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Paolo Villanueva

Paolo Villanueva is a designer with a background in engineering. He is passionate about creating accessible unique digital and physical experiences in virtual and augmented reality. He holds an MFA in Design and Technology from Parsons and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science.

Paolo has a diverse career in digital and media production, software development, social impact advocacy, and non-profit leadership.

Paolo currently works as a Creative Director at Heizenrader, a prominent company in the field of educational technology that enables anyone to create learning experiences using their platform called EducationXR. In his role, Paolo is responsible for overseeing the creative direction, principal communication and execution of various projects that leverage spatial computing to enhance the learning experience of medical institutions and medical device manufacturers such as General Electric, Siemens, Philips, Mayo Clinic, Mass General Hospital, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, University of Nebraska Medical Center, ThermoFisher, Edwards Lifesciences, Bracco Diagnostics and a variety of US Career Technical Education sponsored community colleges.