John Klose

About John Klose

Highly accomplished information technology executive with 30 years experience leading organizations through the realization of tactical and strategic programs and overall business-technology alignment.Full accountability for managing the development and support of enterprise-wide technology including internet, call-center, software development, network and server infrastructure.Directed the project management, software engineering, pre-sales consulting, and in-market support of commercial software products and ecommerce websites.Reported directly to the CEO or CIO. Roles included Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Chief Systems Architect, Applications Development Director, Senior Manager of Software Development, Principal Technology Program Manager and Head of Technology Programs PMO.Supervised over 300 matrixed staff members and consultants, at multiple sites in a distributed onshore/off-shore vendor management model, performing all phases of software development, and managed budgets over $20 million.Extensive experience with multi-tier web solutions, high volume transaction processing, large user communities, and complex data-driven workflows.Pioneered corporate initiatives in six-sigma, RUP, Agile, Iterative methodologies, distributed development, SOX compliance and CMM certification.Developed databases and ETL processing to support operations and analytics for business intelligence, including metrics, reports, cubes, data marts and data warehouses.Technologies include AngularJS, Atlassian, AWS, Azure, C, C#, C++, Cognos, CRM, DB2, Five9, Genesys, GraphQL, Hibernate, IIS, Informatica, Java, JavaScript, J2EE, Linux, Mercury, MQ.NET, Node.js, Oracle, Rational, REST, SalesForce, SharePoint, Siebel, SQL-Server, Tomcat, and many Web Services.

Experience

1. CTO and Co-founder

   Croissant

   May 2022 — Present · Nashville, TN, US

   Croissant is a fintech platform with a mission to empower intentional commerce.

Education

• Fox School of Business at Temple University

  MBA

  1989 — 1994

• Saint Joseph's University

  MS, Computer Science

  1984 — 1989

• Saint Joseph's University

  BS, Mathematics

  1980 — 1984

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• Distributed Systems
• Sharepoint
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Scalability
• Db2
• Software Development
• Scrum
• C++
• Informatica
• Siebel
• Weblogic
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Business Process Re-Engineering
• Databases
• .net
• Web Services
• Project Management
• Technical Leadership
• Rational
• Business Alignment
• IT Operations
• Architectures
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Oracle
• Websphere
• Architecture
• Integration
• Agile Methodologies
• Customer Relationship Management (Crm)
• Strategy
• E-Commerce
• Xml
• Analytics
• Sdlc
• Agile Project Management
• Vendor Management
• Crm
• Pmo
• Cognos