# Leslie Winston III > I design and build apps • Prev @ IDEO CoLab, Techstars, Deloitte Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/lesliewinstoniii I'm a natural problem solver who enables entrepreneurial success for founders by designing high-quality digital experiences that meet a real need. ## Work Experience ### Founding Product Designer @ Sats Terminal Jan 2025 – Present ### CEO & Co-Founder @ Monocle Jan 2021 – Present Monocle is a social e-reading app that transforms the reading experience through real-time shared perspectives. After posting a picture of a single page inside a book I was reading, I realized the opportunity for any readers' thoughts to be embedded within any book, creating a sense of real-time community while reading. I designed Monocle to transform reading into a social experience. ### Product Designer & Owner @ Channel Zero Jan 2019 – Present https://www.channelzerodesign.com/ Channel Zero specializes in creating effective digital experiences that span between the following methods: • App Design (UI/UX, Interactive Prototypes, etc.) • Web Design • Web Development (Webflow) • Logo Design • Brand Design (Animations) • Product Strategy (Web3, Consumer, B2B, etc.) ### Senior Product Designer @ Bubble Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States ### Product Design Associate @ Techstars Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland Techstars Launchpool Web3 Accelerator: • Supported nine web3 start-ups in all aspects of the product design process (research, ideation, prototyping, testing, etc.) • Designed pitch decks for select companies to elevate their product and attract institutional capital Techstars Equitech Accelerator • Supported twelve start-ups in all aspects of the product design process (research, ideation, prototyping, testing, etc.) • Designed pitch decks for select companies to elevate their product and attract institutional capital • Designed digital and physical assets for the in-person demo day (program, posters, social media posts, t-shirts, etc.) ### Product Designer @ Breakerbox Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Boston Area Created new digital experiences for electricity procurement and management. My role consisted of: • Opportunity discovery, stakeholder conversations, industry research, and synthesis of findings • Designed and prototyped web and mobile experiences to communicate and enable business value in the electricity market (onboarding experiences, conceptual tools for energy managers, e-commerce, etc.) • Created static and animated branding assets for our digital presence across multiple channels ### Business Technology Analyst @ Deloitte Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Washington D.C. Metro Area • Worked in client-facing, agile environment to identify stakeholder needs and craft functional and non-functional requirements for ERP systems ### Design Fellow @ IDEO CoLab Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area Design fellowship at IDEO’s R&D lab. Winter Fellowship 2019 • Designed and prototyped a tool that enabled gig workers to receive traditional employment benefits by exchanging cash tips with benefit contributions. Summer Fellowship 2019 • Designed and prototyped a tool that provided affordable and accessible catastrophe insurance (CAT bonds) through the use of blockchain-based prediction markets. • Designed Low-Lit Toolkit, a resource to empower developers building financial applications in low-literacy contexts (I.e. Google's Next Billion Users) ### Consulting by Degrees Technology Intern @ IBM Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Washington D.C. Metro Area Technology Intern in IBM's Consulting by Degree Public Sector practice with a specialization in UI/UX design: • Created client/user-driven interface designs through design thinking and front-end development tools such as InVision for prototyping and JavaScript, React, and WebPack for implementation ### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area Undergraduate research assistant on project QuANTUM (Qualitative Analysis for Network of Things models of Tactical Units in Mobile environments): • Utilized EMANE (Extendable Mobile Ad-hoc Network Emulator) to establish various scenarios of military interest involving ad hoc networks consisting of network of things (NoT) devices to gain an understanding of the impact of dynamic environments on key quality attributes (e.g., performance) ### Intel Computer Engineering Tutor @ North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area • Assisted students studying Electrical and Computer Engineering in Java Programming, Circuit Analysis, Digital Logic, and Calculus 10 hours per week • Developed and facilitated student programs that aimed to increase student retention within the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department ### Intern @ Booz Allen Hamilton Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Washington D.C. Metro Area • Collaborated with an intern team of six students to develop feasible software solutions as well as working prototypes that aid undercover field agents to drastically reduce the likelihood of compromising identity ### Opportunity Funding Corporation (OFC) Innovation and Entrepreneurship Program @ Thurgood Marshall College Fund Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area • Utilized design thinking principles in a collaborative team effort to create a mobile application prototype and comprehensive business model in 72 hours • Prototyped "Healthi", an iOS application aimed to revolutionize preventative healthcare by providing valuable insight to a user's condition through thoughtful analysis of the user's key health metrics collected by a paired hardware device (Demonstartion of "Healthi" can be seen below). ### Web Developer & Technology Assistant @ North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greensboro, North Carolina • Actively updated, maintained, and serviced the website for the College of Engineering Computer Center using HTML and CSS • Assisted students and faculty who were having technical difficulties with the computers or other devices ### Lead Teacher @ MathScience Innovation Center Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Richmond, Virginia • Developed interactive course curriculum suitable for middle school students • Lead instructor of Architectural Design course for 6th and 7th graders • Translated fundaments of architecture and basic design concepts into interactive and simple, yet effective activities and projects ### Sales Associate @ Sears Holdings Corporation Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 • Generated sales by assessing customer needs in finding suitable home appliances • Sustained and articulated detailed knowledge about products to customers ## Education ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Engineering North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University ### Universidad Carlos III de Madrid ### Architecture Syracuse University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lesliewinston3 - Portfolio: https://www.thethirdleslie.com/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/lesliewinstoniii JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/lesliewinstoniii/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29