Web Designer and Programmer
Greater New York City Area
- Current
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- Art Director at Mammoth Advertising
- Past
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- Independent Web Developer at All Forces (Self-employed)
- Lead Web Developer at Mosaic
- Co-Founder / Web Developer at Mostasa (New Media Design)
- Web Developer at MGM
- Art Director at MGM
- Art Director at Dawn Patrol
- Education
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- Otis College of Art and Design
- Connections
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- Industry
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Melvin Rivera’s Summary
I'm a designer + coder. I design beautiful things for web and print. I code neatly by hand css, xhtml, javascript, php, actionscript and ajax. I am trained as a designer but have the heart of a geek. I have worked with small and big design companies and I co-founded Mostasa, a web design company with clients like MGM, Warner Bros., FOX, Universal, Adobe, MTV and Apple. My work has been featured in Design Interact, Adobe, and Apple websites, magazines and numerous books. I have also been honored with some design awards.
I have a keen interest in the open web and it's social aspects. Please inquire, I am always open to new opportunities.
Melvin Rivera’s Specialties:
Not in any particular order: AJAX, PHP, Cross-Platform W3C Web Standards Code, CSS, Javascript, XHTML, XML, Flash / Actionscript, Dreamweaver, GoLive, Photoshop, Illustrator, Quark, InDesign, QuickTime and general mac geekery.
Melvin Rivera’s Experience
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Art Director
Mammoth Advertising
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Marketing and Advertising industry)
October 2006 — Present (1 year 8 months)
Conceptualizing and designing websites for high profile projects in the film industry.
Working primarily in Flash, XHTML and PHP.
Clients include:
Lionsgate - Customized blog for Sicko. Websites for 310 To Yuma, Slow Burn, Fido, Bug. Banner campaigns for Pride, Slow Burn and Dr. Strange. Branding identity for Rize.
Warner Bros - Website concepts for Music and Lyrics
MGM - Websites for Home of the Brave, Rescue Dawn
Sony - Banner campaign for Volver
Weinstein Co. - Movie sites for Arthur and the Invisibles, Hannibal Rising. Website concepts for Weinstein Books.
IFC Films - Banners and blog for You Kill Me
Miramax - Academy website for The Queen. Banners for Eagle Vs. Shark
Bravo - Banner campaign for Top Design
Showtime - Banner campaign for The Tudors
Fox Searchlight - Banner campaign concepts for Waitress
Sundance Channel - Design concepts for The Green -
Independent Web Developer
All Forces (Self-employed)
(Self-Employed; Myself Only; Internet industry)
2003 — July 2006 (3 years)
Contract work with diverse industry clients to create original design and programming of websites, banners, logos and interactive flash.
Clients include:
Apple Computer - Site redesign concepts and prototypes
Warner Bros. - Developed an XML/PHP system for the WB Academy Awards promo site.
MGM - Up-keep of the jamesbond.com website
Urban Youth Workers Institute - Designed original art for website and developed a personalized publishing system (PHP/MySQL) for the client
Mosaic - Currently designing a web standards compliant website along with a content management system in PHP/MySQL and lots of Flash Based actionscripting. -
Lead Web Developer
Mosaic
(Non-Profit Organization Management industry)
June 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 2 months)
In charge of designing and developing the main website for Mosaic as well as it's smaller related websites. Some features in these projects include design, writing the css and javascript, developing the design into a usable wordpress theme, a custom ecommerce solution, an audio and a video podcast, and providing cms capabilities through wordpress.
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Co-Founder / Web Developer
Mostasa (New Media Design)
(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
2000 — 2003 (3 years)
Integral founding member of successful new media design company. Responsibilities included taking projects from concept to delivery, maintaining client relationships, project management, personnel management and marketing. Performed web design, web application development, banners, and identity.
Projects include:
MGM - Jamesbond.com, Die Another Day, The World Is Not Enough, Bulletproof Monk, Hannibal, Silence of the Lambs, Jeepers Creepers I & II, Deuces Wild, Ronin, Thomas Crown Affair, Stigmata, Mod Squad, Mgm.com redesign
Warner Bros. - Two Weeks Notice, The Majestic, Murder By Numbers, 2002 and 2003 Academy Sites
FOX - Like Mike, Moulin Rouge, Red Curtain Trilogy, Batman Special Edition, Sexy Beast, One Hour Photo, Dude Where's My Car
Universal - The Emperor's Club, Scorpion King, A Beautiful Mind
Adobe - Flash presentation, Adobe branded James Bond site, Demo site
MTV - The Bunker Project
FusionOne - Flash demo
DoTV - Design concepts
Swell.com - Site redesign -
Web Developer
MGM
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
1998 — 2000 (2 years)
One of two in-house developers at MGM. The VP of online marketing was so happy with us that we became the "in-house" web department. Before this, all work was done through vendors.
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Art Director
MGM
(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
1997 — 1997 (less than a year)
Art Director and Graphic Designer. Collaborated with a team to design the official marketing of the MGM films. This included poster, banner, bus-side, billboards and newspaper ads.
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Art Director
Dawn Patrol
(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Motion Pictures and Film industry)
1995 — 1997 (2 years)
Part of a small team of art directors in a theatrical and home video design house. Responsible for designing promotional material for movies. i.e. posters, video covers, video promos, logos and annual reports for movie companies.
Melvin Rivera’s Education
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Otis College of Art and Design
Graphic Design 1992 — 1995
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Melvin Rivera’s Interests:
new technology, blogging, podcasting social networking
Melvin Rivera’s Honors:
• Served as a consultant for the Adobe Creative Suite Software.
• Speaker at Internet World Conference session in 2002.
• Featured at Designinteract.com - "Hollywood and the Internet".
• Featured at Adobe.com in detailed interview about Mostasa and it's founders in 2000.
• Featured at Apple.com in article about Mostasa and it's founders in 2000.
• Featured in web design book "Designing Websites for Every Audience".
• Featured in book "Inside The Publishing Revolution: The Adobe Story".
• Featured in How Magazine article "The Web At The Movies".
• Key Art Awards Winner "Bronze" in the internet marketing category for JamesBond.com.
• Won Silver and Bronze awards at the Florida Magazine Association for a magazine layout.
• Interviewed at MGM for a spanish speaking TV show in Univision's Control in 1999.
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