Wade Meredith Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri, United States

Overland Park, Kansas, Us

Managed multiple full stack teams delivering a software as a service (SAAS) payment platform processing over $100,000,000 in recurring annual transactions. ✹ Led and mentored a team of software engineers by fostering a collaborative and high-performing team environment. Providing guidance and support to help my team achieve their full potential. ✹ Worked closely with product designers, UX designers, and software engineers to define, design, and implement our product and customer experience. ✹ Communicated the technical vision and roadmap, ensuring alignment with overall business goals. ✹ Influenced the software development lifecycle from requirement gathering and design to development, testing, and deployment. ✹ Championed the adoption of best practices and emerging technologies within my team, promoting continuous improvement and innovation. ✹ Collaborated with cross-functional teams, working effectively with product managers, designers, QA testers, and other stakeholders to ensure successful delivery of features. ✹ Clearly communicate technical decisions and progress with technical and non-technical audiences.

New York, New York, Us

Acted as an integrated marketing technology specialist, delivering high-quality branded user experiences for clients such as Ford Motors, T-Mobile, and Pfizer. ✹ Led a team of content specialists focused on customer experience design, content architecture implementation, data modeling, business analysis, and market research. ✹ Responsible for ensuring that content strategies are executed effectively and delivered on time. ✹ Accountable for project success and client satisfaction regarding the on-time delivery and quality of all scoped martech deliverables. ✹ Established trust and credibility with core client leads to foster client satisfaction, consistent communication, and incremental business opportunities. ✹ Contribute to written RFI/RFP responses and new business pitches.

North Kansas City, Mo, Us

Technical Consultant to VML: See experience listed under VML.

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Developed and managed in-house tools and processes to create rapid prototyping, user flows, and wireframes. Reported directly to the CEO, and interacted with colleagues and senior leadership on a remote basis. Recruited talent for the user experience (UX) design team. Served as a mentor for junior UX team members, as well as an advocate and the driving force for UX initiatives, user-driven designs, user-research, and accessibility. Researched user patterns with analytics to help shape the development process. Regularly maintained and enforced the design system and the style guide for all company products. ✪ Earned competitive-advantage status for the company flagship software product's user experience, including recognition from clients, colleagues, and competitors. ✪ Reduced internal tooling development and deployment times by 50% through leading underperforming internal projects to completion in half the originally quoted time frame, including customized intranet and internal sales portal implementations. ✪ Played a key role in the company's changeover from Waterfall to Agile development, leading to a threefold increase in the time from feature request to deployment.

Kansas City, Missouri, Us

Instrumental in multimedia content marketing projects and initiatives, including social media, email, content-driven marketing, crowd-funding platforms, micro-sites, PPC advertising, and large e-commerce installations. Tracked projects to ensure activity remained on task and within budget. Responsible for account management and direct sales revenue. Led inside sales for current clients. Developed a collection of internal business intelligence tools. Led marketing campaigns and created client deliverables including ROI reports. Conducted speaking engagements on technology for local Rotary Clubs and Chambers of Commerce as community outreach.✪ Directed a successful social media campaign for a large national retailer, with over 1600% engagement delta in three weeks. ✪ Proved invaluable in advocacy and implementation for a best practices checklist system for several internal processes that led to favorable business outcomes. ✪ Spearheaded the transition from a brand and print to a modern integrated marketing agency, leading to doubled growth during my tenure with the company. ✪ Launched a highly lucrative crowd-funding platform that generated 500% ROI for an NPO client.

Met with customers to create website designs and wireframes, including responsive front-ends using current technologies. Partnered with engineers and other employees to develop functional and responsive web applications. Implemented websites using HTML, ASP.NET, and CSS.

Marketing Assistant. Responsible for composition of business development proposals, events tracking and coordination, resume layout and copy writing. Project Administrator. Implemented procedure for handling ten-year document archive. Also performed duties as an Estimator as well as Assistant Project Engineer.

I created and published relevant content for site visitors within key demographics and audiences. I designed infographics to translate complex information into accessible, appealing imagery for first-time visitors and regular readers. I responded to emails from visitors including readers and business representatives. I moderated comments on blog posts as needed. ✪ I built a media platform from scratch that grew from zero to 3M monthly recurring page views in less than one year.✪ I developed the most popular infographic of 2007 according to digg.com

I was a manager the #1 store in the McAlister's chain (156 stores nationwide at the time).