Michael Leschart

Senior Product Engineering Manager @ Accenture

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

About

I'm a Senior Engineering Manager with a strong foundation in front-end technologies and a passion for leading high-performing teams through complex digital transformations. Over the past few years, I’ve delivered scalable, accessible solutions for enterprise clients. And now, I’m helping to shape the work before it begins. In my current role with Accenture, I work across the full lifecycle of delivery—from early-stage estimation and solutioning to team leadership and technical execution. I collaborate with sales and architecture teams to define realistic scopes and ensure our proposals balance innovation, feasibility, and client value. At the core, I’m driven by clarity—in code, in communication, and in delivery. I enjoy bridging gaps between technical and non-technical stakeholders, mentoring engineers, and building digital experiences that are elegant, inclusive, and built to last.

Experience

  • Accenture (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
    • Senior Manager Product Engineering
      Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

      ● Lead multidisciplinary delivery teams while expanding responsibilities into pre-sales and solution design ● Partner closely with engagement leads and technical architects to shape proposals, estimate delivery effort, and align solutions to client goals. ● Guide engineering teams through the delivery lifecycle with a focus on technical quality, team growth, and scalable implementation

    • Front End Development Manager
      May 2021 - Jun 2025 · 4 yrs 2 mos

      ● Lead diverse front-end development teams and manage development and delivery of multiple features and client projects ● Implement agile methodologies and workflows, improving project transparency and team processes ● Collaborate with product managers, product owners and cross-functional teams to define project requirements, set deadlines, and allocate resources ● Involved in recruitment, onboarding, performance evaluation, and conflict resolution

  • The Globe and Mail (4 yrs)
    • Front End Development Lead
      Sep 2020 - May 2021 · 9 mos

      Led front end development for the Globe subscription team, which is responsible for subscriber onboarding and the client preferences portal ● Conducted code reviews, ensuring the application of best practices, and maintaining the highest quality standards. ● Mentored junior engineers, fostering a culture of continuous learning and improvement

    • Senior Front End Developer
      Jun 2017 - Sep 2020 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Senior member of the Globe and Mail subscription team, which is responsible for the Globe's digital and print subscription e-commerce site. ● Lead projects that help sales staff create campaigns, update messaging and make the digital subscription flow more responsive, flexible and intuitive ● Perform presentations and sprint demonstrations for project stakeholders, executives and development team members ● Regularly perform peer code reviews ● Create prototypes and make project architecture decisions ● Completed the Globe's Emerging Leaders program ● Work with project managers and scrum masters to refine requirements and plan sprints

  • Senior Front End Developer at Accenture
    Oct 2016 - Jun 2017 · 9 mos

    Senior member of the Accenture Interactive Front-End Development team, which uses agile methods to deliver large-scale interactive projects to industry-leading clients around the world. ● Architect and lead responsive, interactive projects, working with HTML5, modular JavaScript, ES6, Sass, JSON and React. ● Regularly performed presentations for clients and team members to discuss and provide the rationale for technical decisions ● Continually monitored industry news to stay current with new tools and best practices ● Received Scaled Agile Framework 4.0 certification ● Participated in an Accenture leadership training program

  • CBC News (4 yrs 10 mos)
    • Senior Developer, Web Design and Media Production
      Aug 2014 - Oct 2016 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Senior member of the 12-person CBC News Interactives team, which creates high-impact multimedia features, data visualizations and tools in cooperation with editorial teams and journalists across Canada. ● Plannned and led responsive, data-driven projects, working with HTML5, modular JavaScript, Sass, JSON and frameworks such as React, jQuery, D3, Handlebars and Leaflet ● Architected and developed a responsive framework with Gulp, Foundation, Sass and NPM used to create several high-traffic, award-winning features ● Regularly performed presentations for executives and team members ● Continually monitoedr industry news to stay current with new tools and best practices

    • Regional Web Developer
      Jan 2012 - Aug 2014 · 2 yrs 8 mos

      ● Designed and developed news interactives, feature pages and data visualizations for a high-traffic news Website ● Worked with multiple content management systems and create/manage templates ● Collaborated with journalists to generate ideas for interactive treatments, and perform regular presentations and training sessions ● Regularly proposed treatment ideas and web solutions to non-technical managers ● Conceptualized, visualized and wireframed web solutions for presentation to colleagues

  • Multimedia Developer at Abacus Datagraphics Ltd.
    Jun 2007 - Dec 2011 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    ● Developed user-interface solutions for AbaData — an oil-and-gas-industry GIS application ● Designed and developed widgets, advertisements and training material for the corporate Website ● Responsible for advertising purchasing and budgeting ● Conceived and completed a user interface redesign of AbaData ● Developed features using the ArcGIS Javascript API, jQuery (and jQuery Mobile) and ASP.NET MVC ● Introduced a CPC advertising program and implemented analytics software to track conversions and traffic trends