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Cristian Alvarado

Summary

Detail-oriented with experience in optimizing cloud costs and producing actionable insights across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. Proven ability to communicate financial trends to technical and executive teams through dashboards and reporting tools. Passionate about continuous learning and contributing to high-performing teams.

Overview

4
4
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Cloud FinOps Analyst

Pearson
04.2022 - 05.2025
  • Managed two lines of business, covering over 300 accounts, and $10 million in annual spend.
  • Evaluated internal cloud usage to reduce overall spending through rightsizing accounts, integrating with engineering and finance teams, and designing visualizations to communicate with executives and teams.
  • Communicated the team's costs through Excel spreadsheets, Tableau, Cloudability dashboards, and Cloud Console deep dives for regularly scheduled spend reviews to highlight recent trends.
  • Implement standards of practice to uphold a consistent FinOps response to forecasting, budgets, and anomaly alerts, building trust across all levels of the company.

ICON Intern

ICON
El Paso, TX
06.2021 - 08.2021
  • Assisted in managing warranty calls and procedures for closed homes.
  • Provided analytical data projecting future sales, while analyzing current growth and seasonal patterns.
  • conducted an analysis of the types of warranty calls that were received, and provided comparative data from previous years.

Education

BBA - Finance

Our Lady of The Lake University
San Antonio, TX
12-2021

Skills

  • Data visualization
  • Cloud financial management
  • Financial analysis
  • Budget forecasting and reporting
  • AWS, GCP, and Azure cost analysis and optimization
  • Visual communication and professionalism

Certification

  • FOCP: FinOps Certified Practitioner
  • Azure Fundamentals Course
  • From 0 to 1: SQL and Relational Databases - Heavy Lifting course

Timeline

Cloud FinOps Analyst

Pearson
04.2022 - 05.2025

ICON Intern

ICON
06.2021 - 08.2021

BBA - Finance

Our Lady of The Lake University

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