Profile

Chris Mendoza
I am passionate about: Personal Finance, Photography and People
A little known fact about me is: that I am a tetris expert and like to repair/restore full-size arcade machines in my spare time.
Show my name on the attendees list for events I am attending: Yes
Location: Chicago, IL, USA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dozaster
Project Manager
Morningstar, Inc.
"Fail often so you can succeed sooner." - Tom Kelley"
Chris Mendoza is a Project Manager at Morningstar leading strategic enterprise-level brand and marketing implementations. Prior to being a Project Manager, he wore many other hats at Morningstar including Data Analyst, Business Analyst and ScrumMaster within their Global Equities and Investment Management groups, respectively. For the past few years, Chris has been deeply involved with the Chicago design community. He's had a helping hand in elevating our city and bringing the Chicago design community closer together through community building and visual communication.
Design quotient
Research
0pt
Idea
28pt
Evaluation
0pt
Collaboration
52pt
Total
80pt
Hi Adrien - thank you so much for your encouragement and kind words! You've added a bright spot to our day and have helped motivate us further!
The course/chapter curriculum is a foundational element to this platform and is certainly a key to our success as well as our differentiating factor. Compelling and engaging content will need to encourage users to continue their journey and influence others to join as well.
Please share any ideas or concepts you think we should consider to up the "fun factor"! An interesting thing you're alluding to is that simple financial concepts can be taught in an engaging way without actually calling out that you're learning "finance".
Hi Afrin Bhuiyan - thanks for your comments and feedback.
We're currently investigating previous suggestions like Khan Academy or Coursera, however, we feel it's important to have subject matter experts in house. We will have to leverage and refine existing course materials to fit our particular use case. More to come on this.
We live in a very user-focused environment. In terms of deciding how to invest in research and development, we're eager to go into user testing phases to understand what works, what doesn't and where to correct course.
Chris commented on mímir: Financial Literacy for Teens - Students Invest in Their Own Future [Update 02/27]