Danielle Thompson

Design Match

Connecting amazing talent, with ambitious startups.

Founder

StubHub

• Led the complete overhaul of the point of sale (POS) system, focusing on user-centric redesign for streamlined operations.
• Commanded design strategy for high-stakes industry deals, delivering compelling visuals for key partnerships.
• Optimized and governed the design system, ensuring consistency for enhanced brand coherence and development speed.

Senior Designer

No Capital, LLC

Vice Chairman Of The Board

Studio Moku

http://studiomoku.com

Danielle is a seasoned UX/UI product designer, specializing in the fintech market. Collectively she's helped companies raise over 18 million in seed and VC Funding in the last two years. Her interfaces have serviced over 100 million users. Data drive Danielle's designs and are often powered by React. She believes in staying lean and testing regularly. Danielle works well in small teams and with first-time founders.

Toptal

User Experience Designer

• Effectively represented and marketed the Toptals employment brand, the organization's business objectives and career opportunities to potential candidates
• Summarized candidate's strengths and needs relative to role and to culture at Toptal 
• Readily identified and address objections; assed when to pursue or withdraw
• Built long-term candidate relationships

Recruiter

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

• Guided the development of cloud-based sample analysis tools for scientists, physicians, and researchers, enhancing workflows.
• Designed innovative systems to connect to the St. Jude Cloud ecosystem, improving data management.
• Managed and visualized complex medical data, including genomic data, to support better sample analysis.
• Created new workflows and tools for improved sample analysis in the cloud.

Product Owner

Moonfare

• Spearheaded the transition to Jira for design processes, resulting in a significant performance boost.
• Restructured the design team to enhance efficiency and collaboration.
• Played a pivotal role in fostering design-led thinking and expanding the corporate workforce during Moonfare's growth from 70 to 300 employees.

Head of Design

Dream Team

Chief Operating Officer

Livesport

• Launched a new product with over one million visitors within its first year.
• Rebuilt the existing product using a modular system, optimizing development time.
• Managed project timelines, estimates, and milestones.
• Executed design implementation within three months by collaborating with developers.

Lead Product Designer

Blackboard

• Led research initiatives and created new design processes to enhance user experience.
• Developed cross-platform secure encryption module and designed user flows and prototypes.
• Utilized internal analytics and third-party data to rework design ideas for optimal results.

Lead UX Desigenr

Talent is everywhere, opportunity is not.

I've dedicated my professional life to bridging this gap, creating more opportunities for creative individuals worldwide.

Currently building -  Design Match (http://designmatch.io), a platform that connects designers with exciting work opportunities in startups.

I've created spaces like Design Club for creatives to connect, and Dream Team to link startups with stellar product teams. Freelance Travel Network teaches freelancers to seek inspired work. Each endeavour works towards my ethos: "Empower creators to craft a better world."

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Frontend Engineer

SketchDeck

•	Working in an agency type environment contributing to a wide variety of applications.
•	Contributed to several CMS applications including Wordpress, Webflow, Ceros, Sanity.io and more.
•	Coordinate with designers to transfer Figma designs to web implementations using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.
•	Handling all verbal and written communications between hosting companies, clients, and vendors.
•	Setup and maintain domain, hosting, SSL for several sites.
•	Perform monthly and periodic maintenance on several sites.
•	Implement web optimization and SEO for better website quality.

Web Developer

Savvas Learning Company

- Build a UI component library using StencilJS, Storybook, Angular 12, SCSS  and HTML.
- Implemented Storybook preview site for UI components.
- Setup Github Actions workflow for automated build and deployment process to Github Pages.
- Work with the design team to integrate the DSM design library to Storybook UI Components.
- Setup Webpack as module bundler to preprocess and minify different files such as TypeScript and SCSS files.
- Participated  in Agile process, Attend Daily Stand-up Meetings (Scrum), Sprint Planning Meetings and Requirement Review Meetings to analyze requirements for each story card in a sprint.
- Work with accessibility testing tools to scan new development for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance before code checkin.

Frontend Developer

Milwaukee Tool

■	Contributed to a large scale, customer facing web applications with Sitecore CMS
■	Implemented SItecore MVC design pattern for developing the Web Application.
■	Responsible for building interactive front end components
■	Extensively used TDS for item synchronization between Sitecore and TFS inside Visual Studio.
■	Extensively used View Renderings and Controller Renderings.
■	Extensively used Glass Mapper ORM.
■	Involved in cloud deployment using azure management portal
■	Utilized Git, Gitflow to manage version control and collaboration with other developers.
■	Worked with Azure DevOps to captures requirements, Backlog items, Pull Requests and Sprint board
■	Work effectively and maintain constant communication with other developers, QA regarding bugs and issues, departments and vendors
■	Worked with TealiumIQ and Google Tag Manager to capture user interaction for analysis by marketing team.
■	Working knowledge of SOLR and Coveo

Saasmatic inc

■	Used React, Redux, Typescript, Semantic-UI for developing client-side application.
■	Interacted with Ruby on Rails backend and REST API to build dynamic user interfaces.
■	Utilized Semantic-UI, HTML, CSS, and SCSS to make sure application is responsive.
■	Responsible for containerizing web application using Docker and managing CI using Jenkins.
■	Used Github and Slack to collaborate with other developers on the team.
■	Worked in an agile team using Scrum methodology.
■	Maintained clean and well documented source code using Github for version control.

Senior Frontend Developer

Kaiser Permanente

■	Built several Wordpress Multi-site network with custom themes.
■	Modify and customize plugins to accomplish client’s need.
■	Utilized HTML5, CSS3, JQuery and PHP to develop user interface.
■	Used Bootstrap to handle responsive layouts for mobile.
■	Worked with PHPMyAdmin to store and retrieve dynamic company data.

USPTO

■	Utilized HTML5, CSS3, and Javascript to develop UX/UI for Web Applications.
■	Worked with Angular to implement MVC On the client side.
■	Worked with npm commands and using package.json for managing dependencies of Node.js applications.
■	Used Bootstrap and Angular Material to create responsive layouts.
■	Managed 508 Compliance for the application including corresponding with government clients regularly to make sure application is meeting section 508 compliance requirements.
■	Involved in Agile process, Attend Daily Stand-up Meetings (Scrum), Sprint Planning Meetings and Requirement Review Meetings to analyze requirements for each story card in a sprint.

CoStar Group

■	Managed several Corporate Sites and Microsites.
■	Worked with CMS systems including Wordpress and Sitefinity.
■	Hand coded responsive email templates and managed email campaigns through Exact Target, and Mail Chimp.
■	Utilized MySQL and phpMyAdmin for storing and manipulating company data.
■	Setup Google Analytics and Google Goal Conversion for several sites to collect site usage data.
■	Managed Domain acquisition, Hosting setup, web forwarding and renewals for several domains.
■	Utilized HTML5, CSS, Javascript, PHP and Bootstrap for building responsive, cross browser compatible sites.

U.S. Department of Labor

■	Built User Interface designs for all devices in Photoshop.
■	Implemented responsive design comps using HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
■	Helped improve and convert existing application to PHP and CodeIgnitor framework.
■	Utilized Wave Tool, Compliance Sheriff and other tools to improve 508 compliance and accessibility issues of the site. 
■	Used Git/Github to collaborate with other developers.
■	Created several SDLCM Documentation to help with re-architecture efforts.
■	Developed Test plans, Test Procedures to help test the application before deployment.

Rennzer

■	Utilized HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript to develop user interface for Web Applications.
■	Converting designs into responsive, cross browser compatible Web Applications.
■	Used Bootstrap to create responsive layouts.
■	Used JavaScript and jQuery to add functionality to web applications.

■	Over 10 Years of experience as a Web Developer, including 3+ years of experience working with modern technologies like Angular, NodeJS, Express and Typescript.
■	Experience building Restful API’s utilizing NodeJs and Express.
■	Extensive experience using JavaScript, JQuery, AJAX, HTML5, CSS3/SASS, Bootstrap and Foundation
■	Familiar with using ReactJS and Redux for building Single-Page Applications (SPA).
■	Good understanding and working experience of the MVC design pattern.
■	Experience with dynamic data visualization tools like D3.js and ChartsJs.
■	Experience with containerization using Docker and Continuous Integration using Jenkins.
■	Experience in using version control tools like GIT, SVN, Source Tree.
■	Experience in using various project management tools like Azure DevOps, JIRA, Rally Agile COE, Wrike etc.
■	Experience working in Agile teams using Scrum and Kanban frameworks.
■	Experience building web applications using LAMP stack.
■	Good knowledge of Content Management System (CMS) - WordPress, Sitecore and Sitefinity.
■	Experience with responsive front-end frameworks like Bootstrap and Foundation Zurb.
■	Extensively worked on cross-browser and cross-platform compatible solutions with responsive
■	web design.
■	Good understanding of 508 compliance.
■	Self-starter and able to work independently, as well as, a highly motivated team member with good communications skills.

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