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Thomas Ferri

@thomasferri

Technology executive advising on FinOps and IT strategy, who built production agentic systems and a FinOps practice from zero.

United States

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At my independent practice, I advise organizations on cloud cost strategy, FinOps maturity, contracts, and agentic AI risk in regulated environments. I also built a multi-tenant AEO citation-analysis platform and a multi-entity FinOps dashboard with automated bank reconciliation.

As Senior Vice President of Cloud Operations at CONSTELLATION DIGITAL PARTNERS, LLC, I built the FinOps practice from zero and directed a $4.2M annual vendor portfolio to 15% year-over-year cost reduction. The work documented $884K in annual savings, while production workloads achieved 99.96% uptime.

At SYNTAXSYSTEMS USA, I owned major separation and infrastructure programs, including a global logistics carve-out involving 800 systems. The go-live ran in a 28-hour window with zero technology incidents and 100% of data migrated.

At APPTIO, I led six concurrent TBM/ITBM programs across client portfolios totaling more than $400M annually. I built AWS and Azure chargeback and showback models and surfaced more than $12M in identified IT cost reductions.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Principal Advisor

Current

Independent Practice

Dec 2025 - Present (10 months)

Provides IT strategy, FinOps, and AI systems advisory, including cloud cost diagnostics, FinOps maturity assessments, and executive advisory on agentic AI deployment in regulated environments.

FinOps Cloud Cost Management AI Strategy Agentic AI Vendor Management Executive Advisory

Senior Vice President, Cloud Operations

Constellation Digital Partners, LLC

Dec 2022 - Jan 2026 (3 years 1 month)

Directed a $4.2M vendor portfolio to 98% SLA compliance and 15% YoY cost reduction. Built FinOps practice from zero, achieving $884K annual savings and 18% reduction, and briefed C-suite and Board on investment and risk.

FinOps AWS Vendor Management Cost Optimization Executive Reporting Leadership SOC2 PCI DSS

Director, AWS Operations

Constellation Digital Partners, LLC

Mar 2022 - Dec 2022 (9 months)

Launched AWS Security Hub and deployed AWS Inspector across 200+ EC2 instances, reducing manual triage by 75% and critical/high security findings by 89% in 90 days. Standardized Go-Live assessment framework and reduced deployment-related incidents by 83%.

AWS Security Hub Inspector Incident Management Production Readiness Release Governance

Director, Enterprise Services Delivery

Syntax Systems USA

Jan 2020 - Aug 2021 (1 year 7 months)

Owned a multi-year separation program for a specialty chemical divestiture, delivering Day 1 readiness against a contractual close date. Directed quarterly executive business reviews to client C-suites covering operational performance and financial metrics.

Program Management Separation SAP AWS Executive Reporting Vendor Management

Technical Delivery Manager, Team Lead

Syntax Systems USA

Aug 2016 - Jan 2020 (3 years 5 months)

Led a multi-year separation program for a global logistics client, migrating 800 systems across North America, Europe, and India with zero incidents. Managed full P&L for a $16M annual managed services contract and rebuilt P1 incident response reducing notification time from 2 hours to 15 minutes.

Program Management Migration P&L management Incident Management ERP VMWare Oracle

Senior Implementation Manager, Infrastructure Data Services

Apptio

Feb 2014 - Jun 2016 (2 years 4 months)

Led six simultaneous TBM/ITBM programs overseeing client OpEx/CapEx portfolios totaling $400M+ annually. Built custom chargeback and showback models for AWS and Azure, enabling clients to attribute 100% of cloud cost to business units.