Description

I am currently specializing in Azure Cost Killing & Cloud FinOps.

My certifications to date:

✔️ 2024: FinOps Certified FOCUS Analyst (new certification launched in 2024)

✔️ 2024: Microsoft AI Fundamentals (IA-900)

✔️ 2024: Q2: FinOps Introduction to FOCUS

✔️ 2024: Q2 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst (PL-300 renewal)

✔️ 2023: Q4: Renewal FinOps Practitioner certification for 2 years

✔️ 2023: Q4: FinOps Personas Leader

✔️ 2023: Q2: PL-300 Microsoft Power BI Data Analyst

✔️ 2023: Q1: Renewal AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

✔️ 2022: Q4: DP-900 Microsoft Azure Data Fundamentals

✔️ 2022: Q1: AZ-104 Microsoft Azure Administrator

✔️ 2020: Q2: FinOps Practitioner

✔️ 2019: Q4: AZ-900 Microsoft Azure Fundamentals

⏳ 🗓️ 202x: Microsoft Power Platform - Notions fondamentales (PL900)

⏳ 🗓️ 202x: FinOps Professional

⏳ 🗓️ 202x: Google Associate Cloud Engineer

⏳ 🗓️ 202x: AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

I speak French (native), English & German

7 years in Munich, Germany

3 years in the UK, multiple business trips in the US of A (San Francisco, Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, New York)

I am a freelancer.

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Native or bilingual
German
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Paris (up to 20km), Nantes (up to 20km)

BNP ARVAL,
FinOps practitioner
TRANSPORTATION
March 2025 - Today (1 year and 4 months)
Rueil-Malmaison, France
• AWS & IBM Cloud: cost-optimization, reservations and savings plan monitoring
• IBM Public Cloud (dMZR) working on a move to cloud project (209 apps by 2030)
• Developing a PowerBI dashboard for dMZR, AWS, IBM Public cloud and SAAS based on FOCUS™
• Embedded in the ARVAL SAM team & member of the global BNP FinOps team
• Other tools include: Azure, JIRA, Salesforce, ServiceNow & Microsoft Fabric
FinOps Microsoft Power BI Cloud computing
L'Oréal
FinOps practionner
CONSULTING AND AUDITS
July 2023 - Today (2 years and 11 months)
Levallois-Perret, France
• I work for L’Oréal IT Europe: reservations monitoring, developing KPIs, PowerBI dashboards, follow cost-optimization projects. L’Oréal switched from Enterprise Agreement to Microsoft Customer Agreement in May 2023.
• Investigate, propose and follow-up cost killing actions
• Member of the FinOps Champions team operating at L’Oréal Group level
• Participating in the panel to evaluate, test and implement GreenFinOps tooling for l’Oréal (Apptio, Clouhealth, Clycloid, Flexera and Teevity evaluated)
• GreenOps: starting in Jan 2024: PoC with Greenly (greenly.earth) to monitor cloud carbon footprint of IT Europe
L'Oréal,
FinOps practitioner
June 2023 - July 2024 (1 year and 1 month)
• Reservations monitoring, developing KPIs, PowerBI dashboards, follow cost optimization projects. L'Oréal switched from Enterprise Agreement to Microsoft Customer Agreement in May 2023.
• Investigate, propose and follow-up cost killing actions on Azure, AWS & GCP
• Participating in the panel to evaluate, test and implement GreenFinOps tooling for L'Oréal (Apptio, Clouhealth, Clycloid, Flexera, Teevity and Greenly evaluated)

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2018
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Master of Science
Teesside University
MSc, Software Engineering