Beyond Recognition: What Being an IBM Champion Really Means
Being an IBM Champion means more than a title. A personal reflection on practical experience, critical thinking and the responsibility to share knowledge.
Read article ↗Technical depth to challenge assumptions.
Business insight to transform what matters.
Reflections on the choices that shape applications, integrations and businesses. From architecture to operations, with room for difficult questions.
Being an IBM Champion means more than a title. A personal reflection on practical experience, critical thinking and the responsibility to share knowledge.
Read article ↗Cloud capabilities should serve business requirements. They should not become the starting point for deciding what an architecture needs.
Read article ↗A shared platform helps. Hybrid architecture also needs deliberate decisions about data, dependencies and operations.
Read article ↗Which business problem
should this technology
decision solve?

I'm Rafaella's dad, founder of M2M IT Solutions, and passionate about technology and the people who make transformation happen. I pursue my purpose by connecting knowledge, people and possibilities.
My journey spans international projects, enterprise architecture and multicultural team leadership. What gives it meaning is the opportunity to build together: to listen, share what I've learned and help others take their next step.
As an International Speaker, I bring these conversations to stages and communities beyond borders. Here, I share perspectives on technology, leadership and business with the same desire to learn, ask meaningful questions and make things happen.
Testimonials from clients and professionals who have been part of this journey. Technical expertise, leadership and commitment, as experienced by people who worked with me.
Marcello Meneghel completed Hybrid Cloud sales enablement course, won top honors and was named an IBM Hybrid Cloud Top Gun. IBM’s Top Gun class is an opportunity for us to identify top sales talent in IBM and IBM Business partners. I was impressed with Marcello’s solution sales skills, strategic product knowledge and his work ethic His scores were higher than any other student, including the IBM students. I look forward to working with him in the future.
Marcello hit the ground running at IBM and quickly became our team expert on a number of technologies. He is extremely bright and motivated and I thoroughly enjoyed working with him.
Eu conheço o Marcello há muitos anos como amigo e colega de profissão. Nunca havia trabalhado com ele até solicitar uma consultoria na empresa que eu trabalhava. Obrigatoriamente tive que chamar mais algumas empresas para fazer o orçamento e não posso dizer que ele me surpreendeu pois ele foi tudo o que eu imaginava! Apresentou soluções únicas, idéias valiosas e originais e entendeu perfeitamente a realidade do cliente. Fiquei muito orgulhosa de tê-lo indicado pois o Marcello é muito profissional, atencioso e tem um atendimento exepcional. Posso dizer que sou fã do trabalho do Marcello.
Marcello foi meu 1º cliente grande de datacenter, em 2002. Hands-on, com muito conteúdo, visão estratégica e focado nos resultados. Especialista em IBM. Recomendo o profissional e a pessoa.
I first met Marcello when he worked at an IBM Business Partner in Brasil. He soon opened his own company. Marcello is extremely smart and knows how to get things done. He's creative and he does creative things to get the deal progressed. I enjoyed working with Marcello and I recommend him as a highly competent professional!
Marcello is excellent instructor. He taught the course Process Modeling with IBM Business Process Manager Standard V8. It has a lot of experience in BPM.
Marcello is a great person and a great professional. He accumulates several courses and certificates of IT. He's always ready to help and auxiliary your students and friends, always with a lot of knowledge. I recommend this great professional!
Excelente profissional, atualizado, estuda profundamente as tecnologias que utiliza, versátil e muito organizado.
He is probably the best technician i've seen during my professional career, very professional, know how to work with team, knows how to teach. Knows how to work and lead in a critical situation. An excellent person and friend.
Marcello, is a high-Skill and have large experience in differents kinds of Architectures. I have worked with him, and he and is a good professional compromised with the customers and to work in complex projects.
Marcello has a fantastic knownledge on IBM products and very good capacity menthoring teams. During the projects that we run together we was very commited with results and reached the targets imposed.
Worked with Marcello on a Offshore Project between Brazil and USA. His technical knowledge is very huge and his performance was outstanding regarding web-java-portals-unix architecture linked with WebSphere Family
Marcello é o síndico. É daqueles caras que resolvem. Quando tem algum problema de TI, chama o Marcello.
I've managed Marcello in a huge account and providing strategic services to a large customer, he's a very good technical architect, knows very well several technologies, concepts and following the market trend as well, besides of that I'd add that he has strong soft skill that are not common to find in technical experts, a really asset to any company.
I recommend Marcello Meneghel highly, and especially recognize his ability to work with various technologies and tools for productivity. Marcello is an expert in BPM, IT processes and excellent coach in Java / J2EE, with several international certifications. I worked with him in TCS, outsourcing of Banco Real, and recognize that his strong personality is a positive point to work on strategic projects with focus on results.
Marcello has a deep knowledge of J2EE plataform. He worked for me as a consultant architect, defining a new Internet plataform for Banking applications. He is very consistent and reliable and made a very good job.
Marcello is a serious commited professional and he has excellent communication skills. He is fluent in English, A great professional, with dynamism and pretty creative. A professional that has all the necessary skills and knowledge, assuring that a better relationship with customers will be achieved!
I remember Marcello as the strong technical leader, who can operate an operation offshore successfully. It was the time, the client has offshore some of the web architecture, operations offshore. Marcello was the leader of the team. The transition was successful, partly due to the skills, innovation, thought leadership and the team leadership of Marcello.
During that time, I have experienced Marcello going beyond his call of duty to make things happen. He was there readily to jump and help any technical issues on hand.
Marcello is one of those guys who keep upgrading their skills constantly. Marcello has grown more professionally over the years.
I would strongly recommend Marcello for any high tech, critical engagements.
Marcello is a technical savvy with a strong business orientation mindset. While he was the IT Manager at DISOFT, he managed to quickly learn and understand Hummingbird Connectivity products features and functionalities. Due to this strong characteristic, Marcello managed to offer a premium first line technical support for Hummingbird Connectivity customers in Brazil. He was able, not only, to solve most of our customers' issues, but also to provide them with a business view of our solutions. I strongly recommend him for any similar position he might apply for in any respectable organisation.
Marcello is a very skilled professional, he knows how to handle a team, how to keep everyone motivated and is always open for help. Always focused on customer satisfaction, I’d say he is that kind of person that you always can count on.
I had the pleasure of working with Marcello on a high-profile IT infrastructure project at VW. As an IT architect, he brought strong Websphere knowledge to the team. His deep technical insights helped us cut through the legacy constraints and build a more robust architecture. Without his expertise, result-oriented mindset and collaborative approach, it would have been difficult to achieve the desired transformation. I would gladly recommend Marcello to any roles that emphasize web architecture design and planning.
Marcello is one of best professionals I've worked with. He's commited and focused on results. In addition, he has great knowledge on ITIL, CMMi, PMI.
As IT Architect, his knowledge is not restricted to technical aspects, but it includes people managing, coaching, negotiation with customers, pairs and partners.
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A journey combining deep IBM technology expertise, community contributions and International Speaker engagements on modernization.
IBM Community introduces Marcello as an IBM Champion and partner ecosystem participant in a session on application modernization.
View the IBM Community record ↗Panel participation on business transformation with WebSphere Liberty.
Explore the panel ↗COMMUNITY · OCTOBER 2025Practical insights shared with the WebSphere & Liberty CAB community.
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My GitHub brings together materials on modernization, integration and artificial intelligence. A place to share what I'm building and follow these initiatives as they evolve.
Enterprise messaging fundamentals, administration and operations. Check the repository for available modules and the status of each stage.
Explore the repository ↗INITIATIVE IN PROGRESSDirection and study topics for WebSphere to Liberty modernization. Labs and reference architectures are being developed.
Explore the repository ↗INITIATIVE IN PROGRESSAn initiative on AI-assisted modernization, with tracks covering RAG, MCP and agents. Labs are being prepared.
Explore the repository ↗Here, the perspective and the questions. At M2M IT Solutions, the path forward is built together with your team.
Explore M2M IT Solutions ↗Java, WebSphere and Liberty. Evolution guided by your operational context.
APIs, messaging and events as part of enterprise architecture.
Observability, automation and AI with human oversight and validation.
An architecture challenge, an exchange of perspectives, or an invitation to share knowledge?
Connect with me on LinkedIn ↗Talk to the M2M team ↗For projects and assessments, the M2M team can help define the next step.