Ryan Buono

About Ryan Buono

Ryan Buono helps individuals and organizations grow through personal breakthroughs and practical systems that align purpose, mindset, and resources to build lasting momentum. His interests and experience include lean product development and marketing automation, along with hands-on design and implementation of recruiting strategies and workflows. This includes building a full enterprise-level omnichannel CRM and applicant tracking system to support sophisticated data collection, enrichment, outreach, and pipeline management.Open to consulting or full-time recruiting engagements helping organizations recruit high-impact senior professionals in AI, data, product, and technical domains across product and research teams.

Experience

1. Founder Chief Product & Technology Officer Recruiting Advisor

   Empower Associates

   Dec 2019 — Present · San Diego, CA, US

   Empower Associates is a team of independent recruiters who represent one brand that truly empowers their ability to expand their candidate and client networks, giving our Associates the ability to far outpace their personal revenue and gross margin growth targets faster than any other platform currently available in today’s competitive marketplace.My role was to make that promise real in day-to-day execution. I guided Associates on practical search and workflow strategies that consistently improved their ability to find the right candidates and client targets faster. In many cases, these changes produced 2-3x more search results while also increasing relevance, which meant more meaningful conversations with the right people.In parallel, I led the development of a fully bespoke, vertically integrated, omnichannel CRM and ATS platform. The system supported rapid Associate onboarding and scalable recruiting operations through unified sourcing, enrichment, outreach, communication tracking, workflow automation, and pipeline management. As CPTO and engineering manager, I owned product direction, vendor selection, delivery execution, and hands-on QA and UAT. While I did not write production code, I was closely involved in architectural decisions, quality standards, and production readiness.

Education

• W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University

  B.S., Business Management

  2003 — 2005

• AZ School of Real Estate & Business

  Real Estate License

  2008 — 2008

Skills

• Internet Recruiting
• Business Development
• Network Engineering
• Web Applications
• Sourcing
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Virtualization
• Recruiting
• Recruitment Advertising
• Project Management
• Network Administration
• Software Development
• Vendor Management
• Temporary Placement
• Executive Search
• Staff Augmentation
• Contract Negotiation
• Business Analysis
• New Business Development
• Crm
• Staffing Services
• Human Resources
• Information Technology
• Networking
• IT Recruitment
• Screening Resumes
• Talent Acquisition
• Sales
• System Administration
• Account Management
• Negotiation
• Strategy
• Marketing
• Permanent Placement
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Cold Calling
• Technical Recruiting
• Consulting
• Leadership
• Systems Engineering