Jean Latiere

- Implement FinOps operating model (tagging & cost allocation, showback/chargeback, budget cadence) and commitment strategy (SPs/RIs) to cut waste and align forecasts, budgets, and actuals across the business. - Stand up rapid optimization engagements for immediate savings; establish automation for sustainable benefits.

Contributor to the FinOps Foundation’s Sustainability and FinOps for AI Working Groups, bridging financial accountability with environmental impact and the new economics of AI workloads.

- Cloud Budget Governance: Streamlined budgeting and forecasting processes; established governance frameworks and led FinOps Steering Committees. Orchestrated bottom-up budget planning with 90%+ participation across 10 Digital Units, achieving <5% variance on consolidated budgets. - Cloud FinOps Optimisation: Delivered €3.4M in savings (71% above target) through optimisation initiatives across AWS, Azure, and GCP—covering storage, compute, and reservations. Drove cost efficiency through hands-on collaboration with application teams. - FinOps Enablement and Adoption: Led high-impact enablement webinars for Product Owners and Cloud Engineers (90%+ satisfaction). Mentored team members to accelerate FinOps adoption and improve cost accountability across domains. - Tooling & Automation: Contributed to FinOps tooling RFP and POC design; promoted ServiceNow integration and led automation initiatives for resource decommissioning, tagging remediation, and shared services cost allocation.

Advised on Cloud optimization that generated up to 70% savings for AWS customers. Developed AWS Flexible Compute services across EMEA customers to achieve highly scalable Cloud architectures that optimize their cost and performance, with the best mix of silicon options -Intel, AMD, Amazon Graviton – and purchase models -On-Demand, Spot, Savings Plans & Reserved Instances. Captured and shared feedback from our customers with AWS Product Management and Service teams to improve the features and pricing. As an AWS Senior Public Speaker, educated enterprise customers, sales, customer support organizations and partners on discount pricing models and Cloud Cost best practices during AWS Summits and partner events. Achievements ✔ Enlisted brand new lighthouse references and published 3 case studies including one on Machine Learning applied to Computer Vision for asset management and predictive maintenance at SNCF Réseau. ✔ Grew AWS Flexible Compute services utilization by 30% in 2020 and 57% in 2021. Grew Graviton utilization by >200% in ’21 and >100% in ’22, and published 3 case studies on Graviton with 3 lighthouse customer references: Ably, M6-Bedrock , Doctrine-Forsetti. ✔ Led business development activities in Life Science across EMEA with partners innovating in the porting and development of genomics analytics pipeline on the AWS cloud. With our lighthouse client Enterome and our partner Seqera, we spoke at the global AWS HPC Global Summit in 2020 on how to run Genomics pipelines on the AWS Cloud. ✔ Collected and formalized customer feedback into a Product Feature Request that led to the development and release of the ‘Fault Injection Simulator’ which AWS customers use to run Chaos Engineering scenarios and test the resiliency of their applications. ✔ Kick-started an AWS Sustainability community in France to showcase some of our customers' journeys in Sustainability with AWS, and led a cross-organization team to deliver a VIP roundtable for customer C-Levels.

As a Senior Value Consultant, my key responsibilities included: - Roadmap Consulting for Cloud Transformation Programs: collaborated with cross-functional teams to design and implement strategies for cloud transformation programs, ensuring that our clients' business and IT objectives were met. - Value Discovery Workshops: I facilitated value discovery workshops with business and IT stakeholders to identify areas of improvement, uncover hidden value, and align their cloud transformation journey with organisational goals. - Building Assets for TCO Optimization, Business Case Design, and ROI Calculation: I developed and refined methodologies to optimise Total Cost of Ownership (TCO), design robust business cases, and calculate Return on Investment (ROI) for cloud transformation initiatives.

> Raised funds and built a team to design, build and launch a fully encrypted, cloud-based solution for tracking of health vital signs: -- App with gamification ro incentivize usage and rewards based on goal-setting features -- A set of IoT connected medical devices: Blood Pressure Monitor, Activity Tracker, Weightscale -- Dashboards with data shared in real-time with physicians: a cloud-based solution compliant with European GDPR and French HAS rules. > Design of innovative commercial offers and Go-To-Market : -- Bundling the coaching delivered by pharmacists + the monthly rental of devices + the subscription to the app and platform. -- Packaged those offers with trade marketing material on display at pharmacists > Delivered the solution to on-boarded partners: physicians (generalists and cardiologists), pharmacists, reward providers (masseurs, nutritionists, yoga teachers), > Sourced and developed strategic relationships with financial sponsors for fundraising on deal-by-deal bases > Achievements: -- 30.000+ Facebook fans on 3 continents, requiring the translation of the solution from French to English, Spanish and Italian -- Secured 11.5k€ crowdfunding in only 3 weeks – above target initially set at 10k€; -- Funding of 150k€ from private investors -- Designed and delivered the solution in 6 months, 3 months ahead of schedule, with ratings of >4.3 on both app stores