Hello and welcome to my website. My name is Patrick Mendoza and I am in my fourth year as a Mathematics major with a minor in Digital Arts at UCI.

        I hope to become a web designer by trade and have taken the first steps in that direction. These past few years I have learned as much as I possibly could about the subject. I learned writing raw HTML code first, and was amazed at the simplicity of it. Encouraged by the resuts I learned JavaScript the following summer. I have steadily increased my skills to include writing ActionScript, DHTML, and learning the use of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Macromedia Flash, Dreamweaver, and 3D Studio Max.

        Finally I have started a job working at UCI as a Lead Web Designer to maintain four of the web sites supported by the Office of Academic Affairs. I hope to increase my portfolio in the future by taking on freelance work when I can(Design side is desired, preferrably Flash).

        Besides web design one of the favorite hobbies has been reading. Some of my favorite authors are: Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Robert Jordon(if you haven't read The Wheel of Time series I definitely recommend it). I also have a minor interest in art. MC Escher is by far my favorite. Other artists I appreciate are: Vincent Van Gogh, John Waterhouse, and Caspar Friedrich. I have always had a love for Jazz. I played the trumpet in high school but mostly all I do now is go swing dancing every once in a while. Some day soon I hope to travel to New Orleans and see one of the places where it all originated.

        I was admitted to UCI as a Chemical Engineering major. After the first year I became convinced that I couldn't hack all the physics and programming, so I switched my major to Mathematics, which I had always seemed to have an affinity for. Lo and behold web page design has since become a passion of mine, and I am back into computer programming, this time I love it.