Thomas McGee

Summary

Full-stack designer and developer with 20+ years building brands, websites, and software products from concept through launch. Founded 5 SaaS products and a service studio, sold a WordPress theme business, and now designs and builds production Next.js applications end-to-end, including a catalog-driven luxury dealership platform serving customers nationwide.

Skills

Design

UI/UX Design, Brand Identity, Wireframing & Prototyping, Book Cover Design, Illustration, Print Design

Development

Next.js, React, TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, SCSS, HTML/CSS, MongoDB, PHP, WordPress

Tools

Figma, Claude Code, Codex, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere, Final Cut Pro, Capcut, OBS Studio, GitHub

Experience

Senior Designer & Developer, IWS Sales

Jun 2025 - Present · Mountain Home, Idaho

• Designed and built iwssales.com end-to-end on a Next.js, MongoDB, and Cloudflare stack, a catalog-driven luxury motorcoach and adventure vehicle site with real-time inventory sorting, dynamic testimonials, integrated video, and unit pricing up to $700k+
• Site serves customers across all 48 states and Canada and averages 40k monthly page views with steady growth since launch, contributing to reported sales lift and unprompted customer feedback on speed and quality
• Hand-coded a custom admin CMS and inventory management system from scratch without a backend framework, used daily by the IWS team to manage inventory, media, content, and testimonials
• Designed and built elkvalleyresort.com, a markdown/MDX-powered Next.js site for the company’s golf and RV resort property launching in 2026
• Operated as sole designer and developer across all product and software work, designing every project in Figma before implementation and maintaining a consistent design system across the IWS site, admin CMS, and resort site

Founder, Makeable Brand LLC

Jun 2024 - Jun 2025 · Boise, Idaho (Remote)

• Designed, built, and shipped 5 SaaS products as a solo founder, including TeachKit (1,000+ teachers and students), Startboard (1,000+ users), and Radarist (1,000+ solo professionals and creators)
• Owned the full lifecycle end to end across product strategy, UX, Next.js and TypeScript implementation, branding, marketing, and launch, using AI-assisted workflows to compress design-to-ship cycles
• Delivered dozens of client sites in parallel, including custom WordPress rebuilds that replaced Elementor and Divi sites with hand-coded implementations that reduced ongoing management overhead

Senior WordPress Developer, Red Edge, LLC

Aug 2022 - Jun 2024 · Remote

• Delivered around 20 builds and redesigns for political campaigns, advocacy groups, and nonprofits, operating under tight election-cycle deadlines with multi-stakeholder review
• Designed and built a ground-up custom site for a nonprofit previously relying on a link-in-bio page, with strategically placed calls to action for free resources and donations, becoming the primary destination for traffic driven by the client’s national news appearances

Founder and Senior Product Designer, NotablePress

Oct 2015 - Apr 2022 · Boise, Idaho

• Built and sold a WordPress theme and plugin business serving tens of thousands of users across authors, coaches, and speakers after about 7 years of operation
• Designed and shipped 12 themes and 7 plugins across free and paid tiers, including the flagship Notable Press theme, a form-driven setup system that let creators launch full WordPress sites in minutes
• Partnered with three creators on custom-designed themes promoted to their own audiences, collectively generating thousands of sales across all partnerships
• Led product, development, and support, managing two support representatives and co-hosting bi-monthly webinars with a business partner that consistently drove thousands in sales per session

Video Producer, Delicious Brains

Jan 2021 - Jan 2022 · Remote

• Wrote, voiced, and edited 12+ promotional and tutorial videos for Advanced Custom Fields, WP Migrate Pro, WP Offload Media, and SpinupWP, each of which saw sales lift following release
• Multiple videos crossed 50k+ views and outperformed the channel’s prior content by 10x+
• The SpinupWP homepage video I produced remains in active use as a core part of the product’s web presence years after launch

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

Jan 2014 - Jan 2021 · Remote

• Ran a multidisciplinary studio for 7 years delivering brand systems, web rebuilds, custom WordPress builds, book cover design, and video production, with clients including Amazon, Michael Hyatt (former Chairman & CEO, Thomas Nelson Publishers), Full Focus, Filmpac, and Harvest House Publishers
• Designed book covers for Stormie Omartian, a top-selling Harvest House author with multiple New York Times bestsellers

Senior Graphic Designer, WinePress Group

May 2005 - Apr 2013 · Washington State

• Designed 1,000+ book covers over 8 years as WinePress’s core cover designer for a publisher producing 100 to 200 titles per year
• Expanded into a design management role with responsibility for additional designers and broader creative output across catalogs, brochures, print collateral, conference materials, and author websites
• Built foundational craft in typography, layout, and visual hierarchy at a pace and volume that shaped a career-long discipline of clear communication

Teaching & Content

• Featured subject, GoDaddy’s Winning with WordPress series, produced video on custom WordPress development
• YouTube channel on design, development, and AI with 10k+ subscribers and 7-10 shorts per week across YouTube, TikTok, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and X
• Newsletter on design, development, productivity, and emerging tools with 2,500 subscribers

Education

Studied Graphic Design at The Art Institute of Seattle (2004–2005)