Articles by Klaus Salchner (Canada) (Articles: 5)

Experienced technology leader who is passionate about building cloud and enterprise based products. Building an innovative and modern cloud product is a people business which requires to assemble a team of passionate and continuously improving technologists, establishing a vision and framework to buy into, and then let your team execute and drive that product vision. Ship frequently, build a strong feedback loop with your customers and partners and continuously iterate till you get it right.

I am a seasoned executive which has more then twenty-five years of experience running product development organizations around the globe. Has managed multimillion dollar budgets, experience with outsourcing and off-shoring in India and Vietnam for more than ten years, and experience in the Microsoft and Java/J2EE platform. Managed many initiatives across organizational boundaries and has often been called upon by the CEO, COO or SVP to manage teams, projects or systems from crisis to success. Proven track record to deliver world class enterprise software deployed behind the firewall and in the Cloud by large customers like IBM, HP, US Navy, US Army, Department of Defence, Lockheed Martin, Boeing and many more. Delivered software translated into more than thirty languages, deployed by more than 50% of the Fortune 100 companies and used by more than twenty million users in more than 1300 companies. Has run multiple Cloud operations with uptime SLA’s of four nines. Delivered numerous innovations which resulted in millions of dollar revenue and has been featured in several case studies by Microsoft. Active contributor in the online technical community.

You can read more about the four Product leadership experiences which I have demonstrated over my career and which I deeply care about at my LinkedIn profile