resume | wade hammes

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Skills

My passion lies within Social Media, Networking, Marketing Research, non-traditional marketing, and Twitter and Facebook Trends. I work in Human Resources, and on the side I do freelance graphic, logo, and web design.

I am skilled in Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Office, XP/Vista/Windows 7/OS X, HTML, and CSS.

Education

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Bachelor of Sciences in Management, focus in Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Technology
(graduated in May 2010)

My studies in college took me through various aspects of business life, marketing, and technology. Courses studied included (not limited to) human resource management, marketing and advertising, small business consulting, and over 20 hours of management leadership courses.

Professional Experience

HR Business Partner, Electronic Consulting Services, Inc. (October 2010 - Present)

• Manage and Maintain Paper Files According to HIPAA and DOL requirements
• Manage and Maintain Employee Data Records
• Assess system and process user friendliness and functionality
• Recommend upgrades and enhancement that will ensure maximum system capability including workflow, approval processes, alerts, etc
• Work with vendor to establish and adhere to project plan and schedules
• Establish and conduct employee and management training
• Responsible for Employment Verifications, E Verify, Etc
• Responsible for State & Federal Reporting
• Act as HRS’ Interface With ECS Payroll
• New Hire Orientation and Training & Development
• HRIS Reporting & Analysis and Employee Files
• University Relations
• Intranet Enhancement
• Employee Branding Initiative (Team Effort)
• Support Employee Morale Initiatives

Partner, Zer0day LLC (January 2011 - Present)

• Coordinate and manage client base and ensure work is completed on time
• Maintain and lead use of project management system (Apollo)
• Facilitate business with future clients and set milestones
• Lead creative direction from site mockup (PSD) to final product
• Strategize best social media implementation method for client
• Design and develop training tutorials and materials
• Use best practices in HTML and CSS in web dev

Internet Media Developer, NERD Energy Beverage Corp. (May 2009 - present)

• Manage online social networks and consumer interaction
• Maintain company blog and manage blog journalists
• Provide support on website issues and development
• Collaborate with executives and web-development team on site design
• Prepare weekly site analytic reports and site-traffic goals
• Coordinate meetings with developers and management teams
• Design ads and relevant graphic material for advertising
• Implement new marketing strategies and brand-awareness ploys using traditional marketing methods

Founder/CTO, FITnoke (February 2008 - May 2010)

• Manage everyday site maintenance and customer support
• Collaborate with partner on site redesign by holding weekly progress meetings to evaluate new findings and brainstorm new ideas
• Research demographic and target market to insure company mission matches consumer demands
• Develop social skills by promoting website to different businesses/organizations
• Managed staff of thirteen journalist and bloggers

Creative Director/Business Development Intern, Koofers Inc. (May 2009 - August 2009)

• Collaborated with project groups to design and implement new user-interface features
• Provided extensive input into user-site-flow and overall user experience
• Using knowledge in graphic design with Adobe Photoshop, provided company with a new look and feel of site by using modern website design approaches
• Conducted internal meetings with web developers to insure development of new features fit the structure of site flow.
• Assisted the Lead Marketing Director in new marketing strategies and headed the implementation of a new Campus Representative program
• Traveled to various colleges to build foundation for future Campus Reps at the respective schools

Honors

• Freshman class president at Bridgewater College, 2005
• Top Three Finalist for TokBox.com Ultimate Internship in San Francisco
• Nominated for Rising Star award at the NewVa Corridor Tech. Council Awards for FITnoke
• Second Place in 2010 VT KnowledgeWorks Business Concept Idea (consulting for mapMonkeys.com)

Activities

• Member of Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
• Consultant for LimbGear.com, FrazierHughes.com, Handshake Media Inc.
• Guest journalist for Under30CEO.com
• Social media management for Handshake 2.0