Arif Samad Email & Phone Number

Rancho Cordova, California, Us

Bellevue, Washington, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

Focused on Discovery, Modernizing, Building & Delivery of Member Products for the Federal Employee Program

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

• Utilizing Design Thinking processes and techniques in collaboration with business and technology leaders and practitioners• Ensuring that customer insights are applied to proposed features and functionality for a portfolio of digital products, building consensus around design strategy and thinking.• Serve as an advocate for the customer; collaborate with product teams to ensure that customer needs have equal weight with business value and technological feasibility• Lead and facilitate discovery workshops aimed at teasing out pain points and key customer needs• Facilitate, identify, track and measure key success metrics• Utilize project coordination expertise to manage schedule, risks/issues and budget within assigned area• Assist in building and maintaining design strategy practice

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Create the vision for developing, communicating, and implementing the user experience roadmap• Inspire and mentor others on the User Experience team• Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes, user interface specifications• Initiate and manage user experience research and testing processes• Conduct analyses of real usage data to inform user experience optimization efforts• Drive the development and communication of design patterns and guidelines• Oversee close coordination with the product management team to develop a shared vision and then lead a process to define the experience and design to deliver on the product’s objectives• Partner with the technology team to ensure we leverage the scale offered by our platform without compromising on core experiential principles• Work strategically with other executives and team members across the organization

Dallas, Tx, Us

• Produce user flows, wireframes, prototypes & user interface specifications• Collaborate with designers and engineers to build features and tools needed to drive efficiency/consistency• Contribute to, and curate, design patterns and best practices.• Use diverse inputs to identify and define exciting new concepts, opportunities, and customer problems.• Present concepts and solutions effectively to Senior Executives• Lead brainstorming sessions and design reviews.• Stay on the cutting edge of what’s new in technology and user experience, identifying opportunities to and experimenting with applying new technologies and interaction patterns to customer problems.• Evangelize concepts to a diverse audience, in both ad-hoc and formal presentations.• Collaborate with cross functional teams to have a solid understanding of our customer behaviors and impacts of new designs.

Tampa, Fl, Us

Consulting for AT&T through KForce, I worked as an Information Architect (IA) and User Experience Designer (UX) for designing websites and mobile applications in support for AT&T B2B E-commerce platform. Key Skills:User Experience Design, Wireframes, Interactive Prototypes

Certificate In Software Product Management, Software Product Management

Master'S Degree, Information Systems & Applications

Bachelor Of Computer Science, Computer Science