Chris Bledsoe Email & Phone Number

Pleasanton, California, US

Lead the Workday Cloud Platform Developer Relations team in building out instructional content for developers via tutorials, creating apps for the App Catalog, and running developer centric events like Workday DevCon.Work closely with product management and engineering to ensure that developer needs are clearly communicated and understood as it relates to.

• Combining Academics with the Exciting Worlds of Aviation and Aerobatics!The vision of SkyBatics is to partner with local High Schools and Accredited Aviation Maintenance Technology Schools in the Greater San Francisco.
• Maintain corporate records, develop and promote community outreach programs, utilizing crowdsource funding (Indiegogo) and recruitment.
• Coordinating all board meetings, tracking decisions, ensuring compliance with corporate policies.

Redwood City, California, US

• Xtra IQ™ develops cloud-based business applications and is committed to redefining enterprise mobile computing. SweetSpot is a mobile sales and market intelligence solution, developed by Xtra IQ (www.xtraiq.com) and.
• Advised on app design, function and capability to maximize usability for iOS platform.

Belmont, CA, US

RingCentral transforms how businesses communicate and collaborate to unleash their full potential. Today over 350,000 organizations choose RingCentral for innovative and secure ways to connect employees, boost workforce productivity, share knowledge, and strengthen customer relationships. Our cloud-based communication and collaboration platform offers much.

Redwood City, California, US

• Bluescape is a visual collaboration platform that enables content oriented communication. Current methods of collaboration are serial in nature and more about the "meeting" less about the "work". This inhibits human.
• Defined, created and implemented partner program targeted at hardware/software solution providers.
• Built AV integration partnership with AVI-SPL, largest AV integrator in North America.
• Created “Better with Bluescape” video blog series highlighting how to use 3rd party tools with Bluescape.
• Coordinated with Engineering, Marketing, and Product Management defining developer APIs across platforms.

Fort Lauderdale, FL, US

• Created internal developer program for Cloud.com APIs via an SDK for iOS/Android/Windows/REST.
• Directed team of technical evangelists focused on recruitment, support and training of internal development teams leveraging the Cloud SDK.
• Sponsored internal Hack-a-thon demonstrating the cross-platform capabilities of the Cloud SDK across iOS/Android/Windows/Google Glass resulting in honorable mention within company.
• Recruited 20 external developers into Cloud beta program leveraging existing relationships with mobile developers.
• Hired 4 technical writers creating content using Atlassian Confluence for beta program including Getting Started Guides, QuickStarts, Sample apps and API reference guide.

Cupertino, California, US

• Hired and coached two team managers of senior individual contributors in strategic development and business partnership with app developers for the following iTunes App Store segments: Business, Education, Reference.
• Recruited, hired and mentored Education team with focus on identifying key developers with unique app offerings taking advantage of new iOS features and capabilities.
• Directly fostered all North American Wireless carriers app developers, plus major Enterprise app providers such as SAP, Oracle, Salesforce.com, IBM, Docusign, Citrix and Mobile Device Management developers – Mobile.
• Coordinated app developer marketing activities with iTunes, Direct Sales, Apple Retail business solutions resulting in 500% increase in app downloads and revenue generation.
• Establish and administered Salesforce.com instance for partnership tracking and app development for entire organization resulting in executive visibility of app development pipeline in preparation for iOS/iPhone launch.

Cupertino, California, US

• Founded and trained Developer Relations Business team in support of iTunes App Store launch in 2008 producing over 500+ apps on day one by recruiting developers to create ground-breaking apps.
• Generated high-quality apps through the outreach of existing OS X application developers to create mobile apps utilizing the new iOS SDK.
• Identified leading mobile app development strategies ensuring app developers leveraged latest iOS technologies such as Map, geo-location, retina display, background processes, device management & security features.
• Recruited strategic virtualization partners for Intel-based Macs (Parallels & VMware) resulting in the 3rd and 4th largest revenue generators with Apple Online and with Apple Retail.
• Coordinated app developers who participated in new iOS & iPhone launches showcasing new functionality.

Cupertino, California, US

• Directed strategic developer relations with key Mac software and solution providers in Business, Backup and Open Source segment.
• Collaborated with Product Marketing in creating Apple in the Enterprise programs delivered to over 100+ enterprise focused customers in Fortune 1000.
• Frequently presented to key customers highlighting integrated Mac hardware and software technologies in Apple Executive Briefing Center resulting in higher sales for enterprise team.
• Lead the Enterprise Track for Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (2005, 2006) coordinating 50+ technical sessions, created keynote presentation for track, built Enterprise Lab, presented Backup Solutions sessions.
• Defined, created & executed Apple’s participation in multiple industry conferences such as Oracle Open World.

• Lead team of systems engineers helping 3rd party developers to implement key Palm OS technologies within enterprise marketplace.
• Facilitated wireless hardware beta programs, partner sales engagements, and conferences resulting in larger number of enterprise focused apps on 3rd party app development sites.

Austin, Texas, US

• Directed global team of technical architects to drive mobile and wireless solutions resulting in 100% annual revenue growth.
• Presented executive level product pitches at Oracle Executive Briefing Center resulting in being repeatedly rewarded with “Best Oracle Presenter” award.

Austin, Texas, US

Lead strategic technical relationship to cultivate product adoption opportunities via product presentations/demos, identified mutual market opportunities and assisted partnership product developer cycle. Negotiated successful participation of partners in OOW resulting in higher partner exposure in enterprise market.

Austin, Texas, US

Created and implemented information system strategies.

Austin, Texas, US

Lead a team of sales consultants for south-west region strategic partners and nationwide phone based pre-sales support. Planned and organized office moves, general manager meetings for Worldwide Alliances and technical off-sites. Managed computing, network infrastructure and application support.