eBay, Inc.
San Jose
Lead Creative Designer
October 2006 to November 2008
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.
Move, Inc.Westlake Village
Visual Web Designer
July 2006 to November 2006
Visual design and product development for Move.com, Homestore.com, Realtor.com and Welcome Wagon.
Persistence of Vision
Santa Monica
Previsualization Artist
January 2006 to May 2006
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.
LPI Media, Inc.
Los Angeles
Associate Web Producer
July 2004 to January 2006
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.
Housing4Students
San Mateo
Creative Director
June 2002 to October 2003
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.
Williams Sonoma, Inc.
San Francisco
Graphic Designer
October 2001 to March 2002
Designed signage systems and graphical memos for distribution to over 180 retail outlets in the United States and Canada.
Freelance Graphic and Interface Design
San Francisco/Los Angeles
Visual Designer
May 2001 to Present
Recent client list: Accelerated Partner, Powerlight Corporation, Virtual Links, Eileen Hansen For District 8, 2003 Yes On L Campaign, Tough Gloves, Wesley Royce Brittain Photography, Dennis Kucinich for President 2004
Unexplored, Inc.
San Francisco
Lead Visual Designer
June 2000 to May 2001
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.
vivid studios / Modem Media
San Francisco
Visual Designer
July 1999 to June 2000
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.
Bank of America Interactive
San Francisco
Production Coordinator
March 1999 to July 1999
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.
Carnot Northwest/
Sonnichsen Engineering
Seattle
Graphic Artist/3D Animator
1992 - 1999
Technical illustrator at combustion engineering firms. Duties included all aspects of the design of both printed and Powerpoint presentations. Initiated the use of Alias/Wavefront Poweranimator to create short animations for use in client presentations.
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS
2001 AdMark ADDY Award
edgewoodcreek.com
2001 One Show Interactive
Bronze - Best B2B Business Site
edgewoodcreek.com
Adobe.com Feature
edgewoodcreek.com
Yahoo! Daily Pick Feature
safari.net
EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS
Bachelor of Fine Arts
Seattle Pacific University 1996
Level 2 Certification
Alias/Wavefront Poweranimator
Mesmer Amimation Labs 1998
KEVIN SONNICHSEN
San Francisco, CA 94114
323.251.5811
kevin@kevinsonnichsen.com
kevinsonnichsen.com
imdb.com/name/nm2245131/
