Derek Hanson Email & Phone Number

Remote

Helping amazing people do awesome things with WordPress.

• Provide strategic communication and planning advice to organizations seeking to streamline their marketing plans
• Share strategies and resources to plan budget needs for nonprofit organizations
• Develop project management systems (Asana and ClickUp) for organizations to optimize their weekly communication and marketing tasks
• Lead communication workshops in audience analysis, user experience, marketing and promotions, web design, registration workflows, and content writing
• Design websites for small businesses—user research, low fidelity design prototypes, content writing, and WordPress site building
• Managed WordPress hosting and content updates for website customers

Ames, IA

• Oversee the development and execution of an overall communication plan
• Design, develop, and maintain digital communication assets—website, app, email
• Develop and execute public communication strategy
• Provide leadership and guidance in communication goals to all staff

• English 302: Business Communication, collaborative projects, oral presentations, and document design
• English 250: Composition, visual rhetoric, digital writing, and electronic portfolio development
• English 150: Composition, visual rhetoric, digital writing, and electronic portfolio development

• Create innovative learning technologiesDesign and maintain WordPress sites on multi-site network
• Develop and support department learning management system
• Support users through consultations, email communications, and instructional documents
• Market learning platforms to university stakeholders
• Advertise and conduct training workshops

Story City, IA

• Increased daily production output by 80%,
• Maintained the highest quality standard set forth by the WTCA in-­‐‑plant quality control
• Created several new strategies to increase efficiency in the shop and strengthen communications

• Met with more students each semester than any other tutor,
• Tutored students in all aspects and phases of the writing process,
• Promoted the Writing Center on campus by visiting classes and designing posters,
• Conducted writing workshops on developing thesis statements and topics and how to write effective introductions

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Rhetoric And Professional Communication

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Rhetoric, Composition, And Professional Communication

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta