UCIL Academy

Curriculum Vitae of
 
Dr. Johnny M. Mendola, MBA, EDS, PhD

 

A well-rounded and highly successful business professional who offers real-world, hands-on experience in all facets of business planning, e-commerce and traditional marketing, sales, staff training and growth, branding, and contract negotiations. Excel in areas of relationship building, business finances, inventory management, and regulatory compliance. Highly experienced in global business and travel. Developed the insightful, powerful “3Rs” business philosophy of Rapport, Respect and Relationships.

 
ACADEMIC CREDENTIALS

Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA), Liberty University – Expected Completion Fall, 2024
Doctor of Theology - Theology (DMIN), Liberty University, 2021
EDS., Education Specialist, University of Western Georgia 2016 | 3.55 GPA
Lean Six Sigma, University of California Irvine, 2016
Ph.D., Theology, Atlantic Coast Theological Seminary 2015
Master of Theology, Liberty University, 2014
MBA-Master of Business Administration, Liberty University, 2012
Bachelor of Arts, Theology, CCBC, 2011 | 3.76 GPA
AS, Global Business, Saddleback College, 2011
AA, Humanities, Irvine Valley College, 2010
AA, Liberal Studies, Irvine Valley College, 2009

CERTIFICATES & LICENSES
 
Certified Google Analytics Platform, Google, 2014
Dr. Jeannette Vos – Certified “Learning Revolution” Course, 2015
Online Instructional Design & Technology Certificate, Saddleback College, 2011
Six Sigma Green Belt Cert. – 2016
Entrepreneurial Mindset Facilitator Certificate, ELI - 2020
Behavioral Research Certificate, CITI Program - 2020
 
 
CORE BUSINESS COMPETENCIES

Quantitative & Qualitative Research Analysis • LEAN Six Sigma (DMAIC) • Statistical Analysis • SWOT • Project Management • Strategic Planning • Market Analysis • E-Commerce Management • Branding • Sales Management • Staff Training & Development • Campaign Management • Risk Management • Contract Negotiation • Client Relations • Budgeting & Financials • Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) • P&L • Leadership & Mentoring

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
 
Irvine Valley College
Professor of Business Science and Technology Department,
2014 - Present

·       ENTR 200 - Pathways to Success: Promotes entrepreneurial thinking across disciplines and assists participants in developing a process for transforming ideas into sustainable success. The course includes individualized learning assessments designed to assist the student in exploring their frameworks of thought and entrepreneurial potential. This interactive course enables students to engage in the fundamental aspects of creatively developing frameworks
of passion and purpose as a means of personal empowerment and wealth. Students will examine how others overcame adversity and achieved success. ‘
·       ENTR 202 – Innovation and Opportunities: The value of developing an entrepreneurial mindset is becoming increasingly clear in a fast changing, global world. Entrepreneurship and innovation are necessary and applicable in all walks of life. The mindset is not a single characteristic but a group of thoughts, processes, and actions that combine to create a whole. In this course we will develop frameworks of thinking and acting that contribute toward success.
·       ENTR 211 - Business Models: The Design and Delivery of Value Helps student understand the profitability and the process of identifying business goals, developing strategic objectives, critical success factors, and key performance indicators for entrepreneurial endeavors. Successful entrepreneurs are able to describe how their organization creates, delivers, and captures value. This cross-disciplinary course helps students understand business model generation by examining customer segments, profitability, and the process of identifying business goals, developing strategic objectives, critical success factors, and key performance indicators for entrepreneurial endeavors. Students will learn how to filter business opportunities, project whether business opportunities can be scalable, identify and validate potential markets, and estimate profitability.
·       ENTR 212 – Market Validation and Research: The course explores a variety of resources, tools, and techniques for collecting and analyzing market research data. It engages students in the process of assessing target markets, implementing a market validation strategy, and interpreting primary and secondary research to create effective plans and forecasts. The course illustrates how targeting the market can reduce marketing costs and increase effectiveness. It also discusses common marketing mistakes and the limits of market research.

·       ENTR 117 – Social Media Marketing: Prepare curriculum and teach how to use Social Media Marketing by demonstrating the complexities and effective use of Google Analytics, Landing pages and Interventions.

·       BUS 1 / MGT 1 - Introduction to Business: Business Management:  Business concepts and practices; develops knowledge, thinking skills, and related business skills with regard to forms of ownership, management, finance, marketing, production, competition, technologies, global business, entrepreneurship, legal considerations, controls through which business organizations operate and other aspects of business.
 

Beckman High School, Irvine / Saddleback High School, Mission Viejo / Foothill High School, Tustin - (Irvine Valley College Enrollment Program – University Prep)
11-12 Grade, Advanced Placement Students – 2017 - Present
 

·       MGT 1 – University Prep/Introduction to Business Administration: A survey in business providing a multidisciplinary examination of how culture, society, economic systems, legal, international, political, financial institutions, and human behavior interact to affect a business organization's policy and practices within the U.S. and a global society. Demonstrates how these influences impact the primary areas of business including: organizational structure and design; leadership, human resource management, organized labor practices; marketing; organizational communication; technology; entrepreneurship; legal, accounting, financial practices; the stock and securities market; and therefore, affect the ability of a business to achieve its organizational goals. This is a 3 Unit Course that is transferable to UC, Cal State and other USA Universities.
 
·       ENTR 1 – University Prep / Entrepreneurship: This interactive Entrepreneurship course enables students to engage in the fundamental aspects of creatively developing frameworks of passion and purpose as a means of personal empowerment and wealth. Students will examine how others overcame adversity and achieved success. A cross-disciplinary course helps students understand business model generation by examining customer segments, profitability, identifying business goals, developing strategic objectives, critical success factors, and key performance indicators for entrepreneurial endeavors. Students will learn how to filter business opportunities, project whether business opportunities can be scalable, identify and validate potential markets, and estimate profitability. While engaging students in the process of assessing target markets, implementing a market validation strategy and interpreting primary and secondary research to create effective plans and forecasts. The course illustrates how targeting the market can reduce marketing costs and increase effectiveness. It also discusses common marketing mistakes and the limits of market research.

Westcliff University, Irvine California
Professor of Business & Education / Humanities
2020 – Present
 

         •   Bus 300 – Foundations of Business
The course is designed to address the foundations of business administration. This course is a study of an introduction to the business world. Focus is placed on business strategies in the   global market, entrepreneurship, human resource, and operations management. Topics such as management and leadership, entrepreneurship, ethics, social responsibility, diversity in the workforce, business financial and operations management are presented. Business theories such as Fayol’s and Weber principles, scientific management, motivation theories, four functions of management, and leadership styles are highlighted.
·       Bus 330 – Principles of Marketing
This course focuses on the principles of marketing. The course contributes to technical and professional preparation in Marketing, written and oral communication skills, understanding the global impact on business organizations, ethics in business, legal issues in organizations, role of cultural diversity in business and the dimensions of quality in organizations.
·       Bus 367 - Necessities of International Marketing & Culture
This course examines marketing principles and planning factors and techniques applied in a global environment. In addition, problems of marketing internationally and methods of alleviation will be studied.
·       Bus 385 - Principles in Advertising
This course focuses on the principles and background of advertising, advertising campaigns, and types of advertising. Special emphasis is given to Integrated marketing communication (IMC), the social, legal, planning, and creative aspects of advertising.
       •     BUS 420 / MKT 400 - Applied Marketing Analytics
This course establishes practical understanding of customer needs and improving marketing results by processing marketing information. Students perform business data analyses, consider strategies for retaining high return customers, and consider ways to improve online advertising.
        •    LDR 300 – Introduction to Leadership
This course inspires those in leadership positions in your organization to motivate, delegate, communicate and build the team for success.
       •    MGT 301 Introduction to Sales Management
This course blends the most recent sales management research with the real-life best practices of leading sales organizations. Students will learn the importance of employing different sales strategies for different customer groups, as well as integrating corporate, business, marketing, and sales strategies.
        •    MKT 300 Principles of Marketing
This course focuses on basic marketing theory. Students examine the range of marketing decisions an organization must make to sell its products and services, and how organizations deliver value in satisfying customer needs and wants through effective marketing.
       •    MKT 301 The Necessities of International Marketing & Culture
This course examines marketing principles and planning factors and techniques applied in a global environment. In addition, problems of marketing internationally and methods of alleviation will be studied.
       •    MKT 401 – Social Media Strategy
In this course, students will review the concept of social media and its management as an integral component of digital marketing. Social media, strategic framework of social media, choices of social options for target, message and idea, integrating social media across organizations. Additionally, students will learn structured ways to create integrated customer engagement and social media campaigns.
       •    MKT 403 - Digital Marketing Strategy
This course provides comprehensive, practical guidance on how organizations can optimize digital media and technology to meet marketing goals. This course connects marketing theory with practical business experience through step-by-step framework that enables the planning, integration and measurement of each digital platform and technique, assisting students in comprehending digital marketing in the real world, The students will learn best practice frameworks for developing a digital marketing strategy, and will also engage in practical aspects linked to effective digital marketing techniques, including search marketing, conversion optimization, and digital communications using social media.
      •     COM 115 – Introduction to Communication
This course provides an overview of the basic concepts of communication and the skills necessary to communicate in various contexts. Emphasis is placed on communication theories and techniques used in interpersonal groups, public, intercultural, and mass communication situations. Upon completion, students should be able to explain and illustrate the forms and purposes of human communication in a variety of contexts.
       •    HUM 180 – World Religion
This course examines the major teachings, beliefs, and devotional practices of the world's religions, including views of the absolute, ceremonial rituals, sacred experiences, and prevalent stories. Religions covered in this course include Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism, Daoism and Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

 University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Spring 2019
                     Global Leadership - Foreign Exchange Student Program
                      Beijing Normal University Program

·       MLM101 – Leadership & Management:  "Leadership and Management"
This course is designed to clearly instruct students on how to identify the different types of management styles and the processes used to become a successful leader.
Topics covered include:
 
• The Four Management Functions
• Planning, Process and Decision Making
• The difference between a Manager and a Leader
• Understanding SWOT
• Five Steps of the Control function of Management
·       MCOM101 – Communications:  "Communications"
This course is designed to clearly instruct students on the processes for learning communications skills, including identifying behaviors and learning styles.
Topics covered include:
 
• Explain Taylor's theory of Scientific Management
• Identify needs and wants to motivate and communicate
• Principles of goal-setting, expectancy, and equity theories
• Inspiring by motivation, Maslow & Herzberg Theories
• Identifying and adapting to ones learning styles (VAK)
• Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
·       MAC101 – American Culture:  "American Culture"
This course is designed to give students an overview of how America's Culture was established, including the morals and values that laid the foundation for the US Constitution and America's beliefs; moving into the Sixties and Seventies and analyzing the thought process that occurred during those years, in order to better-understand the evolution of American Culture as we see it today.
Topics covered include:
 
•  The foundation of the United States of America
•  Morals, Ethics and Beliefs
•  How the Sixties and Seventies changed the America Culture
• American Culture in today's society
·       ENTR101 – Entrepreneurship:  "Entrepreneurship"
This course is designed to clearly instruct students on the processes of formulating, planning, and implementing a new venture.
Topics covered include:
 
• 企业家精神和思维 • 创造性和经营理念 • 识别国内、国际
• 商业计划：启动和融资 • 发展战略和企业成长管理

University of Southern California (USC) Medical Center
2019 – 2020

                                                           Lean Six Sigma Practitioner and Trainer
 
Working as a Lean Six Sigma practitioner in the Health Care Industry; while focusing on the methodology of DMAIC (Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve and Control). Training on the Six Sigma discipline and dedicated to achieving optimum performance with the lowest or least amount of effort and energy (process and efficiency) in the service sector.
 

Concordia University Irvine
Subject Matter Expert / Guest Lecture 2016-2019

·       TEA110 - Teen Entrepreneur Academy:  Course is designed to educate, train and empower the next generation of honorable entrepreneurs, so that they become difference-makers who lead productive, fruitful and purposeful enterprises and experience meaningful lives of integrity, serving others and making the world a better place.

·       MBA611 – Business Data Analytics:  This course examine how data analysis technologies can be used to improve decision-making.  We study the fundamental principles and techniques of data mining, with real-world examples and cases to place data-mining techniques in context, to develop data-analytic thinking, and to illustrate that proper application is as much an art as it is a science. Employ and apply quantitative techniques and methods in the analysis of real-world business situations while integrate theory and practice for the purpose of strategic analysis.
 

Saddleback College
2017 / 2018

      
·       BUS 1 – Business Management:  Business concepts and practices; develops knowledge, thinking skills, and related business skills with regard to forms of ownership, management, finance, marketing, production, competition, technologies, global business, entrepreneurship, legal considerations, controls through which business organizations operate and other aspects of business.
 

ADVISARY BOARD
 
Advisory Board Member, 2020 - Present
University of California Irvine (UCI)

Dr. Johnny holds a position at the University of California Irvine (UCI) on their “Customer Experience Advisory Board.” The Board is comprised of a diverse, innovative, and extremely well-connected network of top-flight executives and professors. Board members make many contributions to UCI by preserving and enhancing the reputation and quality of the UCI curriculum through a strategic review of credit and noncredit courses offered to students and the business community. Board members offer the benefits of their experience to the UCI faculty and students through classroom visits, forums and conferences, and input on the UCI programs. The advisor boards roll is designed to promote the School’s goal of linking industry with academia to enhance the students learning outcomes.
 

ORGANIZATIONS & ASSOCIATIONS

·       The Accreditation Council for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP)
·       Social & Behavior Research Certificate- CITI Program
·       Entrepreneur Mindset Facilitator Certificate – ELI
·       Member of Harvard Business Publishing for Educators (HBP)

PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC HONORS
·       Invited speech & debate tournament judge, Irvine Valley College Speech and Debate Team
 ·      Showcased in Crain Automotive News, September 22nd (pg. 13), 2014
·      Worldwide Who’s Who Certificate of Achievement, 2013
·       2006 Tip Jar profile, Music Connection, July 2, 2006
·       Delta Medallion Million Miler Award, Aug. 2014
·      Saudi Arabia GEDS Speaker Award 2023

PUBLISHED BOOKS

·       Getting That Record Deal: The Backdoor approach
·      Secrets to Self-Learning Success – Dr. Jeanette J. Vos / J. Mendola
·       The Divine Outline  
 •  Understanding the Future
·       Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin  
•  The Inheritance
 

PERSONAL

Enjoys:
• Musical Bass Player • Public Speaking • Entry-level Mandarin Chinese
 • Fast Cars • Health & Fitness

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