William F Leonard

IT Security Software Sales Professional

IT Manager | Software Developer | Technical Consultant

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Professional Summary

I am currently the IT Manager for a small financial firm specializing in municipal bond investments. In addition, I serve as an IT consultant for several small business websites, developing both back-end and front-end software solutions.

My recent work has focused on building advanced PHP and JavaScript dashboards, and I am actively leveraging large language models such as Claude, OpenAI, Grok, and Anthropic. I am proficient in JavaScript, Python, Node.js, PHP, HTML, JSON, and SQL.

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Education

Bachelor of Science in Electronic Engineering Technology

DeVry University, Columbus, OH | GPA: 3.15/4.0

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Military Service

US Army: 6 years, SGT NCO Communications

US Air Force National Guard: 6 years, SSGT NCO Flight Communications

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

JavaScript Python PHP C SQL Java Shell Scripting

Web Technologies

HTML CSS Node.js WordPress Bootstrap JSON API Integration

Database & Systems

MySQL Oracle Sybase Linux Administration UNIX Administration

Infrastructure & Tools

Enterprise Servers Storage Management Network Administration GitHub Google Analytics

AI & Modern Tools

Claude OpenAI Grok Anthropic MCP LLM Integration

Professional Skills

Project Management Technical Instruction Team Leadership Problem Solving

Professional Experience

2020 - Present

IT Manager

MuniHub – Red Bank, NJ

  • Manage quarterly corporate software releases in an Enterprise WordPress application
  • Maintain production, development, and staging Linux servers
  • Coordinate with external software development companies
  • Develop customer metric reports via API, JSON, and Python scripts
  • Create and maintain MySQL databases and network accounts
  • Interact with financial advisors and assist with disseminating Municipal Bond information
2002 - Present

IT Consultant

Saxon Enterprises, Inc - Tinton Falls, NJ

  • Design, develop, and maintain WordPress websites using PHP, HTML & JavaScript with MySQL databases
  • Develop front/back-end web applications, splash, and landing web pages, static and e-commerce
  • Administer Linux Servers, hosting 10+ customer websites, daily backups
  • Create Internet ads, manage, design, and craft email campaigns
  • Create and maintain databases, network accounts and programs for customer CMDB needs
  • Manage multiple customer Google Analytics and Google Adwords programs
2017 - 2024

Computer Science Adjunct Professor

Brookdale Community College - Lincroft, NJ

  • Develop effective learning Lesson Plans for STEM classes
  • Coordinated and established Canvas LMS & Cengage LMS Semester course syllabus and resources
  • Instruct two HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and 3 Python classes, 9 credit hours, delivering lectures to +/-120 Students
  • Evaluate student performance and provided feedback throughout the semester
  • Design, demonstrate course material examples, and create assignments, quizzes, and final exams
2003 - 2008

IT Specialist, Technical Lead, Technical Storage Sales Specialist

IBM – NJ & NY

  • IBM TotalStorage Technical Sales Subject Matter Expert, POCs, and customer installation support
  • Translated business goals, feature concepts and customer into prioritized product requirements and use cases
  • Lead IBM Storage Software installation engineer at Ford Motor Credit
  • Supported AT&T Data Centers Enterprise Servers and Storage, Software Development Teams, Change Control and NOC
1998 - 2003

Enterprise Data Center Manager

IBM/AT&T – NJ

  • Responsible for the Enterprise management of two AT&T data centers in NJ/NY
  • Maintained positive SLAs for AT&T Billing, Provisioning & Circuit Engineering applications
  • Instituted working disaster recovery procedures between sites for instantaneous failover
  • Database Manager overseeing 12 DBAs, maintaining 8 Enterprise Applications
1996 - 1998

IT Consultant

Various - NJ

  • Directed and led a team of UNIX System Admins & Project Managers with Beneficial Finance's Web Development
  • Instrumental in Test, Integration, & Quality Assurance of JCALS (SharePoint) on Multi-Unix Platforms
  • Developed automation scripts for AT&T and centralized messaging system for SAKS 5th Ave
1987 - 1996

UNIX Administrator & Database Administrator

AT&T – Dublin, OH

  • UNIX Administrator responsible for the AT&T Learning Center Data Center
  • C Programmer creating UNIX shell utilities to enhance admin responsibilities
  • Oracle/Informix Database Administration creating Data Warehouses for Management

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Location

15 Shea Ln
Tinton Falls, NJ 07724

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