Summary
Jon Kantola is a consulting practice director and business systems specialist with 25+ years turning manufacturing and industrial operations into measurable business value through ERP, CRM, and BI solutions. He leads CloudSuite Industrial (Syteline) implementations and practice growth, blending deep hands-on skills in Infor CPQ/CRM/VISUAL, SQL/SSRS, and integration architectures with program and project management experience. Jon has repeatedly recovered stalled ERP rollouts, cut inventory and cycle times via MRP and Lean, and built CPQ-driven migrations that bridge legacy systems to cloud ERP. He pairs technical fluency with operational leadership—having managed quality, supply chain, and engineering teams across automotive, defense, and industrial manufacturers—and mentors consultants to scale repeatable delivery. An Eagle Scout and long-time volunteer leader, he brings disciplined process design and people development to complex change initiatives.
9 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Masters Project Management, Masters Project Management at Keller Graduate School of Management of DeVry University
Cal Poly Pomona