Teams at Cisco

Lead gross margin planning, forecasting, reporting, and variance analysis with emphasis on cloud infrastructure costs. Manage and analyze AWS/Azure/GCP spending, build financial models and operational metrics for cloud consumption and product-level profitability, partner with Engineering/Product/Cloud Ops/Procurement, identify cost-optimization and process improvements, and present executive-ready recommendations to improve gross margin.

Designs, deploys, and operates enterprise observability platforms for logs, metrics, traces, and alerting. Maintains Splunk, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, Tempo, and OpenTelemetry systems; automates infrastructure with Terraform; develops dashboards and alerts; supports capacity planning, upgrades, disaster recovery, incident response, and on-call operations. Partners with engineering teams to improve reliability, monitoring standards, and production performance across cloud infrastructure.

Serve as a strategic finance partner for the IT cloud management business unit. Own budgeting, forecasting, long-range planning, financial reporting, expense management, accounting oversight, cloud cost optimization, liabilities, depreciation, and governance. Advise senior leaders through financial modeling and scenario analysis, improve processes and reporting, ensure policy compliance, and lead team development and cross-functional collaboration.