About
Accomplished Engineering Leader with over 20 years of experience driving strategic cloud transformation, FinOps, and service delivery initiatives, including managing a $100M annual budget. Expertly optimized public and private cloud infrastructures, achieving over $10M in cost savings and reducing time-to-market by 35% through automation and FinOps governance. Proven leader in product management, platform innovation, and high-velocity delivery, adept at building scalable, secure, and resilient cloud platforms aligned with strategic business goals.
Work
American Airlines
|Engineering Leader (Cloud Migration & FinOps Strategy)
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Summary
Led the FinOps and Product Management team, overseeing 15 distinct products and managing a $100M annual budget across multi-cloud environments (Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud).
Highlights
Managed first-ever centralized OS for 5,000+ VMs across multiple data centers, ensuring unified and efficient cloud operations.
Reduced cloud migration time by 40% by implementing automated, self-service deployment pipelines, accelerating enterprise-wide cloud adoption.
Optimized cloud onboarding, decreasing time-to-market by 35% through the design and implementation of standardized Azure Landing Zones and robust governance frameworks.
Achieved over $10M in annual cloud cost savings by implementing advanced FinOps strategies and AI-driven workload optimizations, including right-sizing and spend transparency.
Led a 20+ member team of Product Managers, Architects, and Engineers, fostering a culture of data-driven decision-making and OKR-based cloud innovation.
IBM
|Head of Service Delivery (Cloud Transformation)
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Summary
Directed high-quality, scalable IT infrastructure and support services for American Airlines Flight Operations, leading a 20+ member managed services team generating $15M in annual recurring revenue.
Highlights
Recruited, trained, and mentored a 20+ member technical team, overseeing network/server infrastructure, databases, and enterprise applications.
Improved system stability and performance by implementing proactive monitoring and automated remediation tools.
Maintained a 99.99% uptime SLA through rigorous risk management, disaster recovery, and business continuity planning, ensuring critical system availability.
Successfully launched new applications and systems, sustaining a 40% operating margin through strategic process optimization.
Reduced year-over-year outages and incidents through automation, comprehensive documentation, root cause analysis, and support team enablement.
Priceline
|Manager
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Summary
Managed the architecture, design, and implementation of scalable Middleware infrastructure, ensuring high performance and critical application uptime.
Highlights
Architected, designed, and implemented a highly scalable Middleware infrastructure, enhancing system performance and reliability.
Administered and supported critical application uptime and code promotion processes in a complex production environment.
Education
University of Dallas
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MBA
Global Business
Annamalai University
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BS
Engineering
Certificates
FinOps Certified Practitioner
Issued By
FinOps Foundation
Microsoft Azure Certified
Issued By
Microsoft
Wharton Operations Management
Issued By
Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Skills
Cloud Technologies
Azure, AWS, IBM Cloud, Multi-cloud Environment.
Cloud Management & FinOps
Cloud Migration & Adoption, FinOps, Cloud Governance, Cloud Security, Cloud Cost Optimization, FinOps Governance Model, Azure Landing Zones, Workload Optimization, Right-sizing, Spend Transparency, Chargeback Processes, Forecasting Accuracy.
Product & Program Management
Product Management, Product Strategy, Product Roadmap Development, Product Taxonomy, Strategic Roadmaps, OKRs (Objectives and Key Results), Data-Driven Experiments, Innovation Hub Management, Program Management.
Methodologies & Operations
Agile/DevOps Leadership, Service Delivery, Automation, Self-service Deployment, Release Management, Continuous Improvement, Risk Management, Disaster Recovery, Business Continuity Planning, Process Optimization, Root Cause Analysis, Support Team Enablement, Middleware Infrastructure, Application Uptime, Code Promotion.
Leadership & Strategy
Executive Stakeholder Engagement, Team Development, Team Leadership (20+ members), Mentoring, Recruitment, Budget Management ($100M), Financial Planning, Forecasting, Strategic Planning, Moonshot Thinking.
Tools & Platforms
Intel Granulate, Lucidity, Edge Delta, Cloud Fix, VM Management.