About

Jose Criollo

Operations Manager & AI Systems Builder

Founder, Meta Markets Capital · AI Implementation, Program Operations & Workflow Automation · B.S. Computer Science

An operator who builds.

I’m an operations manager who builds AI systems. I studied Computer Science at Montclair State University and finished in three years on the Dean’s List. I’ve worked in operations since 2020, from my family’s contracting business to a STEM education center, where I ran daily operations for about 10 instructors and managed our partner schools.

Today I run Meta Markets Capital, an AI solutions company. I design and deploy custom systems for businesses (lead engines, CRMs, member portals and automations) and I run The AI Arc, an AI education and mentorship program I built from the curriculum to the software it runs on.

Markets are where it started: Meta Markets Capital began as the LLC I set up for my own trading. I’ve traded stock options and index futures for a few years, I hold the Bloomberg Market Concepts certification, and I build my own trading tools.

Where I’ve worked.

  1. Dec 2025 – Present
    Valley Cottage, NY · Hybrid

    Founder

    Meta Markets Capital

    An AI solutions company that designs and deploys custom systems for businesses and runs The AI Arc, an AI education and mentorship program. Launched as an AI automation agency for local service businesses and bootstrapped to first revenue and a first group of AI Arc members within three months.

    • Built an automated local lead engine: Google Places API scraping, AI enrichment and engagement scoring with the Claude API, and Slack routing, plus a daily YouTube lead scraper on GitHub Actions.
    • Built the AI Arc member portal and an internal operator app (Supabase, Cloudflare R2, Stripe and DocuSign webhooks) with auto-graded quizzes, progress tracking and a multi-platform posting engine.
    • Designed the go-to-market system: pricing, a closer’s playbook, a sales-call SOP, a commission-based sales rep agreement, a referral partner program and a member affiliate program.
    • Wrote the six-module AI curriculum and onboarding system, and deliver all 1:1 mentorship.
    • Delivered custom client builds, including a Shopify store launch and brand identity work for creators.
    • Run content marketing at 20+ posts a week across TikTok, Instagram and YouTube.
  2. Jan 2020 – Present
    New City, NY · Part-time

    Operations & Business Development

    AA&C Home Improvement & Maintenance

    Support the operations of my family’s licensed home improvement contractor.

    • Prepare proposals and estimates, manage invoicing and track receivables.
    • Built the company’s web presence from the ground up (website, Google Business Profile, social channels) and manage client communication and inbound lead intake.
    • Lead the company’s expansion into public-sector work: contractor licensing, certifications, vendor registrations and bid research across Rockland, Westchester and Bergen counties.
  3. Dec 2024 – Dec 2025
    Fort Lee, NJ

    Program Operations & Partnerships Manager

    The R Child STEM Center · Aug 2025 – Dec 2025, full-time

    • Managed daily operations for about 10 instructors in a 50+ person organization: schedules, class assignments and curriculum readiness for B2B school programs.
    • Primary point of contact for partner schools: aligned schedules, distributed resources and made sure contract deliverables were met. Supported renewals by tracking partner satisfaction and sales-conversion metrics.
    • Redesigned instructor onboarding (manuals and training videos) and set up a formal classroom observation and evaluation process.

    STEM Instructor

    The R Child STEM Center · Dec 2024 – Dec 2025, part-time

    • Taught coding fundamentals, robotics and general science to classes of about 12 students, and designed new specialty classes to grow the catalog and enrollment. Promoted to Program Operations & Partnerships Manager.
  4. Jun 2022 – Jan 2025
    New Jersey · Seasonal

    Personal Assistant

    Tracy Morgan

    • Seasonal personal assistant role built on organization and time management.
  5. Oct 2023 – Mar 2024
    Part-time

    Personal Trainer

    Crunch Fitness

    • Supported the pre-opening launch with marketing that generated 6,000+ leads and 2,500+ membership sign-ups before opening day, and drove personal-training revenue through prospect assessments.

Things I’ve shipped.

  • The AI Arc builder portalMembers-only web app: 6 modules and 39 lessons, auto-graded quizzes, progress tracking, a six-stage roadmap, and an AI teammate that knows the whole curriculum.
  • Lead enginesGoogle Places scraping with Claude enrichment, scoring and Slack routing, plus a daily YouTube lead scraper on GitHub Actions.
  • Trading desk automationTradingView webhooks into Postgres, a market-internals dashboard, Slack alerts and a trade journal that measures every trade.
  • Client buildsShopify stores and brand sites for Katerina’s Kinis and MODERA, and the web presence for AA&C Home Improvement.

Credentials.

Education & certification

B.S. Computer Science

Montclair State University

Jan 2023 – May 2025 · Dean’s List · Graduated in 3 years

Bloomberg Market Concepts

Bloomberg

Markets

I’ve traded stock options and index futures for a few years. I trade with written rules and measure myself against them.

I built my own trading desk tooling: custom TradingView indicators that post alerts by webhook into a Postgres database, a dashboard that reads market internals every 10 minutes, Slack alerts, and a trade journal that tracks max adverse and favorable excursion on every trade.

What I bring.

Operations

  • Program management
  • Project management
  • Team management
  • Partner management
  • Process design
  • Onboarding & training
  • Sales operations

AI & automation

  • AI implementation
  • Prompt engineering
  • Claude
  • AI assistants & chatbots
  • Workflow automation
  • API integrations
  • Lead generation systems

Tools I build with

  • Supabase (Postgres)
  • Cloudflare
  • GitHub Actions
  • Google Workspace APIs
  • Slack
  • Notion
  • Shopify
  • Stripe
  • DocuSign

Markets

  • Options
  • Futures
  • Risk management
  • Market internals
  • TradingView & Pine Script

Contact

Let’s talk.

The fastest way to reach me is email. I reply to every message.