My mother often asked me the W5H, so let's start with the who?
My name is Leonardo, or Leo for short. I have a passion for education, design, technology and surfing the world wide web.
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what, where, when, why
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WhereTo is a business travel startup from San Francisco that evolved into an agile development and design studio within the Flight Centre family. We build travel solutions used by some of the largest companies on the planet. At WhereTo I am leading the product design initiatives from the WhereTo Labs team. Our aim is to elevate travel experiences by constantly innovating and improving our mission to revolutionize B2B travel planning and anciliary services.
LaunchGood is a global crowd funding and donation platform built by the Ummah and allies for the world. My role as Senior Product designer for the scheduled giving team created mindful ways to automate donating in social, engaging and challenging ways.
sherpaĀ° is a bold, Toronto born startup that helps travellers move freely. My journey started as the second design hire and first product designer on the newly founded Travel Rangers team. I ended my time at sherpaĀ° in a Design Technologist role on the DesignOps team piloting the Summit Design system in collaboration with Valor Software.
At York University's Faculty for Continuing Studies I provided instruction for the Full-stack Web Development Certificate Program both locally in Toronto and remotely. I led instruction for the Web UI Concepts and Frameworks immersive course, specializing in fundamentals of UI/UX design, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and introduction to Angular and ReactJS.
Medavie Blue Cross leverages in-house expertise and technology to create digital products tailor-made for users Canada wide. As a User Experience Designer I conducted workshops with key stakeholders to gather and understand goals, needs and requirements while advocating for a seamless experience. I routinely facilitated stakeholder alignments, workshops and produced wireframes of varying fidelity for a multitude of product requirements and needs.
Skills Union, formerly RED Academy, is a leading-edge career college rooted in technology. I led the curriculum design, training, development and execution across all user experience and interaction design programs at the Toronto campus. As a team we mentored, coached and oversaw the development and success of over 90+ real-world client projects with hundreds of students both in person and remotely. As I moved into leadership I was able to build new courses and products and piloted the first Front-End Design and Development Certificate Program.
Blackjet is a fearless creative agency based in Toronto that leverages data and insights to connect deeply with people. At blackjet I developed award-winning digital experiences for Fortune 500 companies in a fast-paced agency environment. Worked closely with visual designers, interaction specialists and full-stack developers to create responsive, scalable, and accessible interactive media that included microsites, landing pages, e-commerce platforms, display advertisements, HTML e-mail templates and more.
Design Rooster is a design, marketing and advertising agency that creates original brands and digital idenenties. At Design Rooster we crafted digital identities and brands by building and maintaining stable and scalable digital solutions such as websites, promotional material, branding and more that met small business needs.
Canadian Custom Apparel is Canada's leading custom apparel supplier for screen-printing, embroidery, vinyl transfer and DTG printing. At Canadian Custom Apparel I designed apparel, promotional material, branding and more that met various business needs. I managed plotting equipment and ensured customer needs were met both in store and online.
Blitz Print House is a premium printshop that specializes in art, photograph, stationary and promotional material. At Blitz, I ensured customer needs met print requirements. I assisted clients and customers with ad-hoc graphic/print design needs. During my time at Blitz I also managed the studio space including open and closing the retail location and attending to various business needs and requirements.
Freelance and contract work for various projects including logo design, web development, branding, apparel and graphic design, consulting, teaching, speaking, lecturing and facilitating a variety of workshop and tutorials
Full-time Immersive program where I extended my skills with jQuery, JavaScript, ReactJS, AngularJS, Firebase, Git, Shopify (Liquid), PHP and Wordpress theme development
Graduated with a Bachelors of Education with Honours in Intermediate/Senior General Visual Art and Social Science with a specilization in Media Arts and Technology.
Graduated with a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional studies with a specilization in Anthropology and Ethnographic Research Methods.