Wade Thompson Email & Phone Number

Adelaide, South Australia, Australia

Salesperson at JB Hi-Fi - Australia’s largest home entertainment retailer

Mile End, South Australia, Australia

Currently working as a casual retail associate for Haigh’s Chocolates, one of Australia’s most iconic and successful locally grown companies. Duties include chocolate preparation and packaging, picking and packing orders, maintaining a COVID safe work environment, manual handling and general warehouse duties, all performed to the high standard that customers would expect when purchasing premium products from Haigh’s.

Golden Grove, South Australia, Australia

• Managed 40 team members across all departments to perform at a high standard to establish Big W as one of the peak retail department stores in Australia, with a determined focus on creating an easier and more enjoyable shopping experience for our customers.• Identified and implemented new and efficient stock replenishment strategies through years of experience in different stores, and different roles within them, familiarising myself with different systems, adapting and applying appropriate techniques to complement the needs of our store.• Managed stores that achieved daily sales 30% over budget during the Christmas period handling customer issues and customer resolution management while providing support to the store and fill team during the busiest period of the year, allowing our store to be the best performing store against the budget in the state, driving sales that made our smaller store competitive with the numbers of large traders.• Planned and executed the presentation and maintenance of key promotional events leading a team ofworkers to set up and maintain promotional areas such as Christmas and Easter within tight deadlines, with the goal of making it easier for our customers to shop our key areas by efficiently changing over the areas, merchandising the areas as stock sells down, and pushing all event stock to the shop floor, often leading our store to be the first in the state to achieve those goals.• Provided training and skill development to new staff members including teaching new and casual staffmembers in using store inventory systems, operating equipment, cash register process, pick and fill stock systems.

Adelaide, Australia

• Completed multiple projects to strict deadlines to emulate a real world VFX work environment, allowing me to work individually as well as to collaborate and complete shots with classmates using footage and assets from past Rising Sun Pictures projects.• Gained hands-on experience shadowing Production Coordinators where I collaborated with and learned from professionals in the industry, sitting in for dailies, rescheduling meetings, and organizing team goals and priorities for each day.

Adelaide, Australia

• Managed a four month project entailing over 200 VFX shots to develop assets for the SWEAT App, a fitness app with over 40 million downloads. Responsible for implementing and managing a file system and workflow for producing content to the client’s desires. On-site management of an intimate team of artists in order to achieve results and perform to a high standard within tight deadlines.

Advanced Diploma Of Graphic Design - Graphic Design And Print Media, Graphic Design

Studying the current trends, practices and skills in the modern communications and graphic design environment.

Advanced Diploma Of Screen And Media (Specialising In Cgi And Visual Effects), Animation, Interactive Technology, Video Graphics And Special Effects, Pa

While working at Big W I decided to follow my passion for television, movies, video games and creative story telling, and enrolled.