Jamal A. Gillespie
ECS Federal,
July 2022 – Present
Lead UX/UI Designer
Currently, Mr. Gillespie is a highly skilled UX/UI designer
who utilizes a variety of design tools and techniques to deliver exceptional user experiences
for his clients. He possesses a wealth of experience using Adobe CS, Balsamiq, wireframes, and
mockups to develop and refine the design of websites and applications. In his current role,
Mr. Gillespie works closely with DISA product managers to develop visual proof of concepts for DISA Marketplace functionality.
He is responsible for creating interactive wireframes, lo-res and hi-res designs, prototype designs, scenario maps, process diagrams,
and mental models. In addition to design work, Mr. Gillespie is also a skilled leader and collaborator.
He leads design meetings with developers and product stakeholders to ensure the accuracy of application designs and timely delivery of contract deliverables He has also worked as a graphic designer to ensure DISA branded product design followed government standards. Mr. Gillespie's ability to combine technical expertise with his leadership and collaboration skills make him a valuable asset to his clients and the industry as a whole. His dedication to delivering high-quality user experiences ensures that his clients' applications are not only visually appealing but also intuitive and easy to use.
SevaTec/Octo,
June 2020 – June 2022
UX/UI Designer
Front End Developer
Mr. Gillespie worked as an UX/UI and frontend developer using Adobe XD, Adobe CS, Figma,
Angular2+ and Drupal 9 during his time at The United States General Administration Services (GSA). This involved regular web design utilizing HTML5,
JavaScript, RESTful API's, and other related technologies. As part of his daily responsibilities, Mr. Gillespie created content for www.gsaadvantage.gov
and developed empathy maps, mental maps and user personas. He was also responsible for creating headless Drupal 9/Angular frontend applications.
In addition, Mr. Gillespie conducted code reviews, design reviews workflow management reviews to ensure quality control. Throughout his tenure at GSA,
he exhibited a deep understanding of web development technologies and demonstrated his ability to apply this knowledge to achieve project objectives.
His technical expertise, combined with his dedication to mentoring junior designers and developers, made him a valuable asset to the organization. As a UX/UI designer,
Mr. Gillespie ensured that the applications he worked on had an exceptional user experience. He leveraged his knowledge of related technologies to create user-centered
designs that met the needs of the clients while providing a seamless user experience for their customers. His proficiency in design tools such as wireframing and mockups,
allowed him to effectively communicate design ideas to stakeholders and collaborate
with developers to ensure that the final product met the highest quality standards.
Trevital,
March 2020 – June 2020
UX/UI Designer
Front End Developer
Mr. Gillespie was contracted as a Drupal 8 as
designer/developer and tasked with building and maintaining front-end applications for
the United States Health and Human Services administration and Trevital.com. This
required wireframing, a strong knowledge of Drupal 8 theming templates and both back and
front-end Application development. Other responsibilities included hand-coding custom
prototypes demos, wireframe designs and troubleshooting development bugs. Mr. Gillespie
was also responsible working with full stack backend focused developers while
recommending and leading content web flow architecture.
Deloitte,
May 2018 – Dec 2019
UX/UI Designer
Web Developer
Mr. Gillespie has worked with Adobe CS, AngularJS and
Anuglar2+, designing, developing, and maintaining the front-end for the United States
Senate FMIS web application. This required regular UX/UI web design and development with
HTML5, CSS3, MongoDB, JavaScript, microservices and more. Additional responsibilities
included hand-coding custom directives, modules, and controllers while supporting
end-user development request and troubleshooting development bugs. Mr. Gillespie was
also responsible for creating custom data workflow architecture, implementing hand-drawn
low-res mockups into fully functioning webpage layouts.
Mr. Gillespie also works with Drupal 7, building and maintaining the front-end for the
United States Department of Transportation Bureau of Transportation Statistics.
Responsibilities include hand coding Drupal themes, creating custom content types,
integrating Tableau visualizations and invoking web API’s. This requires development in
PHP, JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5. He also works directly with graphic designers to
create hi-res mock-ups while creating virtual prototypes. When not working on the UI/UX
Mr. Gillespie works closely with project owners and clients as a front end/Drupal
Subject Matter Expert.
Tsymmetry,
May 2017 – May 2018
UX/UI Designer
Drupal Developer/O&M
Mr. Gillespie has worked with Drupal 8, designing and
maintaining front and backend SEC.gov while at the Security Exchange Commission (SEC).
This required regular development using Syfmony2, PHP 5.6 and above, TWIG, JavaScript,
MySQL and more. His responsibilities included custom theming and module development.
Supporting end-user development request. Performing data and content migrations.
Troubleshooting development bugs and issues. Implementing new and custom functionality.
Creating custom data workflow architecture. Mr. Gillespie also performed unit,
integration, regression and release testing to ensure quality assurance. Bi-weekly he
would perform peer code reviews and assist in sprint planning while managing team
development meetings.
ICF International,
August 2016 – May 2017
UX/UI Software Engineer – Senior Consultant
Mr. Gillespie has worked on Drupal 7 projects, building
front and backend websites as well as headless applications. This required AngularJS,
jQuery, HTML5, CSS3, Twitter Bootstrap, 508 compliance and more. His responsibilities
included hand-coding custom modules development and themes, wire-framing mock-up designs
and layouts. He would frequently use popular Drupal modules such as, but not limited to
Views, Webforms, CCK, Features, Simple news, Rules, Workflow Moderation, CTools Token,
Entity, Panels, Organic Groups, Google Analytics and many more. He has also managed
versioning using SVN and GIT.
These projects involved working directly with the National Institute of Health (NIH)
where he inherited (researchtoreality.cancer.gov), Health and Human Services
(childcareta.acf.hhs.gov), Center of Disease Control (smokefree.gov) and various other
internal projects simultaneously. As a lead developer, Mr. Gillespie was responsible for
front and backend development, data/content migration, theming, custom module
maintenance, user training, data analytics, user testing, debugging and more. Not only
has Mr. Gillespie has been the lead developer on these various sites, but he has also
been responsible for site management. This requires him to ensure site uptime, solve
complex functionality issues and manage end-user accounts.
Booz Allen Hamilton,
December 2013 – August 2016
UX/UI Software Engineer – Senior Associate
Mr. Gillespie has worked on classified projects, building
Drupal 7 and AngularJS application front and backends. This required PHP5, AngularJS,
jQuery, HTML5 CSS3, Twitter Bootstrap and more. His responsibilities included
hand-coding development, hi and low-resolution mock-up designs and layouts. He also
developed UI/UX models and structuring application workflows. He has also created data
models and other technologies including but not limited to GruntJS, NodeJS MongoDB,
MySQL and more.
As a Senior AngularJS developer, Mr. Gillespie developed many IoT applications, some of
which have been featured on Booz Allen Hamilton Zone. The [application name
confidential] application focused on the monitoring real-time of vital and health data
of first responders through wearable monitors while in live emergency responses. Main
responsibilities included creating controllers, directives, services, providers,
modules, routing, dependency injection, live big data analysis, data modeling,
responsive frontend web design and development, NodeJS backend configuration, source
code unit testing and debugging, repo management and more.
He has successfully migrated large Drupal applications such as FDA Elexnet. To do this,
Mr. Gillespie had worked with created custom modules and themes along with custom
integration techniques not provided by Drupal. He also was responsible for integrating
Drupal to work with Active Directory and Organic Groups. He has worked in both Windows
and RHEL operating systems in order to perform data migrations, manage versioning using
GIT, forked modules while managing both production and development environments.
Mr. Gillespie was also the Lead Drupal Developer for the E-commerce VA broker project.
He worked with designers to develop frontend, backend and theme development. Mr.
Gillespie has created complex custom taxonomies to enhance site search and indexing. He
also managed site products, content tagging using Drupal taxonomies system and created
an online marketplace with custom functionality using Ubercart and custom module
development. Mr. Gillespie created user workflows with custom integration not provided
by Ubercart while also integrating Drupal to work with Active Directory and Organic
Groups. This also required data migration of files and content, managed versioning using
GIT and managing development and production environments.