Chris Pravetz

About Chris Pravetz

Technology executive with over 15 years of experience building technology products, driving business transformation, and improving enterprise performance. Chris currently serves as CTO of Krezzo, a SaaS provider of operational and reporting solutions for mid-size businesses.Chris began his career at Price Waterhouse as a management consultant, where he contributed to developing and implementing software solutions for hospitals and Fortune 500 clients, including USX, HCA, Westinghouse, NBC, Disney, and Alcoa.As PwC\'s global consulting technologies leader, Chris implemented agile methodologies, developed commercial systems, created an early AI-based performance support system for the consulting industry and built methodology-driven planning, project management, and collaboration systems.As Global IT Strategy Leader for IBM Business Consulting, Chris directed the post-acquisition IT services transition program from PwC Consulting, managed a global team of 250 professionals with a $700M budget, and helped achieve significant IT cost reductions.Returning to PwC as Managing Director of Knowledge Services, Chris led a team of 140 professionals delivering KM services, proposal development, and maintaining the firm\'s intranet, portal, and knowledge management systems. He helped develop global collaboration strategies.Chris\' first startup developed and sold a personal investment portfolio system that was acquired by Belvedere Systems.As co-founder of Seakaytee, Inc, Chris invested in and advised emerging businesses, providing funding and strategic guidance to early-stage technology companies, and had success growing and selling multiple businesses.Key career achievements include:Leading product development for Krezzo Kodi (AI-enabled collaboration platform), stage7 (adaptive AI platform), SportsBiz Brandmatch, PwC Ascendant (performance support system), MicroPort (investment management system later adopted by Oppenheimer), and COST/FACTs (hospital cost accounting system)Seakaytee recognized as Mid-Sized Business of the Year by the Dunedin Chamber of CommerceCompleting IBM\'s post-acquisition IT integration in 18 months instead of the planned 36Helping reduce annual IT spend by more than $100 million for two global organizations

Experience

1. Chief Technology Officer

   Krezzo

   Jul 2022 — Present · Tampa, FL, US

   Lead technical executive for a two product SAAS company. Managing the operations, enhancement and operations for an OKR product running on AWS. Implementing new security controls and operational practices to improve team efficiency, client data security and profitability. Leading the development of an AI enabled collaboration system that optimizes mediums for messages and provides an alternative to inefficient in person meetings. Implementing optimized CI/CD, integrated testing, and new native mobile app companions to the SAAS offering.

Education

• Robert Morris University

  BS, Business Administration

Skills

• Mergers & Acquisitions
• Service Delivery
• Business Analysis
• Strategy
• Process Improvement
• Management Consulting
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Pmo
• Leadership
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Financial Analysis
• Information Technology
• Software Development
• Business Intelligence
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• IT Strategy
• Software Design
• Software Project Management
• Governance
• Business Process Improvement
• Business Strategy
• Change Management
• Vendor Management
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process
• Strategic Planning
• Outsourcing
• Business Transformation
• Professional Services
• Project Management
• IT Management
• Product Management
• Performance Improvement
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Consulting
• Knowledge Management
• Program Management