Full Stack Designer & Creator
#UIUX, creator, photographer 📷, lifelong learner, #denverbroncos | #seattleseahawks 🏈, occasionally hunt edible fungus, gambler, IRL & digital artist 🎨, cook 🌮, YouTuber, & most importantly... dad 😃.
Currently working as Lead UI/UX for Apple in Seattle, Washington.
I am a full stack designer based out of Seattle, WA. Jumping into the Wayback Machine... out of high school... I started my career as a fine artist and abstract acrylic painter. After completing my Associates Degree, I moved to Denver to study Graphic/Web Design at the Art Institute of Colorado focusing on the basics of design, color theory, layout, typography, and more. This built the foundation for what was to become my true passion, user experience and product design.
Fast forward to present day, I now have decades of hands-on real world experience in user experience, product design, user research, usability testing, and design systems. I have worked with a wide range of companies from Fortune 500 to start-ups. I've also worked across a wide range of industries: apparel, health care, banking, energy markets, retail, technology, and others.
I'm not as active as I used to be on YouTube, but I started a channel awhile back to begin sharing with others my experience around design and UX. YouTube.com/ThomasWicker. I definitely have plans to continue this moving forward. I have had so much positive feedback from others in the community ❤️
Aside from all the work stuff... I am a father of two beautiful and healthy girls that keep me on my toes and my life well balanced and meaningful. I love spending every free moment that I can with them.
I enjoy cooking and experimenting with different cuisines. I enjoy a good Texas Hold'em cash game in Vegas, cheering on the Broncos or Seahawks in full face paint, and I love to travel when time permits. Seeing the world gives you perspective and helps inspire creativity on a different level.
I also love to learn, learn, and learn some more! Life is a short ride... and my motto is to always be learning.
Thomas is truly a worker that loves his craft. I've seen him work harder than those hungry first year career employees, despite the fact that he has nothing to prove. I would highly recommend him in any role knowing fully that he will rise to the occasion, and enjoy every moment of it.
~ Cody Palmer - Senior Developer - Lending Home
Thomas is truly an indispensable employee at Enverus due to his experience as a Front End Developer and a Designer. His eye for design is unmatched, and I have personally learned an immense amount from working with him. He’s able to problem solve design issues and propose solutions that within the existing technical constraints.
~ Alyssa Andersen - UX Designer - Enverus
Thomas is one of those front-end developers that every team hopes to have. He is artistic, can do design, responsive layouts, and UI/UX work. Additionally he knows javascript, ruby, haml, sass, and git. As a mid-tier developer, it was a pleasure to collaborate with Thomas.
~ Rob Christie - Senior Developer - Oppenheimer Funds
Thomas is an extremely gifted and creative individual. If you are looking for a quality designer or general marketing professional, you cannot go wrong by adding him to your team. Thomas is a highly productive, intelligent, and flexible person who will help raise the quality of any team he is a part of.
~ Chris Aron - Executive - SAP
Thomas is an extremely talented developer and technical professional. His contributions to the team, including both development and technical leadership, enabled numerous capabilities within our digital properties. As an individual contributor, Thomas is a strong developer, with great communication skills.
~ Nick Apel - Director - Transamerica
Thomas is a detail oriented designer with great imagination. He was responsible for the majority of our custom CRM system and managed the UI/UX for just about every front end project at Cricket. He's such a valuable member of our contracting team that we brought him on full time at Cricket. I would highly recommend him for any UI/UX work.
~ Richard Cook - Senior Developer - Cricket Communications
I was brought on to Thomas's development team in late 2013 and with his guidance as team-lead we successfully delivered a robust, Enterprise User-Interface for Cricket Wireless. Thomas possessed excellent leadership skills as a project-manager, and as a colleague he was essential in excelling the project above and beyond the initial scope.
~ Michael Bowlin - Senior Developer - Cricket Wireless
Thomas is very adept at quickly learning what we needed from a graphics perspective, despite hazy directive. He always delivered on-time or ahead of time and his work was top quality. I look forward to asking Thomas to work on future projects...
~ Allie Golon - Executive - The Regis Company
Whether it's design, websites, UI/UX, or photography — I'd love to work with you. Please fill out the form below and include as many details as you can about your project. I will do my best to get back to you within 24-48 hours.
