Oliver Reichenstein

Current

• Owner 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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Connections

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Industry

Marketing and Advertising

Websites

• My Company
• Own projects: Asoboo

Oliver Reichenstein’s Summary

Started as a computer kid in the early 80ies. Taught MS Office and rhethorics 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 deliver the best information design in Japan.

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 still conversational.

Oliver Reichenstein’s Experience

• Owner

  Information Architects Tokyo

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Media Production industry)

  October 2005 — Present (3 years)

  Information Architects Tokyo provides all-round interactive communication services, including internet strategy, information architecture, information design, graphical user interface design, interactive branding.

• Brand Manager

  GPlusMedia, Tokyo

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; 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 (testing phase). 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 (No1. portal in Germany): Created web identity, information architecture and supervised site development, style guide, CI-net, wrote handbooks, brand and strategy papers.
  • T-Online Software (No1. ISP software in Germany): 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, Unaxis, 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.

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; 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 (pitch)
  Concept, sales, project management and copy.
  1999
  • Migros (pitch)
  Customer training (CMS backend). Sales. Concept for subsite systematic. Project management.
  1999
  • Atraxis (today EDS) (pitch)
  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

Additional Information

Oliver Reichenstein’s Websites:

• My Company
• Own projects: Asoboo

Oliver Reichenstein’s Groups:

•    Expats in Japan
•    Japan Networking Group
•    Bilingual Workforce in Japan
•    Asoboo - Japan

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