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Episode 18 Bonus Episode - Building FinOps Teams & Starting FinOps Careers

In a special episode - Joe & Stacy discuss traditional and nontraditional paths to a FinOps career and how to identify good candidates for a FinOps team.

Share this quick episode with someone looking to get into FinOps or someone you think SHOULD get into FinOps!

• FinOps Jobs - All the cloud financial management jobs in one place

Episode 17 Lindbergh Matillano - Intro to Automated Governance

Lindbergh Matillano, Director of the Cost Optimization team at Avalara, shares his experience and perspective towards FinOps and FinOps governance. How he leverages his heritage and his background in finance. Lindbergh also shares how to approach automating cloud governance.

• Lindbergh Matillano | LinkedIn

Episode 16 Year End Review 2022

Ashley Hromatko joins Stacy and Joe as they review some of their favorite FinOps moments of 2022. Plus - insights into what sort of content we are looking for at FinOps X 2023!

Thank YOU (yes - you the person reading this right now) for helping make this community great and for making it a special year. Happy New Year!

• State of FinOps 2023 Survey
• Call for Proposals FInOps X 2023
• FinOps X - June 27-30, 2023 San Diego, California

Episode 15 Zach Stitham - Driving FinOps Culture Through KPIs

Zach Stitham, VP - Cloud Business Management Office at Fidelity, talks with Ashley Hromatko on FinOps KPIs. How do you chose them? How do you mature them? How do you drive the right behaviors and culture by leveraging them? Stay on target for your goals by listening to this episode!

• FinOps X '22 Breakout: Fidelity's FinOps KPI Journey - Zachary Stitham & Noel Crowley (Fidelity) - YouTube
• Zachary Stitham | LinkedIn

Episode 14 Jérémy Nancel & John Renne - Optimizations Ideal vs Reality

Rightsizing an under-utilized resource is an easy way to save on cloud costs, right? Or is it? In a conversation taken from the FinOps Foundation Slack channels, Jérémy Nancel & John Renne debate the pros and cons of reducing cloud spend by rightsizing resources vs incurring tech debt via code drift.

• Jérémy NANCEL | LinkedIn
• John Renne | LinkedIn
• Join the FinOps Foundation Community Today

Episode 13 FinOops - Lessons Learned the Hard Way

We all make mistakes. Some mistakes are just more expensive than others. In this episode, listen and learn from the experiences of others in the FinOps community who bravely share their experiences with runaway bills, outages and disaster recover tests gone wrong.

• Join the FinOps Foundation Community Today
• Courtney Bormann | LinkedIn
• Eric Mulartrick, MBA | LinkedIn
• Michael Barba | LinkedIn
• Erik Norman | LinkedIn

Episode 12 Alison McIntyre - FinOps Knowledge & Embracing Fear

Alison McIntyre, Cloud FinOps Lead at Lloyds Banking Group, discusses what it feels like to start the FinOps Certified Professional course, cloud native application migrations and the impact of risk and regulations. There is a moment for everyone in this episode!

• FinOps Certified Professional Course Information
• Alison McIntyre | LinkedIn

Episode 11 Tony Johnson - The One About Unit Economics

Tony Johnson, fresh from presenting on Unit Economics at FinOps X, talks with Joe about how to start and mature using unit economics to manage your cloud environment.

• August FinOps Summit - Unit Economics Working Group Update
• Introduction to Cloud Unit Economics
• Anthony "TJ" Johnson | LinkedIn

Episode 10 Ursula LaVeck & Julia Harvey - What Comes After FinOps Adoption

Joe visits with some of his old friends and colleagues, Ursula LaVeck and Julia Harvey, to learn how they continued maturing their operations after implementing FinOps at their organizations.

• Julia Harvey | LinkedIn
• Ursula LaVeck, MBA | LinkedIn
• Join the FinOps Foundation Community Today
• FinOps Foundation - YouTube

Episode 9 FinOps X 2022 | Austin, TX

The first annual FinOps X conference was held in Austin, TX in June. Joe & Stacy wrap it up and talk about the Ballroom B Wolfpack and the rest of our amazing community that showed up and embraced being together at the first FinOps conference. Includes interviews with Eli Mansoor, Dieter Matzion, Aaron Edell, Mike Eisenstien, Alee Whitman, Dann Berg, Michelle Dupuis and many more!

• Mastering AWS Cost Optimization: Real-world technical and operational cost-saving best practices
• FinOps Foundation - FinOps X recordings