Thomas McGee

Product Strategy · Experience Design · End-to-End Delivery

Summary

Product leader and SaaS founder who defines what software should do, how it should work, and what it takes to deliver a coherent experience. Led product, development, and support for NotablePress, a creator-software business later sold, and owned strategy, experience design, and launch across five SaaS products. Combines product judgment, technical depth, and iterative testing to guide products from concept through release and refinement.

Product highlights: Led NotablePress through nearly seven years of operation and its sale. Created TeachKit, a learning product available in the Kit App Store.

Experience

Senior Software Engineer, IWS Sales

Jun 2025 - Present · Mountain Home, Idaho

• Created Label Store, used company-wide to customize labels, generate PDFs, and route orders through supervisor approval to printing. Replaced manual Illustrator work and back-and-forth emails with one ordering and fulfillment workflow.
• Designed and built a Next.js customer PWA supplied on iPads with qualifying vehicle purchases. Switching vehicles changes records, maintenance information, guides, videos, and companion-app links; a separate custom admin manages each customer’s experience. Also works on customers’ phones.
• Created Company Web, a custom Next.js app used company-wide on desktop and work phones, combining social-style updates, video, comments, and reactions with an employee directory and leadership-managed documentation.
• Owned the public vehicle catalog and daily inventory/publishing system. The site averages 40k monthly page views across all 48 states and Canada. Directed agent-assisted implementation through specifications, iterative testing, and release review.

Founder & Product Engineer, Makeable Brand LLC

Jun 2024 - Present · Boise, Idaho (Remote)

• Owned product strategy, scope, user experience, and launch across five SaaS products, including TeachKit, Startboard, and Radarist.
• Created and launched TeachKit, a learning product in the Kit App Store. Chose a video-and-action lesson structure and generated course pages to remove setup work for teachers while giving students a clear path to practice.
• Later removed TeachKit's subscription charge so creators could publish free or paid courses without a monthly TeachKit fee. Also launched independent products spanning project planning, privacy-first mobile video, and local publishing.

Senior WordPress Developer, Red Edge, LLC

Aug 2022 - Jun 2024 · Remote

• Delivered around 20 builds and redesigns for campaigns, advocacy groups, and nonprofits, translating client and stakeholder needs into usable publishing experiences under election-cycle deadlines.

Founder and Senior Product Designer, NotablePress

Oct 2015 - Apr 2022 · Boise, Idaho

• Led product direction, development, and customer support for a creator-publishing business serving tens of thousands of users through nearly seven years of operation and its eventual sale.
• Shaped a portfolio of 12 themes and seven plugins. Chose a form-driven setup for the flagship theme to simplify WordPress configuration and let creators launch complete sites in minutes.
• Partnered with three creators on products for their audiences that collectively generated thousands of sales; managed two customer-support representatives.

Video Producer, Delicious Brains

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · Remote

• Explained developer software and its workflows through 12+ product and tutorial videos for Advanced Custom Fields, WP Migrate Pro, WP Offload Media, and SpinupWP.

Brand Designer, WordPress Developer, and Videographer, Rightly & Co.

Jan 2014 - Jan 2021 · Remote

• Ran a seven-year client studio, shaping creative direction and delivering brand and web work for authors and businesses including Amazon, Full Focus, Filmpac, and Harvest House Publishers.

Graphic Designer, WinePress Group

May 2005 - Apr 2013 · Washington State

• Designed 1,000+ book covers over eight years and expanded into design management, guiding other designers and broader creative output.

Product and Technical Capabilities

Product: Product strategy, problem definition, scope and prioritization, experience and workflow design, specifications, prototyping, usability evaluation, iterative delivery.

Design and technical depth: Interaction and visual design, React/Next.js, TypeScript, databases and integrations, WordPress, agent-assisted development.

Selected Independent Work

Game project, in development: Directing systems design, player experience, and agent-assisted implementation; using iterative testing to refine behavior and balance.

Teaching and Education

Featured in GoDaddy Pro's Winning with WordPress series for custom WordPress development. Studied Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Seattle (2004–2005).