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Matthew J. Buono
Cleveland,OH
Summary
Professional architect with strong expertise in designing and implementing innovative architectural solutions. Skilled in managing complex projects, fostering team collaboration, and driving results. Adept at balancing creative vision with practical constraints. Known for adaptability and reliability in dynamic environments.
Overview
18
18
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Hybrid Cloud Principal Architect
Logicalis
09.2021 - Current
- Services Solution Principal Architect focused on the Modern Data Center and Hybrid Cloud solutions
- Solution services include Application Rationalization, Data Center migration and consolidation, Automation & DevOps, and Hybrid Cloud business development
- Create service offerings for the hybrid cloud practice
- Create POV & Workshop materials for Hybrid Cloud
- Drive pursuit strategy for hybrid cloud & related opportunities
- Build customer facing deliverables & presentations
- Interface with customer C-suite
- Collaboration with Sales leadership, solution architecture team and account executive team
Hybrid Cloud Solution Architect
Logicalis
04.2021 - 09.2021
- Services Solution Architect focused on the Modern Data Center and Hybrid Cloud solutions
- Solution services include Application Rationalization, Data Center migration and consolidation, and Automation & DevOps
- Create POV & Workshop materials for Hybrid Cloud
- Drive pursuit strategy for complex data center & opportunities
- Build customer facing deliverables & presentations
- Interface with customer C-suite
- Collaboration with Sales leadership, solution architecture team and account executive team
Business Solution Consultant
Logicalis
06.2019 - 05.2021
- Collaborates with field Account Executives (AE) to develop, pursue and propose complete Logicalis solutions spanning the entire portfolio with an emphasis on Logicalis recurring services and practice initiatives
- Closes profitable sales transactions that deliver business results to clients by developing knowledge of customer organizations and develops customer and partner relationships
- Manage Services Pipeline for Cleveland Ohio region for 14 sales representatives
- Leverage Logicalis Services Portfolio to solve customer business problems
- Drive pursuit strategy for complex opportunities
- Build customer facing deliverables & presentations
- Interface with customer C-suite
- Collaboration with Sales leadership, solution architecture team and account executive team
Manager of Consulting Services
Logicalis
09.2017 - 06.2019
- Responsible for managing a consulting delivery team and primarily focused on advanced Cloud strategies, assessments, and recommendations as part of the consulting organization
- Create Consulting Catalogue offerings
- Managed Billable utilization of the Consulting Team
- Create Point of View presentations, Presales presentations, and Consulting IP
- Build customer facing deliverables
- Pre-sales and Delivery of Consultative Engagements and Technical assessments
- Creation and presentation of customer engagement findings and recommended strategy
- Collaboration with Sales leadership for Consulting/Assessment go-to-market strategy
Cloud Solution Consultant
Logicalis/MCPC
02.2013 - 08.2017
- Responsible for delivering consulting services primarily focused on advanced cloud strategies, assessments, and recommendations as part of the CTO and consulting team
- Work as part of the consulting team that designs, architects, and delivers technology solutions in support of Logicalis/MCPc reference architecture
- Build customer facing deliverables
- Build consulting practice offering/catalogue
- Strategic Consulting Engagement offerings
- Tactical Business-Unit focused assessment offerings
- Pre-sales and Delivery of Consultative Engagements and Technical assessments
- Creation and presentation of customer engagement findings and recommended strategy
- Collaboration with Sales leadership for Consulting/Assessment go-to-market strategy
Virtualization Engineer
MCPC
01.2007 - 01.2013
- Serve primarily as virtualization design and delivery engineer for MCPc’s virtualization practice focusing on implementations for MCPc’s customers with specific datacenter products
- I work as a pre-sales engineer as part of my duties in being a trusted advisor for MCPc’s customers and their vision
- As part of that trusted advisor role, I am the subject matter expert for VMware, Citrix, Microsoft, Symantec, Dell and HP
- VMware vSphere & Virtual Infrastructure design and implementation based on VMware/MCPc best practices and customer requirements
- Virtual Machine performance modeling & analysis based on VMware Capacity Planner Assessments
- Design strategies to assist customers in converting physical servers to virtual machines
- Created and designed VMware Healthcheck assessments along with TCO/ROI analysis for customers
- VDI solution design and implementation based on VMware/Citrix/MCPc best practices and customer requirements utilizing VMware View and Citrix XenDesktop with Provisioning server
- Storage design based on multi-vendor best practices using performance analysis assessments for customers
- Backup systems design and implementation focusing on Symantec backup products and de-duplication
- Microsoft Active Directory design and migration from NT4 to 2008 R2
- Extensive customer documentation utilizing Microsoft Visio and Office 2010 suite
- Authoring delivery documents and white papers for MCPc best practices document library
Education
A.A.S. - Computer Information Systems
Alfred State University
Alfred, NY01.1998
Skills
- Data center infrastructure & services architecture
- Data center migration & consolidation solution selling
- Data center & hybrid cloud solutions business development
- Data & AI solution selling
- Enterprise Service Management
- Mergers & acquisitions solution selling
- Team Management
- Budget development
- Value engineering
- Technical architecture design
- Public speaking/presenting
- 25 years professional IT Experience
Accomplishments
- Acted as creative and aesthetic consultant for the interior renovation of [Building Name], a historic landmark in [City, State].
- Completed a $[Amount] project [Number] months early and under budget.
- Managed more than $[Amount] million in exterior and interior landscapes for commercial shopping malls, hotels and resorts.
- Led a [Number]-person design team through all phases of commercial building projects.
- Designed [Number] multi-family residences for a property development initiative.
Summaryofcertificationsandskills
- Public speaking/presenting
- Data Center services architecture
- Data Center & Hybrid Cloud Solutions Business Development
- Mergers & Acquisitions Solution Selling
- Data Center Migration & Consolidation Solution Selling
- DevOps & Automation with Red Hat Ansible
- Team Management
- 24 years professional IT Experience
- NVidia AI Infrastructure & Operations Certification (NCA-AIIO)
Certification
- Associate Constructor (AC) - American Institute of Constructors.
Interests
Timeline
Hybrid Cloud Principal Architect
Logicalis
09.2021 - Current
Hybrid Cloud Solution Architect
Logicalis
04.2021 - 09.2021
Business Solution Consultant
Logicalis
06.2019 - 05.2021
Manager of Consulting Services
Logicalis
09.2017 - 06.2019
Cloud Solution Consultant
Logicalis/MCPC
02.2013 - 08.2017
Virtualization Engineer
MCPC
01.2007 - 01.2013
- Associate Constructor (AC) - American Institute of Constructors.
A.A.S. - Computer Information Systems
Alfred State University
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