Oliver Reichenstein

Current

Partner at Information Architects Zurich
CEO and founder at Information Architects Tokyo

Past

Brand Manager at GPlusMedia, Tokyo
Senior Consultant at Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux
Owner at Sarx Research

Co-Founder, Internet Strategist at votez
Manager Concept and Corporate Communications at R.O.S.A.

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Education

Universität Basel
Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

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Oliver Reichenstein’s Summary

Started as a computer kid in the early 80ies. Taught MS Office and rhetoric while I studied Philosophy in Basel, Paris, New York. Working with the Internet since 1995. Helped building up the interactive team of Interbrand Zintzmeyer&Lux. In return I got a 5 year training as a brand consultant (1999-2003). Moved to Japan in September 2003 and started from scratch. Learned Japanese, got a job, married, started my own company. My goal is to build a team that sets new standards in interaction design.

Oliver Reichenstein’s Specialties:

branding and identity, information architecture, interface design, e-business strategy, research. I speak German, French, Italian, English (all fluent). My Japanese is so so la la.

Oliver Reichenstein’s Experience

Partner

Information Architects Zurich

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2008 — Present (1 year)

This is iA's new branch, started in June 2008 by Chris Lüscher, Cyrill Treptow and myself.
CEO and founder

Information Architects Tokyo

(Media Production industry)

October 2005 — Present (3 years 10 months)

Information Architects Tokyo provides all-round interaction design services, including internet strategy, information architecture, information design, graphical user interface design, interactive branding. We specialize in online newspapers and social networks.

Among others, we designed the websites for Tagesanzeiger, Das Magazin, Basler Zeitung, Berner Zeitung, Asoboo, Joblet and Doodle. We are currently working on a series of newspaper redesigns (online and offline), due 2009.
Brand Manager

GPlusMedia, Tokyo

(Online Media industry)

June 2004 — September 2005 (1 year 4 months)

Redesigned rebranded and relaunched GPlusMedia overall product portfolio. Defined product and marketing strategy. Contributed in redefining company structure, internal work flow, file sharing system and overall project management. Developed project management software. Worked for third party companies as information architect and information designer for a sales software GUI.
Senior Consultant

Interbrand Zintzmeyer & Lux

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)

January 2000 — May 2004 (4 years 5 months)

• Responsibilities: Essentially contributed building up Interbrand Zintzmeyer&Lux's interactive departement. Concept, research, brand, application and website development. Project management, face to the customer.
• T-Online Germany: Created web identity, information architecture and supervised site development, style guide, CI-net, wrote handbooks, brand and strategy papers.
• T-Online Software: Developed application series from the scratch, including: Browser, e-mail, banking, messenger and PDA.
• T-Mobile, Deutsche Telekom, FC Bayern, TOI Switzerland: Developed web identity and sub brands, consulted on design/information architecture.
• Swiss Federal Post Office, Postmuseum: Conducted project management, brand creation, style guides, brand manuals.
Owner

Sarx Research

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)

June 2000 — January 2004 (3 years 8 months)

Small Internet business consultancy: Branding, informaion design, e-business strategy
Co-Founder, Internet Strategist

votez

(Non-Profit; 1-10 employees; Information Services industry)

March 2001 — March 2003 (2 years 1 month)

Votez is an independent information service. Due to the high political activity demanded in a direct democracy like Switzerland, voting percentage is always kind of low. We send out a reminder and a brief description of what the respective voting is about one week before the voting deadline. We have over 7000 active subscribers. Out team consists od a number of journalists, lawyers, a designer, a programmer and a marketing strategist.

http://www.votez.ch/
Manager Concept and Corporate Communications

R.O.S.A.

(Internet industry)

February 1999 — December 1999 (11 months)

Responsibilities: Concept, sales, project management, advertisement, PR. Over 20 projects in 1 year. Supervised several ad-campaigns.

• Wohnbedarf
Concept, sales, project management and copy. 1999
• Migros
Customer training (CMS backend). Sales. Concept for subsite systematic. Project management. 1999
• Atraxis (today EDS)
Developed interface for a professional booking application for travel offices called Octopus. 1999-2000

Oliver Reichenstein’s Education

Universität Basel

Lizentiat , Philosophy, German, Modern History , 1992 — 1998
Université Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris I)

Licencese , Philosophy, Film Theory , 1993 — 1994