DISCIPLINE
Technology spending tells a story about how decisions are actually made.
Most meaningful commitments don’t happen at the invoice. They happen upstream, in architecture choices, vendor agreements, forecasting assumptions, and incentive structures. By the time a report is reviewed, the pattern is already in motion.
That upstream layer is where I like to work.
The focus isn’t the invoice itself. It’s the decision environment around it. How tradeoffs get evaluated. How utilization is measured. How cost signals move between engineering and finance. How accountability gets built into the system.
When cost becomes part of the design conversation alongside performance, reliability, and speed, decision quality improves across the board.
WHAT THIS MEANS
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Cost gets modeled early, before commitments start to compound.
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Utilization isn’t an afterthought. It’s treated as a core operating metric.
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Architecture decisions carry economic weight, and that tradeoff is visible.
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Finance and engineering work from a shared cost language instead of translating after the fact.
THE WORK
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Decision Architecture
Designing the economic environment around technical decisions. Cost signals, tradeoff logic, accountability loops, and finance sitting inside engineering workflows instead of outside them.
Upstream structure shapes downstream outcomes.
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Economic Modeling
Allocation logic, forecasting discipline, utilization integrity, and AI and cloud unit economics.
Models that reflect how infrastructure actually behaves, not just how invoices are categorized.
Clear models lead to better commitments.
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Cost Operating Systems
Turning cost awareness into operating behavior.
Shared metrics, economic guardrails, commitment strategy, and leadership visibility.
Cost becomes embedded, not inspected.