Leo Solomons
Leo Solomons is the CompTIA A+ Facilitator at Westbury Youth Centre and Co-Owner of Aleixo Technologies.
Leo Solomons started his journey at the Westbury Youth Centre as a Volunteer enrolled in the Make It Better Program. The Make It Better Program was a Volunteer Program mandated to make the lives of our people in Westbury and surrounding areas better, through acts of kindness.
Leo, very early on, knew that he wanted to follow a career in IT as a Technician. So, he instantly gravitated towards anything technical. Whenever the MIBs went into the community to make the lives of the stakeholders better, he wanted to make things better at the Westbury Youth Centre through the End-User Computing Program, for example, he offered to assemble and put together the WYC Computer Lab along with two of his friends. Leo had buckets of experience before he arrived at the Westbury Youth Centre, he had a lot of experience in building computers from a young age as he was gifted with his first computer at the age of 10.
Leo Solomans
When asked about his journey he said: “I started teaching alongside Dicky as I already knew way more than the basics. I was kind of thrown into the deep end and was offered a chance to become a facilitator. Not only did I facilitate the End-User Computing Program but for a few months, I assisted up and coming talent with guitar lessons. I did that for a few years and eventually, I decided to take my career further by furthering my studies. I left the Westbury Youth Centre to self-study CompTIA A+ and Networking and successfully attained my qualification in October 2017 and February 2018.”
Leo assisting a student.
Leo returned to the WYC, shortly after and was offered a Learnership at Tshimologong through which he studied Networking and Coding. In 2019, Leo, upon his Learnership completion, returned to the WYC to start his technical support repair and desktop support business, namely Aleixo Technologies. In 2020, Leo became one of Mashup Community Development’s partners in extending the skillsets of our young people by facilitating the CompTIA A+ Program with the main purpose of educating and preparing the next generation of IT Technicians.
Networking Workshop.
Leo is currently freelancing as an IT Technician, facilitating the CompTIA A+ Program at the Westbury Youth Centre, and has started dabbling in Robotics.
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