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📚 Education
🐦 Johns Hopkins University
🧬 Master’s of Science in Bioinformatics
🐧 Youngstown State University
💹 Master’s of Business Administration - Finance
💭 Bachelor’s of Arts - Philosophy
👨💻 Work Experience
Cloud Economist**, CircleCI**
San Francisco, California (2023-Present)
- Cloud Financial Strategy & Optimization: Provided strategic guidance on $36M+ in annual cloud expenditures, advising on cost governance frameworks, financial controls, product pricing, and multi-cloud/data center investment strategies to optimize efficiency and increase margin.
- Cost Reduction Initiatives: Achieved a 4.5% reduction in cloud expenses within two months by eliminating waste, rightsizing instances, and leveraging savings plans.
- Compute Efficiency & Savings: Delivered $6.8M in savings, improving resource allocation and lowering cost per compute from $0.35 to $0.24.
- End User Pricing Strategy: Led cross-functional teams to develop data-driven pricing that increased margins at the product level by double digits while driving expansion and reducing engineering complexity.
- Capital Allocation & Commitments: Supported a multi-year AWS EDP negotiation, securing $1.5M in credits and favorable discount structures for EC2, S3, and Cloudfront to significantly optimize cloud cost-basis.
San Francisco, California (2024)