Ramon Yvarra Email & Phone Number

Richmond, Ca, Us

Wilmington, Delaware, Us

Unisight’s unique and comprehensive grocery store management platform has many interconnected components. From mobile apps, POS, web, and cloud infrastructure, the technical and design demands of the platform are significant. With my experience across the product spectrum I am able to support the leadership by creating innovative and scalable solutions to problems, while leading the dev and design teams towards a cohesive product vision.

Led by former Telltale Games employees, Dramatic Labs is an independent collaboration of writers, developers, designers, artists, and producers who are passionate about the future of interactive storytelling. Thanks to my previous experience on Stage 9 (a fan-based Star Trek experience), I was a welcome addition to the team working on 'Star Trek: Resurgence.'

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Bugcrowd helps companies launch and maintain ongoing security research through managed bug bounties in collaboration with an international crowd of security researchers. As the senior product designer, I provide modern SaaS design guidance for Bugcrowd’s CrowdControl platform, which manages the relationship between organizations and researchers. I work closely with fellow designers, project managers, developers, and senior leadership to develop new ideas and refine feature proposals for this internationally renowned company.

After beginning at Karmic as their principal UX designer, I quickly became tasked with managing several of Karmic’s core efforts, involving design, development, and collaborating with Karmic’s entire leadership team. As director I drove requirements for all customer facing deliverables, and was responsible for the holistic user journey. During my time with Karmic I established a cohesive brand and design language that extended to all digital and print channels.

GNDN Studios was a game studio focused on space based simulations with a focus on licensed IP. Its first project was 'Stage 9' a virtual reconstruction of the U.S.S. Enterprise 1701-D. With a small team of dedicated designers we were able to release several versions of 'Stage 9'. As the lead designer, I created all of the interactive systems and layout tools for the project, including automated test and build environments.

Oakland, California, Us

Returned to Blue Shield of California to continue my UX efforts and assist the mobile design team in establishing new design guidelines for their updated mobile platform, and to create responsive web prototypes.

Cupertino, California, Us

Returned to Apple after 5 years, to assist the Facilities department with the design, architecture, and development of their internal tools. As an Engagement Manager I established a design language and architectural direction for new features, coordinated with external development vendors to scope and schedule work, managed bug backlogs, and conducted regular scrum meetings.

Oakland, California, Us

I was initially engaged to design new sections for Blue Shield's mobile site, but after seeing my initial work I was tasked with completely re-designing Blue Shield's mobile site, including a semantic refactoring of the front-end code and defining reusable components for the development team. In addition I led future focused design exploration sessions with the existing UX team and stakeholders.

New York, Ny, Us

At JPMorgan Chase I facilitated communication between the design and development teams by helping each group understand the goals of the other. I additionally performed a great deal of iOS UI R&D to provide guidance to the design teams in terms of future product development spanning all mobile platforms.

San Francisco, California, Us

Sugarcube provided professional iPhone application development services to companies and individuals eager to leverage the iPhone platform. As staff designer I drove all design, interaction, usability and creative direction of the application creation process. In collaboration with engineering teams and clients I created final form design mockups, interactive prototypes, and interaction behavior specifications.

Stanford, California, Us

The Web Services group designs and builds content for StanfordAlumni.org and StanfordMag.org. During my time at Stanford I led and mentored a team of designers and engineers in the application of up-to-date web practices, and improved the publishing workflow using up-to-date technologies.

Cupertino, California, Us

UI Engineering works closely with the design and engineering teams to bridge the gap by ensuring engineers understand the needs of designers and designers understand and design within the abilities of the target application or service. I led the UI Engineering team for iPhoto 6 in the creation of new book, calendar and card themes, and then went on to lead iTunes store content delivery for TV worldwide. I worked closely with content encoders, editorial, and design teams to ensure content quality and metadata accuracy, while building systems to shorten the content delivery workflow and track the content release schedule.

Cupertino, California, Us

The CSS group fills specialized OS customization orders placed primarily by educational institutions and small businesses to fit their specific site needs. My primary responsibility was to build and maintain a tracking system that would allow sales executives to place orders with the CSS team and specify the customizations they required in an easy and dynamic way. During this time I designed and built a three tiered system for placing orders, order fulfillment and quality assurance, while managing project timelines and release schedules for customer orders.

Cupertino, California, Us

The Desktop Services group is responsible for providing clear and concise support information to Apple worldwide by way of an extensive support site, training classes, and informal brown bag sessions.

Cupertino, California, Us

The Information services group provides a myriad of services to employees, the most critical being email and calendering services.