Matthew Allison Email & Phone Number

Sherbrooke, Quebec, Ca

As an Azure Presales Architect at Sherweb, I design and implement scalable, secure, and reliable cloud solutions tailored to client needs. I collaborate with sales teams to understand customer requirements, develop Azure architectures, and deliver compelling presentations and demos. My role involves creating proof of concepts, writing detailed proposals and Statements of Work, and acting as a trusted advisor throughout the cloud journey.

Redmond, Washington, Us

As a Senior Azure Specialist, I worked closely with enterprise businesses to facilitate their transition to Microsoft's cloud technology. This included providing education and resources, aligning their needs with the Azure portfolio, and overseeing deployment. My focus was on utilizing Azure's full range of capabilities, including infrastructure services, data platforms, AI/ML, and application development, to help customers achieve their business goals. My role was to support and guide their overall cloud transformation journey.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

In my brief tenure of six months in the position, I viewed it as a pivotal step towards advancing my career into management. As a Sales Manager, my primary focus was on preparing myself for the next level of leadership. I oversaw a team of six individuals, where my responsibilities included conducting employee evaluations, facilitating promotions and role transitions, and driving sales figures for the cloud business. Embracing a Model-Coach-Care framework, I fostered a supportive environment aimed at both personal and professional growth. While my time in this role was short-lived, I am confident in my ability to assume leadership roles in the future.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

As Cloud Solutions Consultant, I continued to be in charge of preparing our customer base for their transition to cloud computing and service-based solutions. I performed this task by staying in direct contact with customers and assisting them with resources, tools, and training material to help educate them on these new technologies. This would include all customer types including executives and technicians. This would also often include live demos and trainings I would conduct for inside sales staff as well as to our customers. This role, however, has a focus on Microsoft Azure sales and support but branched significantly out into the entire Microsoft cloud line of products and services. This required an extensive knowledge of a variety of Microsoft services involving security, device management, core infrastructure, and best practices for licensing and deployment. This inevitably expanded into a number of third party solutions to help navigate and best deploy and manage Azure environments such as Connectwise, Nerdio, CloudCheckr, as well as many others. My responsibilities as a solution-based support rep ultimately would include a selection of these cloud-based software products and required a working knowledge of them all to create a compute solution.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

As Cloud Technical Specialist, I was in charge of preparing our customer base for their transition to cloud computing and service-based solutions. I performed this task by staying in direct contact with customers and assisting them with resources, tools, and training material to help educate them on these new technologies. This would also often include live demos and trainings I would conduct for inside sales staff as well as to our customers. The training would normally include general cloud computing best practices, sales methodology, and solution building tips. As my role evolved, my focus became more on Microsoft Azure sales and support. Azure, like most IaaS environments, can be complicated and overwhelming at first so my role was to train sales staff and technicians in best practices and IaaS capabilities. These trainings were presented in recorded webcast videos in addition to live events. My role as Azure expert inevitably led me to many third party supporting tools and utilities I became intimately familiar with vendors such as Connectwise, Nerdio, Dropbox, and Axcient, as well as others. My responsibilities as a solution-based support rep ultimately would include a selection of these cloud-based software products and required a working knowledge of them all to create a compute solution.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

As the Sr. Intel Sales Specialist, I supported our customer base as a technical resource focused on servers and datacenter-related hardware. This was done by providing regular instructional webcasts broadcasted live to streaming customers, as well as conventional phone support. Additionally, I conducted several in-person training seminars covering Intel's entire product line. These training classes were often conducted at our tech conferences held throughout the country. In addition, my responsibilities also included creating and facilitating sales contests and promotions. These were developed regularly with a variety of goals and prizes. These promotions were often instated because of sales metrics and quotas I was also responsible for attaining. Over the course of my role as Sr. Intel Sales Specialist, our Intel server sales had steady overall sales increases.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

As a Solutions Specialist at D&H, I work with a team providing technical education and support to our reseller customer base. We regularly wrote and produced technical "how-to" webcasts which were broadcast live to streaming customers, followed by a live Q&A session. In addition, I conducted several in-person training seminars covering specific new product releases or new technology demonstrations. These in-person seminars sometimes required travel to places like Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston. In addition, my responsibilities also included providing pre-sales support for our reseller customer base. Normally this included developing and presenting complete product solutions for customer unaware of how to achieve their IT goals themselves. This was typically server configuration quotes as well as the accompanying accoutrements including, but not limited to, networking equipment, digital signage, and mass storage devices.

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Over the course of 10 years, I worked as a Sales Representation with various territory sizes and complexities. My primary responsibility was to achieve sales goals selling to accounts based entirely within a certain geographic area. This required standard and unique sales techniques during regular contact to clients in an effort to develop business and a personal rapport. Over my extensive time as a sales rep, I achieved those goals with fairly high degree of success. This success was due, in part, to the technical nature of my job and our customers. D&H is a distributor of electronics and computer components. My technical background played a heavy role in the way I would go about selling. It was important to me to establish myself as someone who could converse normally about a new gadget or technology that my customer wanted to know about. This trust I developed with my customers continues on to this day.

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Us

For the better part of the year in 2001, I was a contracted as an IT Support Specialist. My responsibilities included mainly maintaining their PBX system; performing extension changes and organizing the company directory. I was also tasked with providing help desk support daily and kept inventory of all company computer equipment.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Harrisburg, Pa, Us

Education record

A.S., Computer Systems Specialist