hello, my name is
deric mendez
I enjoy planning and building user experiences for web applications of all kinds with collaborative project teams. Below, you can get a glimpse of my career and skillsets since 2000.
D3
Dec 2018
D3 with React is a great way to componentize visualizations using composable JSX components without D3's DOM utilities, leveraging and focusing on the core dataviz functions.
Typescript
Dec 2018
Introduced to TS through a React/Redux project. Definitely a humbling experience adding type assurance to an existing Javascript codebase, but the pay-off was worth it!
React
Dec 2017
Entroduced to React through co-workers research and willingness to experiement with it's universal capabilities across web and native platforms. Since then, have latched onto React due to it's community support and accessible learning curve.
Angular
Dec 2016
Prior to adopting React, Angular was our primary tool to build out single page apps leveraging their unique templating system (at the time).
Wordpress
Dec 2015
Majority of clients' products needed support for marketing/CMS which I was able to take on building out custom themes and plugins.
Crema
Saught out Crema because I loved their values around building
good products for users and customers. This included
working collaboratively in an agile environment allowing all roles to
contribute
Spent half my tenure here
helping start-ups build out their product ideas and the
other half helping enterprise organizations build out their
internal tools.
jQuery
Jul 2010
Used jQuery and wrote custom plugins to help build out splash page and content page interactions.
CSS
Jul 2008
Spent a lot of time working with stylesheets and systemizing CSS on content sites with tools like SASS/LESS and applying through semantic HTML using atomic design principals.
Macromedia Flash
Jul 2008
JavaScript interactions were not as accessible as they are today, so setting up Flash components to add location map interactions and game-like interfaces were imperative to add unique interactions on client projects.
.NET
Jul 2008
About 70% of projects with DEG were .NET related. I was hired initially to build out UI's for all of our custom .NET projects.
DEG
My first job dedicated to building content sites with CSS/HTML within a custom .NET framework.
DEG eventually started working with clients to help build projects in Wordpress, Magento and
Sitecore/Sharepoint environments which expoded me to several other languages such as PHP/.NET/Node.
Perl
Dec 2005
Spent time learning how to interface with MySQL and building out a custom CMS. Also worked with Interchange ecommerce platform to help build out an electronics and stereo equipment store.
JavaScript
Dec 2004
I avoided JavasScript for a long time, but became inevitable the demand for interactions so started to embrace this tool more along with cross-browser frustrations.
MySQL
Dec 2004
Learned advanced indexing and querying capabilities to get related products on ecommerece stores.
Macromedia Flash
Dec 2003
Built out animated banners and theme'd games to use for website promotions
CSS
Dec 2003
I loved CSS Zen Garden at the time, so anything I could control with stylesheets while maintaining DOM integrity, was my obsession.
MultiService
Perfect entry level job where I got to help maintain the companies website but
had the opportunity to work on internal projects, tools and e-commerce stories.
Turned out this was the perfect incubator to kick-off a ton of exploration and
experience with a lot of new tools and technology at the time. Even got to spend some time
maintaining server racks for online games. 😅
CSS
Dec 2001
Start using CSS to decorate landing pages and TreeLoot website.
HTML
Dec 2001
Not only used HTML for general content updates, but started to learn to use HTML for building targeted advertising emails.
Macromedia Flash
Dec 2001
Continued with animation and tweens then learned to apply ActionScripting to automate animations and add in logic for more interactive banners and games
Virtumundo
My first full time job outside of school! Got hired on as a web designer where I got to spend some time engaging with Photoshop more. Eventually got my hands on some flash experience with marketing banners and forms.
Perl
May 2001
Learned to work with Perl for content updates and form submissions
HTML
Dec 2000
Learned to write semantic HTML in order to provide school's pages with searchable content.
CSS
Dec 2000
Start learning CSS in school work and applying minor css styling to school content pages
Macromedia Flash
Dec 2000
Used flash to build out animations and tweens for custom website ad banners
Photoshop
Dec 2000
Built out ad banners for school site and produced page mockups for particular departments
KCKCC Internship
Landed an internship that started part time through the school year
then full time during summers.
Majority of my time was fixing bugs, updating content and the occational creative freedom
to add new pages and banners.
Built with 🔨
Gatsby, Chakra and D3 (timeline)