Esteban De Los Santos Lezama

Currently a teacher of computer science and technology in the Toronto area, Esteban De Los Santos Lezama has had a varied career that spans teaching, electronics, civil engineering, computer programming, Web design, fine arts, and graphic design. He trained as an electronics technician at IADE, a technical academy in Montevideo, Uruguay, completing coursework in 1976. Esteban De Los Santos Lezama proceeded to obtain a Bachelor’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of the Republic in Montevideo. In 1985, he traveled to Italy to seek post-graduate training in Business Administration at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei, a nonprofit research institution in Milan.

From 1988 to 1991, Mr. De Los Santos Lezama worked on design and management of engineering projects for the State Railways Administration of Uruguay. Already executing paintings displayed in gallery shows in Montevideo and in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Esteban De Los Santos Lezama decided to seek formal art training in the early 1990s. He majored in graphic arts at Washington State University in Pullman, and received a Master of Fine Arts in 1993. Over the course of several years, he exhibited graphic works, paintings, and drawings in shows at Washington State and the University of Washington in Seattle.

In the late 1990s, he earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science at the University of the Republic. He worked for Seinco, a private engineering consultancy firm in Montevideo, then taught computer applications and designed web sites for ITM. Later, for more than four years he worked as a Programmer Analyst / Web and Graphic Designer for the Bioinformatics Supercomputing Centre at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. To earn a teaching credential, Mr. De Los Santos Lezama obtained a Bachelor’s degree in Education from York University in 2005. He has taught in Ontario ever since.

Esteban De Los Santos Lezama speaks Spanish, English, Italian, French, and Portuguese. He belongs to the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation, the Association of Translators and Interpreters of Ontario (ATIO), and the Association for Computer Studies Educators. Certified as a translator by ATIO, Mr. De Los Santos Lezama has translated a variety of texts from English into Spanish and from Spanish into English.