# Sam Saydak > Sr. Product Designer Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/samsaydak Storyteller. Maker of things. Advocate of the user. ## Work Experience ### Sr. Product Designer @ The College Board Jan 2023 – Present ### Sr. UX Designer @ nextSource Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 Contractor at The College Board ### Product Designer @ Prudential Financial Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 ### UX Freelance Designer @ Freelance UX Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 I help smaller companies distinguish themselves in their industry. Whether it is creating a brand new website or brochures, I give them the tools to better market their services or products. ### Freelance Production Designer & Digital Artist @ HS Ad North America Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 My initial short term contract with HS Ad was to help them prepare for CES 2019. This involved photoshopping product images into perspectives, inserting infills into products, and more. My second short term contract with HS Ad involved creating banners, photoshopping images, and more for their home appliances. ### Freelance UX Designer @ Endava Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mendam NJ I was hired by Endava in a contact position. They were working with the USGA in creating multiple products. My position was involving the iOS Native App that helped golfers track their handicap. I created wireframes in Sketch that were later uploaded to Zeplin for developers to reference. ### UX Consultant @ DiligenceVault Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area I was one of three UX consultants working on the project. We were working with Diligence Vault to create a mobile productivity app. Diligence Vault currently facilitates the due diligence process between investors and managers. We conducted user interviews, researching, designing, creating wireframes, and a prototype. ### Assistant Designer & Lead Specialty Gardener @ R&S Landscaping Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Greater New York City Area As Assistant Designer and Lead Specialty Gardner, I was involved in the design, sales, and production aspects of the business. After meeting with a client, I would create designs and proposals based on the interview. The second meeting with the client, I would pitch my proposal with the aid of drawings. From there I would either revise the design or move forward with sourcing the materials to move forward with production. On the projects I sold I would go out into the field with my team as the project manager. Once the project was completely finished, I would invoice the project and schedule after care for myself if it was required. ### Design Intern @ R&S Landscaping Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area As a design intern, I worked under a landscape designer and manager. I conducted site visits, client meetings, built base maps, created designs, rendered plans, wrote proposals, presented projects, and maintained landscapes. ### Graphic Designer @ Virtual Frontier Realty Imaging LLC Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Greater New York City Area Virtual Frontier Realty Imaging was a company that focused on helping realtors market the homes they were listing. As the graphic designer, I created the brochures, enhanced photos, flyers, and occasionally 3D models. ### Intern @ Passaic River Coalition Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 As an intern, I was part of small multidiscipline group. I was the landscape designer of the group. We developed an update to the Passaic River Restoration Project Master Plan. The new plan focused in on public access for the lower half of the Passaic River. We conducted demographic analysis, land use analysis, population analysis, flood risk analysis, and accessibility analysis. From this research we conducted site visits to narrow down locations to focus on. We designed the selected areas with a goal to have people near the water and to be able to bike the length of the river. ## Education ### UX Design Certificate in User Experience Design Immersive General Assembly ### Bootcamp Prep in JavaScript Fullstack Academy ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Landscape Architecture Rutgers ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sam-saydak - Website: https://samsaydak.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/samsaydak JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/samsaydak/resume.json Last updated: 2026-02-23