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Engaging in ongoing professional development; pursuing certifications and courses in Cloud Governance and FinOps, IT Strategy and Governance, Vendor Management, ITIL, and other areas of interest to enhance my capabilities.

• Management of overall scope, budget, resources, schedule, and governance processes for Global Technology Transformation project, with a primary focus on migrating to Azure Cloud. Supported WBA's strategies to digitize.
• Led global financial forecasting and resource allocation plans, partnering with various departments such as Finance, Accounting, Procurement, IT Planning & Analysis, PMO, and HR for program financial setup and.
• Developed and executed annual budgets for the Cloud organization, employing zbb, dbb, and 3YP methodologies.
• Enhanced cloud financial maturity focusing on cost optimization and Cloud efficiency.
• Drove visibility of cloud cost management across cross-functional leaders, presenting monthly and providing reporting, budgeting, and forecasting analyses of each of the pillars, including Cloud, Collab Tools, Data &.
• Managed the reconciliation process and purchase orders of cloud invoices and consulting services.

Deerfield, IL

• Drove implementation of Service Virtualization function focused on eliminating system dependencies, reducing costs, increasing quality and improving time to market.
• Delivered intelligent Software Virtualization solutions and series of continuous improvement projects.
• Led strategic SV solutioning for major IT projects/initiatives, established standards and guiding principles.
• Implemented various virtualization technologies (Service Virtualization, Device Virtualization, Database Virtualization, Java Virtualization, SAP Virtualization, Development of Custom Tools and Web utilities).

Deerfield, IL

• Strategic and technical Service Virtualization aspects, defining and executing overall strategy for SV:
• Architecting the Service Virtualization solution to meet the client's needs
• Engineering Enterprise SV framework that covers multiple systems and projects
• System needs and environment dependencies analysis
• Leveraging the HP Service Virtualization product and J2EE technologies

Deerfield, IL 60089

• Building and maturing Shared Services Performance Testing & Engineering CoE to manage demand, provide highest efficiency and productivity:
• Delivered scalable, systematic, quantitative approach to constructing applications/systems that meet performance objectives and non-functional requirements
• Evaluated non-functional characteristics of the system, identified performance gaps, lay out guidance/services for optimizing performance
• Established performance tuning guidelines to solve performance problems for applications and systems under support
• Measured, supported, and shared PE operational guiding principles across IT

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