{"id":15,"date":"2025-10-24T22:37:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T22:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.odu.edu\/summer2017-interdisciplinary-studies\/?page_id=15"},"modified":"2025-12-08T02:52:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T02:52:31","slug":"about-me","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/","title":{"rendered":"Salutations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Welcome to my Leadership ePortfolio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My name is David Mendoza, and I am a Leadership major with professional experience as a collegiate wrestling coach, formerly a decorated college athlete, personal trainer, business entrepreneur, and special education educator. This portfolio presents a concise view of how I design, lead, and evaluate learning and performance environments in both athletic and educational settings.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here you will find three core, market-ready skills\u2014research and critical thinking, instructional planning and training design, and communication and leadership\u2014each illustrated through curated artifacts from coursework, coaching, and professional practice. Together with my updated coaching r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and a capstone reflection, these materials demonstrate an interdisciplinary foundation that draws from business, management, education, psychology, philosophy, and sport science to support high-impact leadership roles in college athletics and higher education.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Thank you for visiting. Whether you are an employer, faculty member, or professional colleague, I invite you to explore these examples of my work to see how I integrate data-informed decision making, athlete and student development, and digital communication to advance team performance and student success.\u200b<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>To start, view these quick <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/success\/programs\/eportfolios\/tutorials#tab89=2\">WordPress<\/a> tutorials! For more help, make an appointment with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.odu.edu\/success\/programs\/eportfolios\">The Center for High Impact Practice&#8217;s ePortfolio Team<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to my Leadership ePortfolio My name is David Mendoza, and I am a Leadership major with professional experience as a collegiate wrestling coach, formerly a decorated college athlete, personal trainer, business entrepreneur, and special education educator. This portfolio presents a concise view of how I design, lead, and evaluate learning and performance environments in&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":31703,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31703"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.wp.odu.edu\/davidmendoza-ids493\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}