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FinOps SME - Cloud and AI resource and financial optimization
About Me
Jurisdiction
Notable Employer
- Assistant Vice President - Cloud FinOps Team Lead at Corebridge Financial Group
- Assistant Vice President, Technical Program Manager - Cloud Infrastructure at American International Group
Experience
Fractional FinOps SME: Optimization for cloud hosted, serverless and AI models (Amazon Bedrock, Anthropic) Billing& Cost Management tools, Budget Alerts and Anomaly Detection Detail cost and usage reporting on the service, resource and operation level
Analyzed Cloud spend and utilization data to deliver an annual savings of $12m: ▪ Established FinOps data compilation and reporting team using Managed Service Providers resources ▪ Led daily SCRUM’s to monitor contribution from each team member relative to FinOps deliverables ▪ Proposed and implemented AWS Cloud requests through a Service Now approval process and mandatory tagging ▪ Determine AWS resource cost savings (CloudWatch, Cost Explorer, CUR), publish to promote maximum participation ▪ Maximize rate optimization using Gartner directives on strategic use of AWS and MS Azure PPA and discounts ▪ Compiled and presented monthly actuals, forecast, variance with call-outs to C-Suite Operations Review
Improved operational performance enabling double workload and securing significant cost savings: ▪ Orchestrated infrastructure Cloud Migrations (AWS) for DevOps and Containers (ECS, Kubernetes) using Jira. ▪ Initiated Jira Service Desk, daily SCRUMs, Kanban boards, centralized document storage, ensuring flawless SLA delivery ▪ Pioneered Cloud Domain Peer review sessions collaborating with multiple teams to attain Architectural approval
Certification
Linux Foundation FinOps Certified Practitioner (Nov 2025)
Linux Foundation
2025
Credential ID: a66518aa-c5e1-4ba2-be25-93c3dd1fa7b0