Leon Adato

Biography

In a career spanning three decades and four countries, Leon Adato has been an actor, electrician, carpenter, stage combat instructor, pest control technician, Sunday school teacher, and ASL interpreter. He also occasionally worked on computers.

Leon got his start teaching computer classes, worked his way up the IT food chain from desktop support to server support to desktop environment standardization engineer and onward, to systems monitoring, management, and automation. Along the way, he discovered a weird love for taking tests, and picked up an alphabet's worth of certifications, including WPCR, CNE, A+, MCP, MCSE, MCSE+I, CCNA, and SCP.

Leon spent almost 20 years honing his monitoring skills at companies that ranged from big (National City Bank) to bigger (Cardinal Health®) to ludicrous (Nestlé®), becoming proficient with a variety of tools and solutions along the way.

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Books

The Four Questions Every Monitoring Engineer is Asked
Price: $9.99 USD. Words: 22,750. Language: American English. Published: April 1, 2019 . Categories: Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » Enterprise IT management, Nonfiction » Computers & Internet » System administration / general
The book “The Four Questions every Monitoring Engineer Is Asked” uses the Passover Seder as a framework to explore the questions monitoring professionals receive most often, along with strategies to answer those questions.
Technically, These Are Random Thoughts
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 9,430. Language: English. Published: January 29, 2019 . Categories: Essay » Technology
A month of responses to single-word prompts, collected from AdatoSystems.com
EdibleTorah: Echoes of Elul
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 22,540. Language: English. Published: January 29, 2019 . Categories: Essay » Sociology
An anthology of essays written during the month of Elul for 2013, 2014, and 2015 and posted to EdibleTorah.com.
A Condensed Guide to the Weekly Torah Readings
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 6,410. Language: English. Published: February 24, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Judaism
A free guide that lists a brief description of each Torah portion, in order, so you have a sense of what is going on without having to memorize the whole Megillah… I mean Chumash.
The Edible Torah
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 6,390. Language: English. Published: February 23, 2011 . Categories: Nonfiction » Religion & Spirituality » Judaism
A free guide on how to set up a "Potluck Shabbat" experience with family and friends. Liberally sprinkled with anecdotes, pithy quotes and personal insights into Shabbat, my "Jewish Journey" and why food can be a great gateway to meaningful Jewish learning.

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