Terry M. Hammes, CEO, President, Co-Founder, Florida-House.org
Executive Director (seeking funding)
Terry Hammes, MBA, MIT, MEd, Co-Founder and CEO of Florida-House.org Inc. Ms Hammes is the Inventor of IdeaNet, the business development software that pairs companies and individuals with contracts and hosting opportunities under development. Using MS Access, a company is ‘matched’ with the criteria of the international Visitor, and programs are tracked, documented and reviewed.
The IdeaNet portal is a gateway to Business-2-Business, to match requirements for the National Council for International Visitors, expanded to include commercial applications. A proprietary SIC code base in the software is to assist in the uniform database management of corporate profiles for bid procurement, economic development, travel and tourism.
Ms. Hammes has served on numerous for profit and not-for-profit Boards of Directorships over the years in significant positions. For First Florida FSB, a $93 million dollar bank where Hammes was the only woman and non-Hispanic. Her Directorship was approved by the IRS, Office of Thrift Supervision and the FBI. There, Hammes handled the bilingual marketing and advertising; she also served on the Credit, Audit and Compliance Committees of the bank on Board of Directors in a successful bank turnaround.
As public relations chair for the Miami Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) Hammes initiated the first Tri-Country Federal Procurement Fair in 1987; for the Ponce de Leon Development Association as Secretary, and developed marketing material which led to City of Coral Gables funding approval within two weeks of completion of Ponce Circle Park in the heart of the Gables Business District. For the Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce’s Leadership Miami program, Hammes created the marketing material used for years.
For the Miami Children’s Museum, as Trustee and Director, Hammes developed a series of marketing pieces, in cooperation with Hammes client Miami Children’s Hospital, which helped develop the organization’s Board, generate programming revenue, increased the visibility and generate funds for the now built $25 million facility on Watson Island.
Hammes Advertising, founded in 1978, is a full service advertising, marketing, public relations.
Closed while pursuing postgraduate degrees to develop IdeaNet, Terry Hammes and Blaine Findlay reopened Hammes Advertising in Boca Raton in Feb. 2006, to include web development services. Hammes designed, built, marketed and managed an AIA award winning commercial building and income property across from the University of Miami - her corporate home for 14 years. She was able to finance the property with a pre-purchase triple A national tenant, Sandvik Latin America, and managed construction.
Hammes has won numerous awards for both academic and professional work, and was selected a Businesswoman of the Year in 2006 by the Republican National Congressional Committee, an Honorary Chairman of the Business Advisory Council for RNCC in 2006, and given a 2006 Leadership Award from the Business Advisory Council.
A lifelong Democrat, former landlord to the Dade County Democratic Party,Hammes is concerned with issues not politics. In 2007, she has been selected as a Member of the House Republican Trust. She is a published poet and veteran of numerous juried art shows and Directorships of Not-For-Profits and For Profit Corporations. www.hammesadvertising.com.
For the Miami Council, off and on in the 1990’s on a volunteer basis, Hammes assisted Rosa O’Neill, MCIV on programming selection, home stays, and appointments, for Viktor Mints and others. Ms. Hammes has been granted a lifetime corporate membership from the Miami Council for pro bono work in Miami.
A very brief description in my Collegiate Inventors competition package on our HammesAdvertising.com site under IdeaNet on the right at www.hammesadvertising.com : http://www.hammesadvertising.com/ideanetpart1and2.pdf describes some direct hosting and programming.
The website for Florida House: http://www.florida-house.org; The link to her resume is http://hotjobs.yahoo.com/resumes/terry_m_hammes/projectmanager. Extensive corporate clients in South Florida, all of whom we could draw on, plus outreach efforts using the press, print and online medias.
Pertinent relevant experience is: Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce Leadership Miami, Alumni, PR Director of Executive Committee and creator of the Greater Miami Chamber’s Leadership Miami brochure in the early 1990’s.
Intellectual Author of the plan that established the Foreign Policy Institute at Miami Dade Community College (M-DCC) under Dr. Eduardo Padron with Ricardo Bernardo, who interviewed me extensively for the document. See the Reference Letter from USIA’s Deputy Director James C. Pollock. This is a programming agency, but Hammes did not program for it.
Co-written with Alan White, the Business Plan that established The Real Estate Institute at Florida International University, see Alan White, Orion Commercial’s resume and the cover page to the original 1992 Marketing Plan. After Hurricane Andrew stopped progress, in 1997 the REI was founded with matching grants totaling $1.2 million. See Alan White’s Letter of Reference:
http://groups.msn.com/HammesAdvertisingMarketingPR/shoebox.msnw?Page=3
For Ponce Circle Park, Coral Gables, designed the brochure with the Landscape Architect that generated 100% funding by the City for the creation of the central commercial district park by the City Commission, as Secretary of Ponce Development Association.
For the National Association of Women Business Owners, as PR Chair, in 1987, Hammes initiated and helped organize the first (and only) Tri-County Procurement Fair, co-sponsored by the SBA and National Association of Women Business Owners.
And, in the Not-For-Profit sector, the most significant work Hammes did was for the Miami Children’s Museum, by contributing a series of brochures, paid for by Hammes’ client Miami Children’s Hospital, which helped raise awareness, build the Board of Directors and show the vision for the new facility, the $25 million Watson Island Museum now opened. This client became a lead gift in the model for what is planned for Florida House by donating $175,000 for the MCM Parent Resource Center, a computer center for information. See http://www.miamichildrensmuseum.org/parentresources.html and Barbara Zolman’s Letter of Reference: http://groups.msn.com/HammesAdvertisingMarketingPR/shoebox.msnw?Page=3
See www.HammesAdvertising.com, www.Florida-House.org, anprofiles under www.Naymz.com, www.WhichWebDesignCompany.com
