeo 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.
Credits / WDG Creatathon
TrackMaven
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.
Visit the PageTrackmaven 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.
Visit the SiteTrackmaven 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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Pappas Group
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
Visit the SiteXO 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
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
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
