Riad Nassar
UX and Service Designer
1-512-287-0253 | riad_nassar@yahoo.com | http://riadnassar.x10host.com/
Experience
Manager | Akamai Innovations | Austin, TX
June 2022 – Present
- Increase production efficiency from 1 website/week to 1 website/day
- Hire and train new employees in Design, Development and Systems
- Streamline IT Updates to weekly stack improvements
- Design, build, test, and support websites for new clients
- Create and maintain 80% of documentation
- Reduce number of places documentation to central location
Web Designer & Developer | Akamai Innovations | Austin, TX
June 2021 – June 2022
- Design and build websites for new clients
- Support existing clients' websites
- Update website directories to help drive traffic to client sites
UX Design Teaching Assistant | Austin Community College | Austin, TX
July 2020 – Present
- Help Students learn and apply UX Design Principles
- Help students use software such as Figma, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
- Work on departmental Design projects that improve the service provided to students using UX and Service design techniques
- Increase student lab attendance by 40%
UX Design Consultant | Freelance | Austin, TX
May 2019 - July 2020
- Save clients time from poor ventures by conducting UX Research
- Identify usability issues in products through Heuristic Analysis
- Implement Design in Website
- Create Wireframes and Prototypes
- Test and Iterate throughout projects
Customer Success Representative | Consilience Software / Conduent | Austin, TX
December 2015 - October 2017
- Conduct contexual inqueries and gather user research and insights
- Mentor and hire new employees and train clients
- Work in cross-functional team to achieve deliverables
Natural Programmer Intern | Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts | Austin, TX
May 2015 - November 2015
- Write, Test, and Support code to collect and allocate revenue
- Gather Functional Requirements from business side
Volunteering
Coach / Mentor | LASA Robotics
September 2014 - Present
- Manage development of robot during entire development cycle
- Teach basic design principles
- Manage $10,000 budget over a 7 month period every year
- Manage a team of 30-40 students and 4 adults
Skills and Tools
Skills
User Centered Design, Web Design, Prototyping, Mentoring, Project Management, Conflict Resolution, Written and Oral Communication, Time Management, Concept Sketching, User Research
Tools
Wordpress, Adobe Illustrator, Invision, HTML/CSS, Sublime, JIRA, Trello, Github, Confluence, Subversion, Adobe Photoshop, Figma, Gimp, Inkscape, Moz, Slack, Teams, Miro
Education
Austin Community College | Austin, Texas - May 2019
A.A.S. User Experience Design
Austin College | Sherman, Texas - May 2013
B.A. Psychology w/ Minor in Computer Science
Certificates
Designing AI Assistants
Udemy | Online - October 2022
The Voice Course: UX, UI, Strategy & Design
Udemy | Online - October 2022
Advanced Product Management: Leadership & Communication
Udemy | Online - September 2022
Advanced Product Management: Vision, Strategy & Metrics
Udemy | Online - September 2022
Become a Product Manager: Learn the Skills & Get the Job
Udemy | Online - September 2022
Recommendations
"Riad's resume will tell you how talented and hard-working he is. What it won't show is that he's a wonderful human being."
-Molly Jones-Lewis, Lecturer at University of Maryland Baltimore County
Read More on LinkedIn"Riad strives to make this world a better place. His thoughtful design solutions coupled with his technological expertise really put him in a class of his own."
-Zohreh Daly, User Experience Designer and Founder of MaMA
Read More on LinkedIn"Riad is a delight to work with. He is eminently capable in all things UX but excels in Interaction Design, Wireframing, Prototyping, and Design Thinking."
-Amanda Long, User Experience Researcher at Charles Schwab
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