Engineer Management
Resume:
Leon J. Adato
Beachwood, OH 44122 *******@*****.***
QUALIFICATIONS
21+ years of IT experience a diverse range of companies in a variety of sectors. Demonstrated technical
competency with proven project and team leadership, implementation, and support skills. Superb presentation
and communication skills along with exceptional analysis, problem solving, organizational, time management,
and technical skills. Extensive experience with systems management including monitoring, software
distribution, inventory and event correlation. Strong experience with voice and data networking hardware
applications.
CERTIFICATION & EDUCATION
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE: Windows 2003)+Messaging, 2005
Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), 2004
Cisco Unity System Engineer, 2004, 2005, 2006
Cisco Customer Response Solutions Developer (IPT, IVR), 2004, 2006
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (MCSE: NT4), 1999
Certified Novell 4.1 Engineer (CNE 4.1), 1996
Trained on ITIL v.3.0, 2009
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree (with honors) - New York University, 1989
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
11/11 present Sr. Consultant - Monitoring Cardinal Health Dublin, Ohio
Responsible for architectural vision of monitoring solution across 10,000 devices in a Fortune 19 company.
Developed business and technical plans to move from single solution, too-centric philosophy to a
heterogeneous toolset, multi-technique service-oriented vision for monitoring solutions.
Toolsets included Tivoli (Framework, ITNM, Omnibus/Netcool, TEP, TIP, TDW), Coradiant, UC4, Zenoss
and more.
05/10 11/11 Systems Monitoring Engineer Sentinel Technologies Chicago, Illinois
Designed and implemented a monitoring solution based on the full SolarWinds suite of tools, in support of
a new managed SaaS service which was resold to external customers. Installed and implemented this
solution in 90 days.
Created custom monitors and alerts for specialized hardware, complex applications and synthetic end-user
transactions,
Participated in customer demonstrations resulting in a higher incidence of closing the sale and/or upsells.
Created customer-facing documentation and training materials including webcasts and PDF handouts.
Enhanced off-the-shelf software with additional open-source tools including SEC (event correlation),
OpenFire, net-snmp and syslog-ng.
Programmed custom utilities to speed validation and onboarding of new customers.
11/09 05/10 IT Coordinator GROSS SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL Pepper Pike, Ohio
Evaluated, tested and implemented online gradebook, reportcards, attendance and parent portal, allowing
teachers to spend 25% more time focused on teaching rather than paperwork.
Improved marketing and family communication by migrating website from Frontpage to HTML, CSS, and
PHP, including complete visual re-design.
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Leon J. Adato
Leon Voice: (216)202-LEON
23227 Wendover Dr.
Beachwood, OH 44122 *******@*****.***
Subsequently upgrade entire site to Wordpress MultiSite, while maintaining the overall brand image and
layout. This permitted teachers to communicate via individual sub-sites (blogs) and leverage all the options
(RSS, email, twitter updates, etc) available through the Wordpress platform.
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Leon J. Adato
Leon Voice: (216)202-LEON
23227 Wendover Dr.
Beachwood, OH 44122 *******@*****.***
1/06 11/09. Systems Management Engineer NATIONAL CITY BANK / PNC Cleveland, Ohio
Made officer of the bank after 15 months.
Designed and coordinated the implementation of monitoring solutions internal and customer-facing projects
using a variety of toolsets including BMC Patrol, Proxima Centauri, Sitescope, HP Openview,
Interacted with lines of business to ensure new services and tools were monitored and managed to ensure
successful bank operations.
Supported engineering so that new devices and applications had monitoring standardized before the first
project required it, reducing drag on project teams by 10-30%.
Provided project estimates to supervisors, allowing more accurate workload management.
6/03 1/06 Systems Management Analyst TELSOURCE Strongsville, Ohio
Obtained 4 certifications in 3 months to secure Cisco Gold Partner status for company, resulting in a
savings of 70% on all equipment purchased.
Created monitoring and management solutions for network and telecom devices as part of new corporate
service offering. Capabilities created new revenue from 7,000 new systems from 15 new customers.
Created competitive VoIP assessment and remote management service.
Created internal event, ticketing, alert and resolution workflow solution using open-source tools.
5/02-6/03 Provided services as an independent contractor for the following projects:
Cleveland Metropolitan School District Cleveland, Ohio
Stabilized and extended 10,000 system Tivoli installation after sudden departure of former service provider.
Implemented monitoring solution based on SolarWinds, Kiwi CatTools and custom scripting
Tivoli Architect JONES, DAY, REAVIS & POGUE Cleveland, Ohio
* (part-time contract resource through RHT and Telsource)
Upgraded Tivoli installation with minimal direction, allowing FTE's to concentrate on long-term goals.
Created WinXP-based workstation image to ease support of 5,000 PC s .
6/97 5/02 Senior Infrastructure Architect NESTL Solon, Ohio & Vevey, Switzerland
Recipient of key employee incentive bonuses from 1998-2002
Stabilized existing Tivoli installation in the US, covering 10,000 systems in 80 locations.
Designed, developed and deployed a Tivoli-based enterprise systems management solution worldwide to
250,000 systems (Unix and Wintel) at 5,000 locations worldwide.
Coordination the rollout of a standard PC image to 800 systems over 8 months.
Repackaged over 100 applications using SMS and WISE to avoid loss of mission-critical capabilities.
Provided server and desktop support as needed.
11/94 6/97 LAN Analyst ALLEN BRADLEY Mayfield Heights, Ohio
Created standard PC image for Windows 3.x systems, reducing PC installation time by 50%
Provided server, desktop and call-in helpdesk support in a richly heterogeneous environment.
Information on employment history prior to 1994 available upon request
References also available upon request
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Leon J. Adato
Leon Voice: (216)202-LEON
23227 Wendover Dr.
Beachwood, OH 44122 *******@*****.***
Technical Skills Summary
Operating systems & Server Applications
Internet Information Server
Windows server NT through 2008
Linux (various distributions)
Windows 9x, XP, 2000, Vista, 7
Mac OS
MS Exchange 2003
Novell Netware (4.x)
MS-SQL server
Unix (HP-UX, AIX, Solaris)
MySQL server
VirtualBox
DOS
VMWare (workstation, server, ESX, VirtualCenter)
Desktop Applications
Adobe Photoshop MS Office (Word, Excel, etc)
CorelDraw MS Project
Davka (2000, Platinum) OpenOffice
GiMP PageMaker
Lotus 1-2-3 Visio
MS FrontPage WordPerfect
Programming Languages
ASP Perl
Batch and CMD files SQL (MS-SQL, MySQL)
CSS UNIX shell (sh, ksh, etc)
HTML Various macro languages (Word, Excel etc)
Javascript VBScript
PHP Windows Scripting Host
Systems Management Tools
BMC Patrol Overall understanding of SNMP, MIBs, OIDS, etc
HP Openview SEC event correlation
Kiwi Syslog SiteScope
Kiwi CatTools (now SolarWinds NCM) SolarWinds NPM, APM, NCM, IP-SLA, Netflow and
Nagios synthetic end-user monitor
NetIQ Syslog-ng
net-SNMP Tivoli (Framework, DM, Inventory, Software Dist.)
Proxima Centauri WISE Package Installer
Network & Telecom
Adtran SMART 16e chassis Familiarity with Cisco IOS on many routers & switches
Cisco Unity & Unity Express Various Linksys, Belkin, Netgear wireless AP s & routers
Cisco CallManager & CallManager Express Familiarity with Paradyne LRE switches
Web Applications & Development
(as mentioned above: HTML, CSS, PHP, ASP, Joomla
Javascript) osCommerce / oscMax
Adobe Flash CS4 TinyMCE
CivicRM WordPress
Drupal
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