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I am a principal manager with deep expertise leading cloud financial operations, data analytics, cost optimization, financial modeling, strategic pricing, and competitive intelligence in the enterprise technology industry, focused on Cloud Computing technology and SaaS business models. Having graduated with highest honors in Economics, I thoroughly enjoy analytical questions, and continually build new skills and learn new methodologies that solve business challenges. In my current role with Couchbase, I am primarily responsible for driving gross margin optimization and financial analytics for our Capella DBaaS offering. Notable successes include:- Implemented ‘$ / Credit’ Unit Economic metrics for executive, finance & product teams to track trends in Capella COGS performance - Implemented centralized decision making process for AWS SP, Azure RI & GCP CUD purchasing and obtained IAM permissions to directly transact with the vendors- Led evaluation, implementation & ongoing administration of Cloudability, utilizing Business Mappings API feature via Postman to chargeback 100% of cloud costs and enable end users to manage spend with individualized views, dashboards & reports- Optimized IaaS OpEx monthly usage by 40%+ through ongoing orphaned infrastructure analysis, JIRA ticket creation and cross-functional partnership with engineering, IT, product, finance and management teams to drive remediations- Development of TCO, price & margin model for sales, commercial strategy and management teams to accurately estimate the cost of delivering new Capella workloads from global AWS, Azure, and GCP regions- Triangulate margin analysis, competitive intelligence and customer TCO to recommend pricing for new Capella features - Business manager for implementing Capella usage-based billing in Metronome, including Plan/Product/Billable Metric creation and cross-functional partnership to enable end-to-end revenue realization from usage event to invoicing- Created Power BI dashboard that enable sales engineering and management teams to track detailed Capella usage via data sourced from SalesForce and Couchbase Analytics - Certified FinOps Practitioner and active FinOps Community member that drives community best practices around resource tagging, usage optimization and communication strategies into own business priorities

Listed skills include Data Analysis, Microsoft Excel, Spss, Market Research, and 18 others.