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 the crawl, walk and run phases of their FinOps journey. • 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 methods.• 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 for non-critical fault tolerant workloads. • 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 reporting, SKU policies, purchase models, shared cost allocation to maximize cloud investment and increase ROI by 20%• Led 10+ cloud migration projects, easing the transition of clients' on-premises infrastructure to cloud environments. • Enhanced the performance and scalability of client applications by 30% through the implementation of auto-scaling and load balancing techniques on cloud platforms like AWS and Azure.• Led the optimization of a multinational retail corporation's AWS infrastructure, using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and automation tools to achieve a 40% improvement in resource use and a 25% reduction in deployment time.

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 features.

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.• Provided advanced TRIAGE and technical engineering support, consistently meeting SLAs within a global support team, achieving a 99.9% SLA compliance rate.• Developed a comprehensive Business Continuity Framework, resulting in reduced Recovery Point Objective (RPO) and Recovery Time Objective (RTO), enhancing the bank's resilience to disruptions

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 clients on implementing cost optimization strategies in cloud environments, resulting in significant cost reductions averaging 30% while maintaining or enhancing performance.* Conducted thorough assessments of clients' cloud usage and spending patterns, identifying areas of inefficiency and recommending actionable solutions to optimize costs.* Developed customized FinOps frameworks tailored to clients' business objectives and cloud infrastructure, ensuring alignment with budgetary constraints and operational requirements.* Collaborated closely with clients' finance, IT, and procurement teams to establish governance policies, budget controls, and accountability mechanisms for cloud spending.* Led workshops and training sessions to educate clients' teams on FinOps principles, cloud cost management best practices, and the use of cost optimization tools and techniques.

Lawton, Oklahoma Area