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United States

Indiana, United States

Instituted FinOps practices in the development/operation of customer-facing products. Duties included the creation and maintenance of cost models for individual products as well as administration and support of tools used

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• Managed the finance and procurement of services and hardware for the product delivery group with a $45M yearly budget. Duties included assisting technical personnel in purchase of correct tools, researching datacenter.
• Implemented critical supplier management process for 160 suppliers and $30M yearly spend
• Identified and reclaimed $125K of unclaimed credits from suppliers
• Found $40K annually in late fees thereby driving process change and averting service shutdowns
• Monitored $500K co-location and $125K circuit costs monthly for overage justification and disputes
• Tracked and initiated 50+ service/maintenance renewals on a yearly basis

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• Collaborated with architecture team to implement governance of cloud-based resources used within both production and development organizations. Focus was AWS cost reductions both in the short and long term through.
• Provided and enforced governance for AWS spend of $750K/month
• Initiated tagging policies which allowed chargeback modeling and ownership determination
• Developed plans that achieved $1M+ annual cloud cost savings using reserved instances, lower cost regions, and terminating unused resources
• Collaborated with CloudHealth Technologies to implement new functionality specific to critical use-cases
• Developed tools using Influx, Grafana, Wavefront, and AWS-cli allowing detailed views into usage/cost

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• Tracked capacity needs of datacenter and network inventory using BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization tool and proprietary tools. Outputs drove purchasing plans and allowed network managers to readjust renewal levels of.
• Implemented hot-standby configuration for BMC TrueSight Capacity Optimization tool
• Developed/Administered 50+ ETLs retrieving capacity related data from datacenter infrastructure.
• Extended BMC TrueSight to provide a detailed chargeback model ultimately driving customer pricing
• Developed a proprietary Jira->Workfront connector to synchronize project management data thereby saving $20K/year

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• Implemented a proprietary automated configuration management tool while using output to drive a round robin database (RRD) based monitoring solution (Remstats). Combined, the tools alerted and provided detailed context.
• Responsible for configuration management and monitoring of 1,000+ machines in five global datacenters.
• Refactored and enhanced network scanning software with UI control based on Perl scripts/modules, cgi templates running under Apache, and a MySQL persistent data store.
• Developed auto-deployment software which detected and deployed software updates to production systems saving 250 work hours per quarter
• Provided technical support on a 24/7 basis for production monitoring systems including issue escalation duties

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Accounting

Master Of Engineering - Meng, Engineering Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics Minor

Activities and Societies: Air Force ROTC, Men's Soccer

Bachelor Of Engineering - Be, Electrical And Electronics Engineering