Michael Hammaker Email & Phone Number

Santiago Province, Chile

• Gained interprofessional skills in an international work environment of Spanish-speaking coworkers• Completed a market research project on the sports media consumption trends of expatriated South Americans in the US to aid the growth of the company into the “Netflix of Latin American Sports”• Developed in Ruby on Rails for the company’s new mobile streaming application, and proposed ideas founded in research on how to maximize viewership through the app

600 Pennsylvania Ave. Nw

During his second summer at the Federal Trade Commission, Michael was accepted into the Pathways Internship program, where he worked under the tutelage of the Secretary of the Commission and top FTC attorneys. He was able to meticulously read through and summarize large quantities of legal text (Commission administrative complaints and decisions) into succinct case abstracts that were published in FTC Decision Volumes. He also compiled and organized information pertinent to requests made under the Freedom of Information Act, or FoIA, relating to the history of the legal development of franchisers in the United States.

600 Pennsylvania Ave Nw, Washington, Dc 20580

As an intern in the Partnership in Education (PIE) program, Michael worked in the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), a branch of the Office of Executive Development (OED). While there, he gained an extensive knowledge of the task management system Drupal 8 by programming and editing numerous webpages for the FTC website, FTC.gov. He also modernized 2 sections of the FTC's Administrative Manual for OCIO; Michael scheduled interviews with numerous FTC employees to discover their daily tasks, to find out the capital they used on a daily basis, and ascertain how they interacted with members of other branches within the OED. Outside of these and other tasks, Michael interviewed all three commissioners and developed a summary of each's views and ideas about the current goals of the FTC, shadowed FTC employees to obtain a broader sense of the inner workings of the Commission, and recapitulated the entirety of his experience at the FTC in a report that was distributed to the FTC Commissioners, his supervisors, and future interns.

Computer Science, Min. Tech. Entrepreneurship, E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce, 3Rd Year

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