Resume of UX Engineer and Designer Brad Samuelson

With over 15 years of experience, I am a designer, front-end developer, and illustrator who places a significant focus on enhancing user experiences.

I've demonstrated a high level of skill as both a designer and developer, bridging the gap between design departments and engineering teams while focusing on user needs by architecting user workflows, developing high fidelity designs and prototypes, and creating standards and styling solutions used by cross-functional teams.

I've spearheaded the creation of design systems and component libraries at multiple organizations, both large and small, to drive consistency in the user experience and speed of development for SaaS platforms.

Experience

Principal UX Engineer / Designer

VideoAmp, Remote
April 2021 to September 2023
I worked on the User Experience team as both a designer and engineer, contributing to the development of an adtech platform.

Duties and accomplishments:

User Experience design of new features for the platform including: interpreting product requirements, reviewing and applying user feedback, creating workflows, wireframes, design assets and mockups.
Leading the creation of code-based prototypes to drive qualitative and quantitative user research and feedback for complex UX features.
Establishing design standards and documentation for our design system and component library.
Collaborating closely with engineers to ensure adherence to design standards, and directly contributing to the production code for feature implementation.
Helping to successfully navigate the merger of two platforms, working directly with production code, to allow users to seamlessly navigate between disparate systems without a jarring change to the experience.

Sr Front-End Engineer

ThreatConnect, Inc., Remote
September 2020 to April 2021
I worked in the UX Engineering department of a large IT Security platform, creating production code for new features and delivering on user needs.

Duties and accomplishments:

Helping align designers' vision with engineering execution.
Ensuring that standard components and features seamlessly matched wireframes and mockups.
Helping develop standards and best practices for the design system and component library.

Front-End Developer

Designlab, Remote
June 2020 to September 2020
I worked on the development team of a fast growing online education company to build out an e-learning platform. My duties included building and maintaining new features for the platform and marketing sites using HTML, CSS (SASS) and Javascript. Also worked collaboratively with product managers and designers to develop an internal design system.

Senior UI/UX Engineer

VideoAmp, Los Angeles, CA / Remote
August 2018 to March 2020
As a member of the Design Ops team, I helped to create a design system and component library (http://preamp.design) used in the development of web applications for the VideoAmp advertising platform.

Duties and accomplishments:

Developed reusable React components in TypeScript.
Architected an SVG icon system that allowed for various levels of customization: size, color, dual tone support (http://preamp.design/#/signal).
Made sure the components matched specifications from the design team.
Developed a coding standard and was the subject matter expert for styling in the VideoAmp platform.
Created and maintained the CSS framework used in the system (https://preamp.design/#/mixer/).

Senior Product Designer / UX Engineer

Oath, Baltimore, MD / Remote
March 2015 to August 2018
As a member of the user experience team, I worked to develop interactive prototypes and production code for various products in the advertising platform. I also worked as a designer turning product requirements into user experience workflows following a standard UX practice including research, testing, and working with engineers to deliver features to the platform.

Senior Front-End Engineer

StraighterLine, Baltimore, MD
July 2014 to March 2015
I worked within the technology team of a leading online higher education website. My duties included front-end development of the company website as well as the student web application.

Principal UI Designer

AOL, Baltimore, MD
February 2010 to July 2014
Worked within the user experience team leading UX and UI design for several high profile products in the advertising division of AOL. Duties included working closely with product and development teams on the creation and implementation of visual design mockups; front-end development using HTML, CSS, SASS and JavaScript; Usability testing with internal and external users.

Designer

Moat, New York, NY / Remote
September 2009 to February 2010
Worked remotely as a senior level designer to create web sites, landing pages, and banner ads as well as developing processes for a start-up internet advertising company.

Skills

Skilled in standards compliant and responsive web design and front end development utilizing HTML, CSS, SASS, JavaScript and Git for source code management. Experienced using JavaScript frameworks such as React, AngularJS, Vue.js, and Bootstrap. Collaboratively engaged with both large and small development teams using agile development and Scrum. Skilled in a suite of design tools including Figma, Sketch, Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, and After Effects alongside various integrated development environments (IDEs) and text editors.

Exceptionally skilled in overseeing the entire design process from conceptualization, in the form of thumbnails, user workflows, wireframes and storyboards, through the final production of user experience design, web/user interface design, page layout, video editing, illustration, and animation.

Education

Bradley Academy for the Visual Arts, York, PA
Associate Degree in Specialized Technology
Alpha Beta Kappa National Honor Society