Matt Schneider Email & Phone Number

Texas, United States

Somerset, NJ, US

• Serving the Western and Southern US region, acted as a virtual CTO for customers, partners, and sales teams. My key contributions included:
• Serving as executive sponsor for Tier 1 sales and delivery, providing oversight, escalation, and thought leadership to customer IT and finance executives, focusing on cloud adoption, hybrid cloud, GenAI and RPA.
• Led the Datacenter & Networking thought leadership track for quarterly executive briefings, focusing on hybrid-cloud solutions, cloud strategy, datacenter planning, and network architecture.
• Spoke at numerous events, including SHI Roadshows, OEM Tradeshows, Higher Education CIO Summits, webinars, and regional events; working with marketing on new content creation and evangelist strategy.
• Achieved piNPS (personal impact on NPS) rating of 78, reflecting strong peer collaboration and satisfaction.
• Partnered with key customers on emerging technology adoption, such as Robotic Process Automation (RPA) for a large manufacturer mergers and acquisitions (M&A), Generative AI for universities, and Hybrid Cloud for a.

Hyannis, Massachusetts, US

• Served as Chief Architect for a national technology consulting and reseller, focusing on the US East region and new markets. My responsibilities included overseeing technology sales, solutions, and delivery success..
• Provided Virtual CTO consulting engagements, offering strategic IT guidance and transformative plans for diverse healthcare sector clients. Transitioned EMR to MSP, transitioned cloud providers for synergy.
• Enhanced internal technical sales enablement by creating collaboration spaces and activity reporting tools.
• Aligned executive technical strategies for Fortune 25 accounts, focusing on ESG and DEI through building early career development programs, accelerating Fortune 100 and Federal Government reseller relationships.
• Conducted speaking sessions at various OEM trade shows and local industry gatherings, sharing insights on cloud strategy and technological innovations, including opening new geographic sales markets.
• Engaged with local technology businesses and university programs, delivering keynote speeches at local tech chapter meetings and numerous local events.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• Served as Field CTO and Principal Engineer for all North American Presales providing technical and strategic advise across customers, partners, and our internal organizations, aligning across all customer segments and.
• Led the extended Field CTO team, aligning with specific territories, technologies, and emerging themes.
• Created and led the CTO Ambassador program, focused on emerging technologies we connected field technologists with Dell’s R&D divisions to align product roadmaps with customer insights and priority.
• Organized technical sales resources across Dell’s extensive portfolio to create a holistic architectural vision for strategic customers, driving and reviewing sale deals exceeding 50 million dollars.
• Served as the Principal Engineer for all North American Presales, providing technical, talent, and thought leadership for our sales engineers, developed educational material and hosted solutions workshops.
• Frequently spoke at industry events and actively participated in early career education programs.

Round Rock, Texas, US

• As part of the Dell Technologies Global Transformation Office (GTO), served as Chief Architect for the Americas and created then led the Enterprise Architecture practice. My team and I served as trusted advisors to our.
• Aligned with clients’ executive management to organize resources across the Dell Technologies family of companies, crafting an architectural vision supporting customers transformation journey.
• Participated in cross-functional groups providing direction to product engineering teams to ensure customer-oriented viewpoints are incorporated into future technology roadmaps and priority.
• Served as a Transformation Ambassador, speaking at industry events about Dell Technologies’ future vision, emerging technologies, and digital trends while focusing on the cultural and leadership that drives change.

Hopkinton, MA, US

• Responsible for developing technical strategies, architecture, and solutions for key transformation accounts.
• Built and maintained relationships with key client stakeholders, including CxO, enterprise architects, and senior management across IT and business units.
• Leveraged Enterprise Architecture practices to integrate business, application, data, and technology domains into comprehensive solutions.
• Led coordination and collaboration of Dell Technologies’ business unit architects, engineers, and technical leads through inclusive architecture governance models.

Savannah, Georgia, US

• Led a diverse team of over 130 professionals across various IT disciplines through a significant IT transformation. Key achievements included:
• Infrastructure Rebuild: Rebuilt the infrastructure by replacing multiple hardware platforms with three vBlock converged infrastructure solutions. Virtualized all workloads with vSphere 5.5 and implemented Site.
• IT Service Management: Implemented IT Service Management with Microsoft System Center, introducing new Incident, Service Request, Change, and Problem management processes. Managed over 10,000 tickets per month.
• Monitoring Overhaul: Overhauled the monitoring approach and technology using tools such as New Relic, vRealize Operations Manager, Solarwinds Orion, and Quest Performance Analytics. Orchestrated through System Center.
• Budget Management: Managed IT budget planning, review, and allocation, ensuring cost-effective and strategic use of resources.

Richardson, Texas, US

• Led of a strong team of 50 engineers, analysts, and managers, overseeing Data Center Operations, Platform Engineering, Network Operations Center, Capacity/Configuration Management, OperationalResiliency (DR/BC), and IT.
• Virtualization Overhaul: Executed a complete overhaul of the virtualization platform, setting up a greenfield environment with VMware vCloud 5.1. Migrated over 2500 virtual machines in 12 months, creating a highly.
• Self-Service Provisioning: Led the design and implementation of vCloud Director for development and test self-service provisioning. Enabled the deployment of over 1000 virtual machines by end-users within 30 days of.
• Storage Infrastructure: Implemented EMC Symmetrix VMAX to replace underperforming technology, improving performance and reducing costs. Utilized FAST VP for storage tiering, thin provisioning for long-term growth, and.
• Operational Resiliency: Established the Operational Resiliency function and team, creating Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity, and Incident Response Plan processes and documentation. Successfully leveraged these.
• Budget and Vendor Management: Managed the infrastructure IT budget and vendor relationships, renegotiating multiple contracts and implementing on-demand scaling models to ensure cost-effectiveness.

Plano, Texas, US

• Responsible for enterprise cloud and data center strategies. Key achievements included:
• Technology Simplification: Led a task force focused on simplifying the technology landscape by reducing applications and modernizing infrastructure through full virtualization and converged infrastructure initiatives.

Plano, Texas, US

• Assumed responsibility for the enterprise storage systems team during a period of chronic performance due to material impact to company bottom line revenue and customer satisfaction. Key achievements included:
• Performance Improvement: Quickly implemented changes to address business impacts, resulting in the elimination of multi-day system outages within three months. Improved storage performance, reducing disk response times.
• Cost Savings: Removed over $10 million from OpEx spending in the first fiscal year cycle through consolidation, tiering, thin provisioning, and technology vendor reselection.
• Custom Reporting: Developed custom executive management reporting for storage, ensuring continued performance assurance and visibility to capacity needs.
• Long-Term Strategy: Developed a long-term storage strategy and roadmap, ensuring proper product lifecycle replacement and advanced planning of lease refresh cycles.

Plano, Texas, US

• Leadership role for the JCPenney.com re-platform initiative, responsible for transitioning from a custom Windows/.Net/SQL application to Oracle’s ATG eCommerce platform. Key achievements included:
• Architecture Design: Designed the entire physical architecture, including AIX, WebSphere application server, Oracle RAC databases, network, and storage.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Led a cross-functional team of infrastructure engineers on the detailed design and implementation of the infrastructure.
• Executive Reporting: Presented regular progress reports to IT executive leadership, including analysis behind selecting ATG, funding requests, and implementation progress reports.

Plano, Texas, US

• Responsible for the application sizing and ongoing performance, capacity, and demandmanagement of all JCPenney information systems. Key achievements included:
• Consolidation Efforts: Championed an extensive cross-platform consolidation effort, providing targets, guidance, and tuning as hundreds of physical servers were consolidated into VMware, PowerVM, MSSQL Clustering, and.
• Custom Capacity Management System: Designed and programmed a custom Capacity Management Information System using.Net and MSSQL, capable of identifying performance root causes and efficiency opportunities through.
• Performance Improvements: Led a specialized team to resolve numerous performance problems with the Oracle ERP implementation, reducing daily batch processing windows from over 24 hours to 6 hours and improving user.

Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, US

• Lead Architect for all Windows-based projects in the Business and Operations Systems business unit, covering American Airlines, American Eagle, AACargo, B2E, Finance, and HR. Key achievements included:
• Enterprise-Wide Projects: Led major projects such as enterprise-wide NT4.0 elimination, SOX compliance, HP Blade implementation, and initial VMware deployment.
• Project Design and Implementation: Teamed with Software Architecture to determine the correct development platform, detailed hardware and software configuration, built bills of materials, documented implementation.
• Collaboration Site Development: Developed a SharePoint-based collaboration site for project and document tracking, improving project management and communication.

Chicago, IL, US

• Led the server, network, desktop support, and development labs teams. Key achievements included:
• Productivity Enhancement: Led the implementation of Microsoft Operations Framework (MOF) and Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF), increasing productivity and teamwork.
• Server Consolidation: Directed the architecture and project management of server consolidation, utilizing high availability techniques such as MS cluster services, centralized storage management, and multi-tiered.
• SOX Compliance: Principal solutions architect and developer for portions of Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) compliance in the first year of regulation. Leveraged in-house tools and custom programming to provide a robust, digital.

• Final quality assurance for healthcare software, ensuring performance, reliability, and service level compliance. Key achievements included:
• QA Leadership: Spearheaded infrastructure architecture for non-functional requirements submission and solution design, ensuring robust and stable clinical systems.
• Certification Testing: Conducted certification testing on third-party hardware and software for support and resale, developing reference architectures for customer deployment.
• Customer Support: Provided top-tier customer support for escalated issues, including on-site visits to troubleshoot and resolve performance problems, leading to comprehensive data center assessments.
• Data Center Relocation: Managed the successful relocation of the test lab data center from Mountain Lakes, NJ, to Malvern, PA, over a single weekend, ensuring zero data loss and complete environment recovery.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Managed 50+ IT Professionals consisting of Data Center Operators, Data Center Supervisors, IT Support Supervisors, IT Support Technicians, and Network/System Administrators.
• Created IT department out of the need from company growth. Developed IT Polices, Procedures, Prioritization and Quality Assurance. Reviewed and re-assigned staff according to need and ability.

• Design, development and ongoing enhancement of web application which interfaced with legacy healthcare billing system to provide; on-line editing of medical claims, extensive reporting for healthcare billing, real-time.
• Led the design and development of healthcare document imaging system with a web-enabled interface for historical image search and retrieval. Utilized for lockbox imaging of remittance and the driving reason behind the.