Mitch Bledsoe Email & Phone Number

Pomona, CA, US

Pomona, CA, US

Newport Beach, California, US

AutoZone is the leading retailer of automotive parts and accessories with more than 5,700 stores in USA, Mexico, Brazil, and Puerto Rico generating 10 billion dollars of revenue. ALLDATA, founded in 1986, is the leading provider of OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) service and repair information to the professional automotive service and collision.

Atlanta, Georgia, US

• Responsible for all aspects of software lifecycle management and associated cloud and on-prem infrastructure specific to a large portfolio of business applications supporting ~$4 billion in revenue.
• Spearhead from inception $200MM delivery of new state-of-the-art transformational platform and migration of all client data. Platform architected for native Cloud hosting using Domain Driven Design approach.
• Built inaugural Data Services organization migrating away from traditional Data Warehousing allowing for inline data-as-a-service features, Master Data Management, advanced visualizations and exponentially more.
• Introduced a true Agile environment including workspace design, training and adoption. Built strong relationships with business team members across multiple layers.
• Introduced DevOps culture empowering application teams to own delivery all the way to production.
• Installed pre & post operational planning/road-mapping best practices increasing productivity by 25%.

New York, NY, US

• Responsible for all aspects of the SDLC for over 15 enterprise application titles including primary sales and ad spot traffic systems for 950+ terrestrial radio stations and 2500+ streaming stations with automated.
• Presented for and secured $3.4MM capital project budget to rewrite flagship applications into single, cloud enabled, consolidated platform resulting in significant decrease in support and infrastructural cost savings.
• Created first “Data Lab” to identify monetization opportunities and Executive Decision Support
• Restructured analysis, development and QA teams to maximize throughput while maintaining integrity and quality.
• Successfully implemented a new Application Lifecycle Manager to properly support and enforce SDLC allowing for a significant increase in overall communication and visibility into projects, status and performance while.
• Initiated & released brand new application in 2012 resulting in $2.8MM annual savings with total investment of less than $1MM with potential for new revenue.

Irvine, CA, US

• Assumed responsibility over all corporate applications including Finance, ERP/CRM, CMDB, Reporting, Time Accounting, Service Mgmt., Corporate Internet & Intranet sites, Data Integrations, etc.
• Implemented corporate data warehouse and corresponding Decision Support organization.
• Successfully transitioned Service Mgmt. and Asset Mgmt. web applications’ support & development to India team.
• Standardized corporate development on.Net technologies.
• Implemented standardized development framework.

Santa Ana, California, US

• Oversaw all architecture, development and maintenance for flagship product application along with all infrastructure and monitoring functions.
• Engineered infrastructural rebuild using virtual server technology resulting in annual savings in excess of $11 million.
• Collaborated with multiple Business Units throughout corporation to identify, build and implement both commercial and bootstrapped, fully integrated technologies currently generating or supporting > $5 billion in.
• Successfully mentoring team of IT managers across 6 Business units to build and support areas of responsibility with documented, auditable Standard Operating Procedure Catalogs resulting in average documented systems.
• Architected and built fully integrated revenue reporting and billing system integrated with over a dozen revenue generating systems and 2 corporate financial accounting packages.
• Architected current Business Intelligence Platform currently providing relevant executive dashboard reporting including project management, resource planning, cost accounting and trending allowing for ultimate exposure.

• Managed design, development, and manufacturing of systems security, inventory control, and POS applications and devices based on use of proprietary radio frequency and biometric. (Staff of 20).
• Conceptualized and designed entertainment/educational electronic gaming software and hardware for sale on the open market.
• Successfully Sold company assets to Sony PlayStation & Boeing Securities (pre-planned).

US

• Architected and managed E-Procurement integration application, architected and managed automated claims processing integration application, architected and created contract information integration segment of on-line.
• Implemented company Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity strategy.
• Created Information Systems “Best Practice” matrix resulting in overall increase in documented systems availability from 97.4% to 99.99%.
• Co-architected and implemented WAN redesign for 45 locations and Novell to Microsoft conversion resulting in $720k annual cost reduction.

• The face and technical leader for multiple VC and angel investor funded projects in an “Incubation” type environment overseeing all aspects of business startup including product buildout, organizational establishment.
• Presented funding requests for multiple proprietary ventures totaling over $80 million to Angel Investors and Venture Capital firms.
• Designed & Setup infrastructure to support 2 ASP model product lines including an educational site and a news and information portal with over 1100 data feeds for content creating transactional revenue in excess of $14.
• Managed both domestic and off-shore management and development teams.
• Set up international data link for off shore development site in Pakistan. Participated in international travel to work hands on with development team and to verify necessary communication links and Quality Control.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration And Management, General

Biology, General