Courtney Tam kctam@uwaterloo.
ca
4B Systems Design Engineering courtneytam.com
Product Designer | Facebook (Ads Manager) Tools
Design
• Increased completion of core setup tasks by 2.3% within a 1 month • Figma (4 years)
period with a new user onboarding experience
• Produced end-to-end workflows to illustrate various onboarding paths • Sketch (3 years)
tailored different user roles and business segments • Illustrator (5+ years)
• Photoshop (3 years)
Product Designer | Cognite (Asset Data Insight) • Principle for Mac (2 years)
• Framer (1 year)
• Increased efficiency by improving a timeseries analysis tool for process Development
engineers to monitor and evaluate sensor data
• Enabled engineers to define thresholds and alerts for timeseries data • HTML & CSS (4 years)
• Defined the arhitecture of a notification management system • Javascript (3 years)
• Python (2 years)
Lead Product Designer | Friendly Studio (Design Agency) • SQL (2 year)
• Flo Recruit: Designed an event scheduling system for recruiters Fun Fact
• Paperstreet: Designed concepts for an investor portfolio dashboard I own an Etsy Shop, selling custom
• Manage client relations and designer communication on client projects marketing assets. I enjoy analyzing
product trends and tinkering with
Product Designer | Microsoft (Office365 Shared Experiences) the SEO of my listings to testing
new strategies.
• Designed a tagging in-app tool for Office365 applications to handle file
management and retrieval for a cyclical user experience Education
• Conducted cognitive walkthroughs of experimental designs with 15-20 Systems Design Engineering
participants from Forrester Research and L.L. Bean
• User Center Design Research
Product Designer | Shopify ( Pre-Tools)
• User Interface Design
• Human Factors in Design
• Refactored the product's onboarding flow by pivoting the data gathered;
validated through user research, and Mixpanel analytics • Probability and Statistics
• Designed modular components to allow for scalability with heavy • Data Structures and Algorithms
consideration of technical constraints and database integration
Responsive Web Development
Web Applications Designer | Blindside Networks
Specialized in collaborative,
multi-user platforms in frontend
• Designed the BigBlueButton video platform to ensure usability on a developement using the Meteor
variety of devices and over 50 users per session
Framework and MongoDB
• Composed user stories through customer visits to direct the
architecture and interaction models of an analytics dashboard