No. 001 · Catalogue entry
Cloud FinOps Enablement
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Moves
01 · Found the Practice
Founding-team member defining the operating model and ways of working, later replicated across member firms.
02 · Cut the Waste
Drove commitment-lever purchasing (Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, CUDs) and waste and consumption reviews across client estates.
03 · Automate the Chargeback
Replaced spreadsheet-based chargeback with semi-automated CloudHealth dashboards, and designed the tagging taxonomy and allocation logic behind showback, tagging-compliance, spend-variance, unused-cost and rightsizing reporting.
04 · Speak Three Languages
The same billing data had to answer different questions for leadership, finance and engineering, so one combined report satisfied nobody and it became three views of the same data, each cut to the decision that group was making.
Outcome
$5M+/yr in cloud savings opportunities identified, $300K+/yr realised in recurring commitment savings, and a contribution to $1M+/yr in savings at a single Fortune 500 client, across a $20M/yr book of 150+ clients and 500+ cloud accounts run by a 5-member team, with 2 Outstanding Performance and 3 Spot awards along the way.
See on resume ↗Role & scope
Founding member of the FinOps practice, leading a 5-member team; personally owned the billing cycle, chargeback and allocation logic, forecasting and the client-facing waste and consumption reviews. Held the AWS and GCP vendor relationship and produced the pass-back analysis for leadership commercial reviews; did not negotiate contracts.