Bart Renner
Sr. UX Design Manager at Syniverse
Charlottesville, Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBart Renner is a senior UX design leader with nearly a decade of experience shaping human-centered, data-informed product and design systems across agencies and in-house teams. He has led design strategy and execution for large-scale systems like Rackspace’s Helix and directed design teams at Funsize and Syniverse, while running a long-standing independent consultancy focused on experience design, strategy, and facilitation. An empathetic manager and mentor, Bart invests in developing designers through coaching, portfolio reviews, and ADPList mentoring. His background in literature and narrative theory (M.A.R., Yale Divinity School) informs a distinctive focus on embodied cognition and experience storytelling that elevates product interactions. Based in Austin, he balances pragmatic product outcomes with a humanistic approach—bringing in curiosities from music, education, and even paleontology to spark creative solutions.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
M.A.R. Religion and Literature, M.A.R. Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity SchoolBachelor of Arts (B.A.) Poetry Writing Religious Studies, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Poetry Writing Religious Studies at University of Virginia
Github Skills (3)
rackspace9
testing3
web-components3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
rackerlabs/hxSketchLibrary
Jan 2018 - Oct 2018
Repo for testing Kactus and sketch library integration
Contributions:1 PR, 4 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
testing
rackerlabs/design-system
Dec 2016 - May 2019
Design documentation for Helix, the Rackspace Design System
Contributions:15 commits, 12 PRs, 11 pushes in 2 years 5 months
rackspace
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