About Me

Hi! I'm JD Leonard, an entrepreneur living in Oakland, CA.

I'm currently building TextbookMadness.com, a website to help students save money on textbooks. You can read more about it here. I also do freelance consulting. I specialize in Drupal module development and site building.

I'm engaged to the wonderful Laura Shepard.

Previously, I worked for Microsoft in Redmond, WA as a Program Manager in the Windows Live organization. My efforts there were focused on Windows Live Photo Gallery, Windows Live Mail, Windows Live Writer, plugins.live.com, and Windows 8. During my time at Microsoft, I lived in downtown Bellevue, WA.

In May 2009 I graduated from Rice University in Houston, TX with a degree in Computer Science. Before that, I lived in London, England where I attended The American School in London for grades 2-12. Prior to living in London, I spent the first seven years of my life in Rye, NY, a suburb of New York City.

Camp Dudley YMCA in Westport, NY is the summer camp that I attended in 1999 and 2000. I worked at Dudley each summer from 2003 through 2008. Dudley is an amazing place full of incredible people. If you have ever been Leader or Staff at Camp Dudley, please contact me to get in touch with other Leader/Staff alumni through a community website I run.

I enjoy listening to music, going to concerts, traveling, skiing, running, cooking and eating delicious food, and playing board games like Agricola and Settlers of Catan.
While I usually go by JD ( J.D. ), I am also known as John D. Leonard, John Daniel Leonard, and John Daniel H. Leonard.
-- JD Leonard