Mike Boudreau

About Mike Boudreau

With a background in cloud solutions, architecture, and sales, I lead a team of FinOps Analysts providing value to customers through the delivery of Cost Optimization services. We educate customers about cloud economics, and enable companies to make data-driven decisions about their cloud spend by providing them with the actionable insight they need to align their costs with their business objectives.My passion for efficiency drives a relentless search to find customer-focused solutions that improve performance while reducing costs. To me, new technologies are exciting opportunities to explore how our customers can gain competitive advantages. Key Strengths• Cloud Cost Optimization • Cross-functional Team Leadership • Cloud Evangelism• Ability to influence and drive consensus • Proactively identify, analyze, and resolve problems• Lifelong learner • IT Management • Vendor Relationship Management • Requirements Analysis• Strategic Planning • Public Speaking • Team Building • Technical Presentations• Business Strategy • AWS Cost Explorer • AWS Trusted Advisor • CloudCheckr • CloudHealth• Microsoft Office • G-SuiteLeadership SuccessesCOST OPTIMIZATION – Analyzed, identified, and delivered savings opportunities resulting in reduction of millions of dollars in cloud operating costs- Reduced monthly AWS invoice of international toy manufacturer by over 35% and annual overall operating expenses by over $600k- Analyzed and executed $2M+ RI purchase for AdTech companyCOST OPTIMIZATION METHODOLOGY – Created, defined, and implemented scalable processes to efficiently and effectively deliver cost optimization services to rapidly growing customer base.TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS – Presented to multiple internal and external groups on cloud optimization strategies, techniques, and service delivery.

Experience

1. Foundation Member

   Finops Foundation

   Nov 2019 — Present

   https://finops.orgThe FinOps Foundation is a non-profit trade organization leading the way to bring together FinOps practitioners to cultivate cloud financial management best practices and standards to help the community members and their teams become better at cloud financial management.

Education

• Thomas Edison State University

  Computer Science

• University of North Texas

  Sport Psychology

• Midwestern State University

  BA, Psychology, Kinesiology

Skills

• Iaas
• Cloud Governance
• Customer Service
• Account Management
• Technical Documentation
• Scalability
• Technical Sales Consulting
• Enterprise Architecture
• Contract Negotiation
• Solution Architecture
• Aws Architecture
• System Migration
• Strategic Partnerships
• Application Performance Management
• New Business Development
• Amazon Web Services (Aws)
• Customer Oriented
• Web Application Security
• Application Architecture
• Paas
• Cloud Applications
• Development of Strategy
• Infrastructure
• Web Services
• System Architecture
• Disaster Recovery
• Web Application Design
• Process Improvement
• Sales
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Relationship Management
• Web Applications
• Cloud Security
• Reserved Instances
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Business Development
• Cost Optimization
• Lead Generation
• Social Networking