Jesse Thompson Email & Phone Number

Windsor, On, Ca

I design software that makes life easier for mortgage shoppers, referral partners, and internal team members.

Windsor, Ontario, Ca

I mentor and advise entrepreneurs about business ideas, prototyping, product design, software, and entrepreneurship.

Windsor, On, Ca

Part-time college instructor teaching UI Fundamentals for the Mobile Application Development program. Designed the course to help students learn UI/UX best practices, rapid prototyping, and iterating products based on user testing.

Edmonton , Alberta, Ca

QuoteToMe is a startup business that helps streamline and automate the construction material supply chain for construction companies across Canada. Using QuoteToMe's mobile app, companies can source quotes from multiple suppliers, award digital purchase orders to the chosen supplier, track the deliver of goods, scan receipt of goods documents and invoices from anywhere, and integrate all of this with their favourite accounting software.At QuoteToMe, I was responsible for designing and improving upon the entire user experience from the mobile app to the marketing website and emails. As a startup, speed to market was a top priority for the company. We were able to prototype new product concepts rapidly, test concepts with real users on a regular cadence, incorporate user feedback, and achieve business goals to the point of becoming revenue positive and achieving further venture capital investment.QuoteToMe has done a great job at attracting and retaining highly talented individuals who are able to move very quickly. Working with them was an incredible experience that I will always cherish.

Windsor, Ca

Created a company that makes the end-to-end vehicle buying process quick, personalized, and frictionless. Achieved many significant milestones within a few short months including:• Created high-fidelity prototypes to test with users• Gained product-market direction through user demos and customer pre-sales• Won first place at the RBC Founders demo/pitch competition• Built a world-class product team• Won Tech Startup of the Year from WEtech Alliance• Won 2nd place at the DTE Bright Ideas and ScaleUP pitch competitions• Got accepted into the top business accelerator in Canada

Windsor, Ontario, Ca

• Helped scale the team from 2 to 23 employees within 2 years• Managed designers and developers to create software products for top brands across the U.S. and Canada• Produced UX deliverables and designs to kickoff project visions and plans in collaboration with clients • Introduced the use of pre-visualization software (Sketch and Adobe XD) to prototype products for client approval before development• Drove organizational change with cross-functional stakeholders to establish best practices that improved company-wide productivity, efficiency, and profitability

Windsor, Ontario, Ca

Lead Project Manger at a digital agency that creates mobile apps, games, web apps and websites for SMEs and Fortune 500 companies such as General Motors, Disney, Caesars Entertainment, and Lowes Home Improvement. Introduced best practices in project management that helped the company improve efficiency and complete projects on time and on budget while maintaining a high level of quality.

Project Management, Sales, Print Design, Web Design, Installations

Founded PassionPick and created a web app that creates informational interviews and collects key data about on variety of careers to convey a "day in the life" experience and clear understanding of what it would truly be like to work in a particular occupation. The application helped hundreds of young people choose a career and design a life for themselves that they love. We shadowed and interviewed hundreds of professionals from a large variety of occupations to produce multiple "day in the life" style videos to show people what it was really like to have that occupation. We accompanied the videos with multiple sources of data, derived from both primary and secondary research, and displayed the data in a concise, easy to read, infographic manner. The result was hundreds of occupational profiles in which people of all ages could access in order to help them decide on a career path to pursue.

Assisted in the management of a Toronto student residence that houses 400+ students while studying a post-graduate degree full-time.

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

• Designed the UX and UI for a new web application product• Demonstrated solid visual awareness with an understanding of basic design principles like typography, layout, composition, and colour theory

Co-founder, writer, and editor of the Business Design Association - a popular blog that teaches business and design professionals about design thinking and the integration of business and design - www.businessdesignassociation.com.• Wrote popular blog articles and book reviews for the Rotman School of Business at the University of Toronto• Lead marketing efforts on social media

Windsor, On, Ca

• Designed print and web design products for small and medium-sized businesses• Demonstrated solid visual awareness with understanding of basic design principles like typography, layout, composition, and colour theory

Worked as a sign maker creating, designing and installing alltypes of signs. Learned from the most experienced sign maker in the Windsor area.

Windsor, On, Ca

Worked as a media consultant selling graphic design work to companies in the Windsor, Ontario area.

Evanston, Il, Us

Spent one year in Brazil. Learned fluent Portuguese and travelled across Brazil to promote a mutual understanding of Canadian and Brazilian culture.

Product Design, User Experience Design

Post-Graduate Certificate, Design Management

Graphic Design, Graphic Design

Certificate, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies

Entrepreneurship 101, Entrepreneurship, Tech Startups, Large Web Applications Development