Verona Gillespie

I lead a team of 8 developers and together we build fully custom designed and developed Shopify+ websites

I developped an in-house Shopify base theme to springboard all of our projects, with a consistent codebase, to reduce developer code churn allowing, and the team to focus on animations, custom functions and user experience instead of copy-pasting Shopify snippets from Stack Overflow.

They call me the fixer. (They don't but they could).

Working with a distributed team, I build, repair, enhance and modify full customized Shopify stores, beautifully designed and developed for the crafting community.

Working closely with in-house designers and project management, developed custom, award winning WordPress sites for international brands.

Used ACF, Gutenberg and the classic editor to manipulate content on the back, and front-end

Collaborated with JS and React developers to create custom components for interactive experiences

Working closely with the backend team, I build and style all the front-end views for a new web-based, Angular.js drafting application for hockey teams across all leagues

Working with a distributed team, in Los Angeles and abroad, I am customizing front end experiences for their white labelled web-app, on a per client basis, as well as advising on overall improvements to UX

Designing new UX flows, visual designs and UI frameworks for customer facing ordering systems, and enterprise administration systems for web/SAAS appliations

Worked with in-house marketing teams to design and develop appealing, converting landing pages for a custom crowdfunding style platform launching interest in High Times Magazine shares.

• Consulted as relief developer specializing in SEO and sales conversions, responsible for completing unfinished projects and maintaining online client stores, sales funnel landing pages and ad campaigns.
• Increased front-end efficiency and cost-effectiveness by collaborating with project management team to reduce technical debt on older sites.
• Created custom Shopify themes for new clients, including NailandBone.com.

• Founded and manage successful company providing front-end wordpress, graphic design, WordPress, UX flows, and UI wordpress to corporations, agencies, startups, and nonprofits.
• Build and optimize easy-to-use, accessible, and exciting web and mobile user experiences that improve conversions.
• Collaborate with clients to determine requirements, coded website layouts in compliant code, and updated older sites to ensure cross-browser compatibility.
• Constantly communicate with design, marketing, event teams and executives to ensure goals for required details, deadlines, and visual appeal are met.
• Developed web and mobile-friendly sites, and create digital brands customized for a company’s visual aesthetic.
• Converted online voting visuals into immersive and fully responsive experience for American Idol/FOX.
• Devised technical specs, user flows and timelines for wordpress of custom WordPress plugins. Worked closed with backend developers to bring new functions to fruition.