Blakeley Bleidt
Sugar Land, TX 77479
281-***-**** ********@*****.***
Summary
Senior Application Development Management Professional responsible for providing leadership and technical guidance/direction in development and maintaining applications to meet the strategic and tactical business goals of the business units.
Responsibilities
• Provide direction on design and implementation
• Develop application process and compliance
• Define and validate development standards
• Recruit, hire and manage development teams
• Monitor industry standards
• Implement new functionality
• Collaborate with other IT staff and teams
• Improve existing products
• C level reporting and presentations
• Foster interdepartmental relationships
• Manage teams from 1 resource to 70
• Manage managers
Experience
• Application Development and Design
• Staff Development
• Business Process Improvement
• Software Testing and Delivery
• Waterfall and Agile Methodologies
• E-Commerce Development
• Program / Project Management
• Business Continuity
• Compliance Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Performance and Scalability
• Database Administration
Technology Summary
Databases: Access, SQL Server, Oracle
Languages: ASP, C, C++, FTP, IIS, TCP/IP, Visual Studio (.Net), XML
Platforms: AS/400, Azure, Linux, OpenVMS, UNIX, VMware
Software: Microsoft Office, Project, SharePoint, Visio, @task, HP PPM
Work History
Pharms, LLC Houston, TX 2016 - Pres
Senior Manager of Application Development
(.Net, ASP, Azure, SQL Server) Plan, coordinate, and supervise all activities related to the design, development, and implementation of the organization's applications development and analysis function. Manage multiple development teams supporting different lines of businesses. Work closely with clients in order to map and support their operational needs. Responsible for developing, distributing, supporting, enforcing, and integrating best practices and technology standards across the organization.
Fiserv Output Solutions Stafford, TX 2012 - 2016
Program Manager
(.Net, ISIS, SQL Server) Managed teams of Developers, Project Managers, Architects and Analysts in Houston and Offshore, that support the embossing, personalization, graphics and mailing of cards, printing of statements, letters, pamphlets, booklets and inserts, as well as working with our Electronic Delivery team to provide digital access to the documents. Over 100 clients were supported by my teams. Industries (along with some clients) include Retail (JC Penney), Associations (AAA), Transportation (Honda, Nissan), Entertainment, Financial (JPMorgan Chase), Hotel (Marriott), Government (Xerox), Communications (Cincinnati Bell), Utilities (CenturyLink, Liberty) and Healthcare (Kaiser). Develop and launch procedures to meet client SLAs, revenue targets, and quality goals, as well as ensure client satisfaction, as well as train employees in new processes. Organize and evaluate the IT revenue budget, resource capacity, strategic project and technology roadmaps, and executive reporting.
Consolidated Graphics Houston, TX 2010 - 2012
Manager of Application Development / Change Manager / Compliance Manager
(.Net, ASP, Azure, Pageflex, SQL Server, Oracle) Responsible for all Web and Applications Development. Manage a team of 70 developers both on-shore and off-shore, supporting internal financial and business applications along with customer facing web applications. Guide Staff through Change Management reviews and processes. Generate and provide Business Compliance with daily, monthly, quarterly and annual IT SOX deliverables.
IT Consulting Sugar Land, TX 2009 - 2010
Assist small medical businesses with IT Consulting and Software Management. Services include: Strategic Planning, Procurement, Backup and Recovery, Disaster Planning, Email and Virus Protection, Asset Management, Desktop Security, Wireless Networking, Integration and Technical Services and Performance Management.
BMC Software Houston, TX 1995 - 2009
R&D Lead Project Manager - 2007 – 2009
Manage vital projects between Research and Development and IT effecting 15 different international development teams. Gather requirements and maintained project plans from end to end for a variety of diverse projects. Manage project issues, risks and mitigate actions in a structured, documented and objective approach. Communicate with key stakeholders, vendors, site personnel and management. Monitor all Capital Spending.
Senior Manager - 2005 – 2007
Plan and manage the Performance, Scalability and Reliability (PSR) Lab Management Team’s activities and define high-level program and action plans. Responsible for ongoing client satisfaction. Manage peer-level client relationships (expectations, communications, negotiations, escalations, feedback, etc.). Ensure consistency and interoperability of project components. Provide technical leadership and guidance to team members and peers.
Using Agile development methodologies, partner with other R&D development teams to resolve PSR issues by providing interoperability and coexistence testing along with PSR definitions, and guidelines. Assist the field technicians with environment setups and sizing recommendations.
Product Development Manager - 2000 - 2005
(PSL, C, Oracle) Managed multiple Development, Quality Assurance, and Documentation international software release teams.
Coordinate the development of components that make up the PATROL Core Infrastructure and Product Suite.
Managed the development and release of the following PATROL infrastructure components: PATROL Security and PATROL Agent. Managed the development and release of the following PATROL products: PATROL Actual Web Response Timer, PATROL for Check Point Firewall-1, PATROL for Cisco Secure PIX, and PATROL for Internet Services. All products were delivered on schedule per requirements and specifications.
Lead Product Developer - 1995 - 2000
(PSL, C, Oracle) Manage a team of five developers. Led all phases of the product development cycle for a suite of industry-leading database management products including PATROL for Oracle, PATROL for Oracle Symmetric Replication, and PATROL for Oracle Parallel Server. All releases were delivered on schedule and were thoroughly unit tested.
Education
Associate of Science, Computer Programming Computer Learning Center Houston, TX