Aaron Alvarado

Technology finance, IT Financial Management (ITFM), and FinOps leader with 20+ years of experience spanning technology finance, financial analysis, program management, and IT portfolio leadership. Proven record of building capabilities, teams, and executive partnerships that improve technology cost transparency, investment planning, and governance across regulated and global environments. Experienced in IT budgeting and forecasting, business case development, cost modeling, portfolio governance, capitalization, FinOps, and executive decision support. Built an enterprise public cloud FinOps practice that increased Azure tagging coverage from 50% to 97% and avoided $50K in annual networking costs, while leading capitalization initiatives that reduced unfavorable budget variance by $2M and exceeded target by $1.9M. Seeking IT Finance leadership or lead-level opportunities where I can apply this combination of financial management, technology strategy, portfolio governance, and cross-functional leadership to improve IT investment decisions and business outcomes.