Andy Wadman
My name is Andy Wadman, I am currently 22, and living in Plymouth, Minnesota. I am a relatively new addition to OAC, but I will get to that shortly
I was born and raised in St. Paul then Eden Prairie Minnesota. My family and I moved to Plano, Texas when I was in middle school. While in Plano I met one of my current best friends Kevin Parks, who is another big part of OAC. After I finished middle school I moved back to Minnesota, to a city called Plymouth where I went to Wayzata High School. I graduated from high school in 2004 and had plans to attend the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul.
I started school at St. Thomas in the fall of 2004. At first I didn’t know what I wanted to major in, so I took a lot of general courses. I took a couple of marketing classes, and I really started to get interested in the material that I was learning. So, early in my Junior year I declared marketing to be my major. Through my time in the business school at St. Thomas I had many opportunities to apply what I was learning by working with real businesses. One such opportunity was a management project with a restaurant called Fabulous Ferns. Another opportunity i had was a marketing project with the Minnesota Thunder, a professional soccer team. But the most interesting project was with Otto Bock, the number one prosthetic leg maker in the world. With a group, I did market research for Otto Bock and their industry, we also did other difficult marketing tasks for them. I was able to graduate from St. Thomas in exactly 4 years, as planned, with a Bachelor of Arts in Marketing.
I started my job search a little while before I graduated, and was still looking for the right job into the summer. Then one day Kevin Parks called and said he might have a marketing job for me with a start up company called own a coder. I was really interested and with in a week I went to Texas to check it out. I met many of the key people in the company and a few days later, on Friday, July 18th 2008, I became the first official employee of OAC!
I am currently working full time from Minnesota, but I’m in constant contact with everyone working in Texas to get this company up and running. My roles include anything dealing with marketing and sales. I have also taken up working on the legal logistics of starting this company. And recently Tony has expressed his need for me to take up more of a management role in the company as he works on keeping the company financially afloat.
I am psyched to be working with this company, and I’m excited to see what the future brings for OAC.
