Ken Meleta
Freelance Web Designer
Related Work Experience
-Freelance Web Designer (2005-Present)
As a freelancer, I design and create entire websites incorporating stunning graphics and a sensibly designed layout and navagational system. I have knowledge in Flash and HTML based development. I also obey all the strictest World Wide Web Consortium Standards. View my "Subject Knowledge" section for more info.
-Graphic Designer (2006-2007)
I spent my senior year of high school working as the graphic designer at Kovod Signs & Engraving in Lakewood, NJ. While there, I designed logos, signs and banners from scratch for various local companies as well as numerous art work reproductions. I also ran the prints and vinyl cut-outs.
Educational Experience
-Web & Interactive Media Design/ Art Insititute of Philadelphia (2007-Present)
I'm currently in the Bachelor's Degree program in Web & IMD at The Art Institute of Philadelphia gaining professional training from professors experienced in the web design trade. I'm also part of the "Function Web Design Club" where, as a small group, we learn more advanced techniques than the vast majority of our peers.
-Ocean County Vocational Technical School (2005-2007)
During my last two years in high school, I attended OCVTS in Brick, NJ to study graphic design. With in those two years I left with knowledge in video capturing and editing, graphic design, printing and press operation and web design.
Skills & Subject Knowledge
Skills and Competencies
My focus in the web industry is delivering high-end interactive websites and applications through the Flash IDE. I am familiar with trigonometry and other maths within Flash applications to create advanced, innovative methods of presenting content. I am constantly elevating my Flash expertise by learning to utilize the latest technologies.
Flash isn't where my abilities end however. Since I first migrated from table-based designs to standards compliant websites, I evolved into an extremely proficient XHTML and CSS programmer capable of turning nearly any design into a compliant, accessible website. Along the way I’ve added the ability to implement Javascript and database interaction via PHP and MySQL.
Awards & Honors
-Skills USA Web Design County Championship Winner (2007)
During my last year of high school, my vocational school assisted me in entering the Skills USA Web Design Competition, which started at county level. The school supplied me with the necessary tools and paid my way through the competition, all the way to Kanas City for the Nationals.
-Skills USA Web Design State Championship Winner (2007)
After winning the Ocean County web design competition, I advanced into the state-wide championships where I again won first place for the design of a fictional company's website. The topic was given to us at the start of the competition and we had less than 5 hours to complete the site.
-Art Institute Best of Quarter Award for Print/Layout (2008)
This Best of Quarter was my final project for my "Advanced Image Manipulation" class. My project was a digital matte painting done in Photoshop, displayed with my other work from the class in an Actionscript 3.0 Flash portfolio website.
-Art Institute Best of Quarter Award for Programming (2008)
This Best of Quarter was awarded to my project for the PHP class, "Advanced Web Scripting." I took this class in my 4th quarter at the school, regardless of it being a suggested 8th quarter class. I redesigned my website to the way you see it now as the project.
-Art Institute Best of Quarter Award for Programming (2008)
This Best of Quarter was awarded to my actionscript 3.0 project for the "Interactive Motion Scripting" class. I created a flash based game that allows the player to enter their score to a list of the top scores via PHP and the Zend AMF framework.
-Art Institute Best of Quarter Award for Programming (2009)
This Best of Quarter was for a CSS class. I made a unique horizontal scrolling photo portfolio website. I used a lot of javascript to make the act as though it was created in flash.
-Art Institute Best of Quarter Award for Programming (2009)
This Best of Quarter was for a DHTML javascript class. This project can be found here. This site has a ton of advanced, high-end interactive features like image magnifying and an AJAX based dealership locator.