Samuel D. Email & Phone Number

United States

Arlington, Texas, United States

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Conducted detailed cost analyses, finding underutilized and overprovisioned resources, and recommending rightsizing and reserved instance strategies to optimize spending using FinOps principles and getting them through.
• Designed and maintained financial and usage reports to deliver timely insights to cloud spend as well as dashboards in Power BI, AWS Quicksight with CUDOS to enable show-back, charge back and shared cost allocation.
• Leveraged all cloud services purchase models such as on-demand for unpredictable workloads, savings plans and reserved instances for critical and predictable workloads depending on application needs, and spot instances.
• Implemented cost monitoring to measure savings plan and RI coverage to ensure instances or services purchased through savings plan achieved close to a hundred percent utilization.
• Leveraged automation scripts to power off unused resources to minimize cost, enforce tagging policies, and remediate non-compliant resources.
• Conducted 10+ training workshops for client IT teams (Developers, Operations) and Finance team to establish a CCoE that the FinOps strategies like tagging, setting up organizational units for cost allocation and.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

• Conducted a comprehensive analysis of the organization's cloud environment, finding cost optimization strategies that successfully reduced Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) by 15%.
• Designed and implemented an automated deployment pipeline using DevOps tools like Jenkins and Ansible, resulting in a 40% increase in deployment frequency and a 20% reduction in deployment errors.
• Led a team in the architectural design and deployment of a highly available and fault-tolerant cloud infrastructure for a Fortune 500 client, achieving 99.99% uptime and exceeding SLA requirements.
• Developed custom monitoring and alerting solutions using AWS CloudWatch and Elasticsearch, enabling initiative-taking monitoring of cloud resources and reducing mean time to resolution (MTTR) by 60%.
• Leveraged SIEM tools such as Splunk to assess network traffic and vulnerabilities.
• Played a pivotal role in driving the adoption of containerization and microservices architecture, using Docker and Kubernetes to modernize legacy applications, improve scalability, and accelerate time to market for new.

Chicago, Illinois

• Managed the architecture design and migration of ten suites of legacy retail banking applications to AWS cloud.
• Implemented a comprehensive DevSecOps framework, enhancing the bank's security posture and achieving compliance with industry regulations such as PCI DSS and GDPR.
• Collaborated with business stakeholders to define and prioritize cloud migration strategies, resulting in the successful modernization of legacy banking applications and systems.
• Architected and deployed a highly resilient infrastructure with fault-tolerant mechanisms, guaranteeing 99.99% uptime for essential banking services.
• Received accolades from senior leadership for exemplary performance and significant contributions to the successful implementation of strategic technology initiatives.
• Automated patch deployment and configuration file management using CI/CD pipelines like Ansible, Bitbucket, and Git, leading to a 25% reduction in time to market and application downtime.

Addison Texas

• Implemented and configured a three-tiered e-statement application, easing communication between on-prem and AWS cloud. Conducted tailored training sessions for senior-level management and end-users.
• Configure and customize e-statement platforms to meet client specifications, including layout design, content formatting, and data integration.
• Successfully coordinated with third-party vendors and internal departments to integrate innovative technologies, such as blockchain for secure document verification, into the e-statement platform.
• Contributed to process optimization initiatives, leading to a 25% reduction in manual tasks through the automation of repetitive processes using Ansible and Terraform.
• Designed and developed client landing pages using HTML and CSS, resulting in a 30% increase in user engagement and a 25% decrease in bounce rates.
• Managed API connections and EDI feeds, resulting in a 40% reduction in data transfer errors and a 50% decrease in processing time, enabling real-time data exchange, and enhancing operational efficiency.* Advised.

Lawton, Oklahoma Area