In 2002 he won the Great Lakes Silver Cup Series in the Factory I class in a Mercruiser HP 500 powered Warlock. Buffomante won the title again in 2003 and 2004. Buffomante returned to auto racing in 2005 in the amateur based Factory Five Challenge sanctioned by NASA. He won three NASA National Championship in a row, two in the Factory Five Challenge, one in the Touring 2 class. The years after he ran in the Grand-Am sanctioned Ford Mustang Challenge. He finished fourth in the inaugural season standings. Buffomante won races in the series in 2009 and 2010 before continuing in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge in 2011 and 2012. In his Ford Mustang his best result was a seventh place at Lime Rock Park. In 2013 Buffomante joined the revived Trans-Am Series in the TA2 class. In 2013 he only competed at Mosport Park scoring a triple crown, winning the race from pole position and scoring the fastest lap. After another partial Trans-Am, and partial Pirelli World Challenge season in 2014, Buffomante joined Trans-Am full time for 2015. He scored two podium finished in the last three races of the season finished eighth in the season standings. He won the 2016 TA2 championship. Buffomante is an alumnus of the University of Notre Dame where he studied Management and Computer Science. After graduating in 1994 the New Yorker joined Arthur Andersen for two years. In 1996 Buffomante joined Sears Roebuck in the IT Audit and IT Security divisions. Since 2004 Buffomante is employed by KPMG. In May 1998 Buffomante was engaged to Nita Malkani, getting married in February 1999.