I'M Sam,
SAM ZARGHAM.
01 Skills
UX AND UI
UX
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Interview
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User Journey
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Focus Group
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Qualitative Analysis (NVIVO)
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Quantitative Analysis (EXCEL)
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Usability and Lab Test
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System Log Analysis
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User Persona
UI Design
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Low Fiedelity
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High Fidelity
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Balsamique
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Just in mind
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.Net GUI ( Application Based and Web Based)
COMPUTER VISION AND AI
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Image Processing
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SIFT
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SURF
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Motion Detection
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Supervised Learning
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Unsupervised Learning
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Q-learning as Reinforcement learning
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Pac-man Auto Play
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Image Classification and Clustering
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Metadata Analysis
WEB AND DEVELOPMENT
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ASP.net
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HTML
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CSS
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Java Script
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Boot Strap
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Adobe Dreamweaver
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Matlab
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C#
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Database: SQL server and MySQL
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Swift and Xcode for IOS
SYSTEM ARCHITECT
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SDLC
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DB Desgin
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Agile
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Management the Process of Design, Implementation and Evaluation
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Management of the system core and design
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Academic Research
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Teaching
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Presented at International Conferences
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Tennis Player and Coach
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02 PORTFOLIO and Publications
Screen shots available here: SEE MORE >
They have been explained in detail in below as publications
03 EDUCATION & Experience
2016-Current
Freelancer
UX and Development
During this period I was designing websites, helped two startups using balsamique software to have a high fidelity user friendly prototype for their business which were focusing on sales and security and deployed an ios application where the name is Polyflick.
Management Course:
At Virginia International University I took the course of management focusing on project management, accounting, management behavioural and micro economics
Tennis Coach:
Private tennis teaching
2015-2016
University of Surrey, Guildford, England, United Kingdom.
Visiting Researcher, UX
During this period I was a visiting researcher at University of Surrey fostering my research for commercialization.
2010-2015
University of Surrey, Guildford, England, United Kingdom
PhD in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) and Computer Vision in Department of Electronics
My research was a multidisciplinary program between sociology (DWRC) and electronics departments where firstly using HCI and UX techniques to gather information about the current and future possibilities to create a novel photo sharing and visualization tools. The outcome of the initial research using the literature and qualitative analysis was the idea of 4streams to show multiple photo streams concurrently and synchronous in lock-step manner. In order to create the 4streams, computer vision, AI, database as back-end and the previous designs from UX section were used as a front-end. Some screenshots are available at portfolio section.
Work:
Teacher assistant: HCI, Interaction Design, Leadership
2008-2009
University of Surrey, Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Master of Science in Information Systems
At this Masters degree I covered courses focusing on web publishing, multimedia security, business strategy in information systems and AI. My dissertation was a learning algorithm to let Pac-Man plays automatically and the results showed better performance than average human ability to play.
2003-2008
KISH University:
Computer Software Engineering
Mehrad Hospital:
Front-End Development using C# and Database using SQL Server
