Expertise & Capabilities

Skills

The capabilities I'm trusted with — spanning data platforms, security, cost governance, and executive program leadership.

Technical Expertise, Program Management, Leadership

Technical Expertise

  • AWS ecosystem (S3, EC2, Lake Formation, Glue, Athena, etc.)
  • Data platforms (Trino, Iceberg, distributed systems)
  • Infrastructure automation and scaling

Program Management

  • FinOps and cloud cost optimization
  • Infrastructure governance frameworks
  • Strategic roadmap planning
  • Cross-organizational execution

Leadership

  • Executive stakeholder alignment
  • Technical decision facilitation
  • Team mentorship and development

Signature Strengths

Practical strengths built through delivery — focused on outcomes, tradeoffs, and mechanisms that scale.

Delivered and operated platforms supporting PB-scale data, multi-million-dollar budgets, and executive decision-making.

FinOps & Cost Governance

Showback and chargeback models, cost attribution across shared platforms, forecasting, and treating cost as a first-class design constraint.

Large-Scale Data Platforms

Data lakes, telemetry pipelines, retention policy design, lifecycle automation, and query platform optimization.

Security & Risk Programs

Insider risk telemetry, detection and response workflows, governance controls, and security program execution.

Cross-Org Program Leadership

Alignment across product, engineering, finance, and ops — especially when ownership, funding, or priorities are unclear.

Executive Communication

Decision-ready narratives for senior leaders: crisp options, tradeoffs, and clear asks tied to measurable outcomes.

Operational Excellence

Metrics, reviews, alerting, and mechanisms that drive predictable delivery and measurable quality improvements.

Capability Areas

A structured view of domains where I can step in as an owner and drive delivery.

Platform & Data Systems

  • Data lakes and telemetry platforms
  • Retention, lifecycle, and storage optimization
  • Query platforms and cost-aware access patterns
  • Metadata, catalogs, and governance controls

FinOps & Cost Management

  • Cost modeling, forecasting, and variance analysis
  • Showback / chargeback mechanisms
  • Business case framing and ROI narratives
  • Budget governance and operating cadences

Program & Stakeholder Leadership

  • Cross-org planning and execution
  • Dependency, risk, and escalation management
  • Prioritization and tradeoff facilitation
  • Executive reviews and narrative reporting

Security, Compliance & Governance

  • Risk programs and control mechanisms
  • Data access governance and policy design
  • Audit readiness and control automation
  • Incident response coordination and learnings

Certifications

Industry-recognized certifications supporting program leadership and security domains.

PMP

Project Management Professional

Project Management Institute (PMI)

CSM

Certified ScrumMaster

Scrum Alliance

ITIL

ITIL Foundation

AXELOS

AWS CCP

AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02)

Amazon Web Services

Operating Models

Mechanism-driven execution (WBR/MBR, ops reviews, decision logs)Ownership models (RACI, single-threaded ownership, escalation paths)SLO/SLA operating model (availability, latency, cost-per-unit)FinOps lifecycle (showback → forecast → controls → optimization)Risk management (threat modeling, controls, audit readiness)Incident mechanisms (on-call, SEV cadence, postmortems, prevention)Program planning (roadmaps, dependency management, critical path)Metrics & instrumentation (leading indicators, KPIs, guardrails)

Tools & Platforms

Data & Query Platforms

S3AthenaTrino/PrestoGlue Data CatalogLake Formation

Governance & Cost Controls

Showback / chargebackForecasting & variance reviewsUnit economics (cost per TB scanned / query minute)Retention policy modelingLifecycle automationBudget guardrails & approval paths

Observability & Operations

CloudWatchDatadogGrafanaSplunkAlerting / on-call mechanisms

Program Delivery

JiraConfluenceExecutive narratives (WBR/MBR)RoadmapsDecision logs

Engineering Workflow

GitHubCI/CDDockerInfrastructure as Code (Terraform)

Analytics & Reporting

SQLTableauQuickSightDashboards & automated reporting

Leadership

How I operate when the problem is ambiguous, cross-org, and high stakes.

Alignment & Influence

Bring teams together around shared goals, clear ownership, and decision-ready plans.

Data-Driven Tradeoffs

Use engineering-owned data to frame cost, risk, and performance tradeoffs early in design.

Executive Readouts

Crisp narratives and artifacts that help leaders make fast, confident decisions.

Mechanisms & Cadence

Operating rhythms that create predictable delivery and fast feedback loops.

Risk Management

Triage, escalation, and mitigation plans that reduce surprises and protect outcomes.

Partners & Vendors

Structured evaluation, contract clarity, and ongoing performance management.