Kevin Sonnichsen

Current

• Senior UI Designer at Walmart.com

Past

• Lead Creative Designer at eBay
• Contract Visual Web Designer at Move
• Contract Previsualization Artist at Persistence of Vision

• Online Producer (interaction design, visual design, information design, HTML programming) at LPI Media, Inc. / Planet Out Inc.
• Interface Designer (interaction design, visual design, information design, HTML programming) at Freelance (Self-employed)
• Product Manager (interaction design, visual design, information design, usability tester) at Housing4Students/RLTVentures
• Contract Graphic Designer at Williams Sonoma, Inc
• Lead Visual Designer at Unexplored, Inc. - defunct
• Visual Designer at vivid studios / Modem Media
• Contract Production Coordinator / Information Designer at Bank of America Interactive

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Education

• Seattle Pacific University

Recommended

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Industry

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Websites

• My Portfolio

Kevin Sonnichsen’s Experience

• Senior UI Designer

  Walmart.com

  (Public Company; WMT; Retail industry)

  January 2009 — Present (7 months)

• Lead Creative Designer

  eBay

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ebay; Internet industry)

  October 2006 — November 2008 (2 years 2 months)

  Primary visual designer for the 2006/2007 redesign of eBay's finding/buyer experience. Collaborated with a team of 6 UI designers in San Jose as well as engineers in San Jose, China and India in the design and development of a flow incorporating dozens of pages with hundreds of testing permutations. Included in these designs is the newly implemented "snapshot view" which has been lauded in publications such as Businessweek and The Wall Street Journal. This redesign also introduced the new visual style upon which all of the ongoing design work at eBay is currently based.

• Contract Visual Web Designer

  Move

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MOVE; Online Media industry)

  July 2006 — October 2006 (4 months)

  Visual design and product development for Move.com (including Realtor.com and Welcome Wagon), a top-50 internet destination.

• Contract Previsualization Artist

  Persistence of Vision

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)

  January 2006 — May 2006 (5 months)

  Created over 120 conceptual previsualization animatics for Journey to the Center of the Earth and 30 technical previsualization animatics for Eragon using Alias|Wavefront Maya.

• Online Producer (interaction design, visual design, information design, HTML programming)

  LPI Media, Inc. / Planet Out Inc.

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; LGBT; Online Media industry)

  July 2004 — January 2006 (1 year 7 months)

  Responsible for daily content maintenance of 5 high traffic websites, 3 weekly HTML email broadcasts and the redesigns of advocate.com and outtraveler.com. Created functional HTML pages, page specs and flowcharts for a customized Ektron content management system.

• Interface Designer (interaction design, visual design, information design, HTML programming)

  Freelance (Self-employed)

  (Self-Employed; Myself Only; Online Media industry)

  March 1999 — June 2004 (5 years 4 months)

  Partial client list: Accelerated Partner, Powerlight Corporation, Virtual Links, Eileen Hansen For District 8, 2003 Yes On L Campaign, Wesley Royce Brittain Photography, Dennis Kucinich for President 2004, CHR Showroom, Los Angeles Business Journal

• Product Manager (interaction design, visual design, information design, usability tester)

  Housing4Students/RLTVentures

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

  June 2002 — October 2003 (1 year 5 months)

  Executed the redesign of housing4students.com (a site providing off-campus housing solutions) including wireframes, UI documentation, page specs and flowcharts for a successful engineering integration. Developed and designed the interface for a suite of thin client software applications for Central Michigan University, Physical Maintenance Department, including an on-site user discovery phase, paper prototypes and user testing.

• Contract Graphic Designer

  Williams Sonoma, Inc

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; WSM; Consumer Goods industry)

  October 2001 — March 2002 (6 months)

  Designed signage systems and graphical memos for distribution to over 180 retail outlets in the United States and Canada.

• Lead Visual Designer

  Unexplored, Inc. - defunct

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Online Media industry)

  June 2000 — May 2001 (1 year)

  Responsible for the development and execution of company creative vision, both online and offline. Generated and provided the visual design, identity and navigation for a network of adventure travel websites, user interfaces for booking software, printed marketing, collateral and trade show exhibit design.

• Visual Designer

  vivid studios / Modem Media

  (Public Company; 201-500 employees; MMPT; Online Media industry)

  July 1999 — June 2000 (1 year)

  Created the visual design for the AdMark ADDY and One Show Interactive award-winning Edgewood Creek website. Also functioned as a visual designer providing for numerous clients including NextMonet, Toyota/Lexus and Day Without Art.

• Contract Production Coordinator / Information Designer

  Bank of America Interactive

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; BAC; Online Media industry)

  March 1999 — July 1999 (5 months)

  Coordinated the design, production and implementation of the Phase 1 relaunch of the Bank of America website following their merger with Nations Bank. Generated flow charts and site maps for the Nevada and Texas relaunch of bofa.com.

Kevin Sonnichsen’s Education

• Seattle Pacific University

  1992 — 1996

Additional Information

Kevin Sonnichsen’s Websites:

• My Portfolio

Kevin Sonnichsen’s Honors:

2001 AdMark ADDY Award
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2001 One Show Interactive
Bronze - Best B2B Business Site
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