TIM

SALAU
UX/UI Designer
Education
Texas Tech University
B.A., Psychology
Minor: Technical Comm.
GPA: 3.88

About

Skills

My main areas of professional interest are IT, product management,

and UX design. I have more than 3 years of experience working in the
IT industry and possess the principle knowledge needed to craft
quality products that are unique and bring delight to a user group. I
employ my skills to improve the product experience for a companies
user base while ensuring that the key aspirations of the business are
met and a green space of feedback/product improvement are
achieved between the business, product, and consumer.

EXPERIENCE
Pacific Northwest National Lab
UX -IT Business Intern

tim.salau08@gmail.com

281.745.8856

Applied UX research and user-centered design principles to improve

the experience of an internal website expected to be accessed by
more than 4,000 employees.

Texas, USA

Created the following deliverables: wireframes, hi-fidelity concepts

of dashboards/web pages, presentation material, and persona
studies.
Administered stakeholder interviews and surveys with executive
leadership, application developers, and end users in order to define
project objectives and mark sprints.
Facilitated UX SCRUM sessions focused on improving the user
experience of an enterprise business tool utilized by senior
management when making risk-based investment decisions.
Texas Tech University
UX Research Assistant

Lubbock, TX
10/13 to Present

Ushered more than a 100 usability studies and

conducted preliminary project research such as literature reviews
related to experiment design.
Created general instructions and task procedure documents for
usability studies.
Texas Tech IT Division
Knowledge Mgmt. Analyst | Supervisor

Lubbock, TX
08/12 to Present

Responsible for communicating with 35,000 expected customers a

year seeking university-related information, assistance with
technical issues, or updates pertaining to campus-wide issues.
Frequently collaborated with supervisors, technicians, staff
members, and other departments within the university regarding
issues that required deeper analysis and resources.
PORTFOLIO
AVAILABLE UPON
REQUEST

Wireframing
HCI
Project Management
Personas
UI Design

Richland, WA
05/15 to Present

Managed a project that focused on integrating objective data

sources for over 250 business applications into an enterprise
business tool that empowered senior leadership during investment
process.

Tim Salau

User Research

Designed intuitive solutions for a knowledge base that all employees

are required to routinely reference when resolving issues with
customers.
Directed more than 30 entry level analysts/technicians and primed
them on how to improve their support workflow so our customer
satisfaction metric was kept at 94% or above.

Card Sorting
Content Strategy
Usability Testing
Product Management
Tools
Axure

Sketch

Balsamiq Marvel
InVision

Photoshop

Orgs
UXPA

HFES

IDF

IxDA

Interests
Art

Fashion

Reading

Culture

Traveling Food
Design

Music