Jonathan Midgley

Since completing an honors degree in Computer Science in '92, I have been delivering large scale business critical solutions to a client list that includes UBS, Standard Life, Barclays Bank, RBS, Zurich, Royal Skandia and CACI.

I began my career leading development teams for large global finance companies, Zurich & Royal Skandia; started my own company in the 90's; and am now focused on technology start-ups.

My experience covers both global infrastructure and large scale application development, as well as operational support, and business start-up and change.

In 2006 I co-founded a software house in the City of London called Evaluate Technologies Ltd., specialising in delivering turnkey solutions to the Finance Sector, with clients including GMAC-RFC & Charcol. I have helped grow the business from a start-up to a team of over 50 people.

In early 2009 I founded Comment Technologies, a business which combines social media with market research, and am currently launching BandPie, a unique social media platform for music, and Thick Cut Recordings, a record label.

I also make music like this :
http://fairtilizer.com/users/midge
http://www.myspace.com/communityspiritproductions

Jonathan Midgley’s Specialties:

Company Startup; Fund Raising, Business Planning & Recruitment.

Delivering large scale web based solutions on time, on spec, on budget; Business & Technology Strategy, Company Management, Project Management and Planning.

Geek Stuff; Software Development, Testing, Deployment and Support, Methodology Implementation; Agile RAD Development, SCRUM, E-Business, Microsoft Technologies, Budgeting, Database Design, Process Engineering, FSA Compliance, Disaster Recovery.

Jonathan Midgley’s Experience

CEO & Founder

Thick Cut Recordings

(Music industry)

2009 — Present (less than a year)

A new East London based, cutting-edge electronic music record label. 1st signing, the amazing Super Milkmen : http://www.myspace.com/supermilkmen
CEO

BandPie

(Music industry)

May 2009 — Present (3 months)
CEO & Founder

Comment Technologies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2008 — Present (8 months)

Comment marries social networking and community engagement with market research. We deliver robust, scalable best of breed solutions that enable clients to manage and monitor the community engagement process.

The Comment platform provides a remotely hosted, web-based, white labelled, modular service that:
• Connects a network of people with shared interests
• Delivers great user experience
• Leads to improved levels of communication and collaboration
• Ensures that organisations own the data generated
• Enables a deep understanding of the community voice
• Delivers essential business and market intelligence

A cost-effective industry standard community engagement solution.
MD & Founder

Evaluate Technologies Ltd.

(Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2006 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Co-founder of a Software House based in The City of London, specialising in delivering turnkey solutions to the Finance Sector.

Our flagship award winning product family 'Evaluate' enables users to submit a mortgage enquiry, receive the best responses from every lender, select a product, and submit their application online.

It is a step change away from the current online propositions, which without exception are all simple lead generators, selling on the consumer as a lead to a brokerage who will later cold call them.

Evaluate meets the customers expectations by allowing them to complete mortgage sourcing through application online without ever leaving the original website. It does this in seconds with 100% accurate market data.

Read more about EvaluateConsumer, and our other products on our website.
Producer & Founder

Community Spirit Productions

(Music industry)

1998 — Present (11 years)

A music production collaboration, primarily between myself, Richie Spoons and Kelly Williams, but with a host of other featured musicians inc the legendary Alison Limerick.

Started off the back of our Bless This House and Community Spirit parties in London in the late 90's.

Releases on Bedrock, West End, Money Pennies among others.

Taken a back burner recently while we focus on other ventures and having kids, but watch this space...
MD & Founder

Fusion Media Consultancy Ltd.

(Privately Held; Internet industry)

January 1998 — September 2006 (8 years 9 months)

Fusion was formed to service the offshore life assurance industry, building on my experience managing development and infrastructure teams for Royal Skandia and Zurich, later expanding into other Financial Services sectors.

We specialised in building ebusiness solutions, as well as designing, building and supporting large system infrastructures, and oversaw a wide range of multi-million pounds projects and budgets.

Experienced in both large scale internet and traditional software development, Fusion provided bespoke business critical ROI driven solutions, as well as integrating with existing systems, and ongoing support.

A selection of our clients :

Citibank
ABN Amro
UBS
Unison
Lovell White Durrant
Allied Dunbar International
Standard Life
Royal Bank Of Scotland
Royal Skandia
Eagle Star
Barclays Bank
Wimpey Construction Ltd
Monarch Airlines
London Stock Exchange
M6Toll
Mothercare

www.fusion-media-consultancy.com
Interim CTO

Utilyx

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Utilities industry)

January 2005 — July 2006 (1 year 7 months)

I joined Utilyx during a time of crisis as Interim CTO, to help out the co-founder, Scott Bradley, a friend. The company had expanded rapidly, and the bespoke technology, infrastructure and teams were failing to keep up.

The company has an in-house trading desk, as well as a number of proprietary business critical trading systems, all of which were built and supported in-house.

The trading desk were struggling under a lack of systems, and the core proposition, the online reverse auction, was not scaling to meet customers demands. Customers included some of the UK's largest companies, Tesco, Cemex, Royal Mail, AllianceBoots, Diageo, O2, Yorkshire Water and AstraZeneca.

The reverse auction system had to be scaled through decommissioning and fundamental re-structuring of the infrastructure, and re-engineering of much of the architecture. I took the system from circa 60% reliability to 100%.

read about the company here :
http://www.utilyx.com/
Programme Director

CACI

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; CAI; Information Technology and Services industry)

2004 — 2004 (less than a year)

CACI are the global leading provider of marketing solutions and information systems. I lead the design and build of Insite, CACI's unique Online Geographical Information System (GIS).

read more about the system here :
http://www.insite.info/2-online.asp

and the company here :
http://www.caci.co.uk/
Development Manager

Royal Skandia

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; Financial Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

I ran a number of business critical projects and programmes, including Instream (sponsored by Juan Costain, who recommends me below), a ground breaking client-server PC/Microsoft based Forex Trading System, the 1st of its kind in the organisiation which wasn't mainframe based.

I also built various Quotation, and Decisioning Systems including what is recognised as one of the 1st Broker Quotation systems to use the internet, rather than floppy disk to distribute data!

As well as the above, I pioneered the interfacing of PC and AS/400 systems, and was responsible for all PC based development world-wide.
Assistant Development Manager

Zurich

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; ZURN; Insurance industry)

1993 — 1995 (2 years)

Arriving at a time when the client was thin, and the system was IBM AS/400 mainframe, my timing was fortunate; I began as the only PC resource and managed to convince the then CIO that it would be a good idea to try out Windows, and interface to the AS/400 using Rhumba. This worked fantastically, as history now shows - with the desktop wiping out the mainframe in years.

I went on to introduce visual development to the organisation, initially (if i remember rightly!) with Microsoft Access, then Visual Basic as it became available.

It was around this time that one of the guys on the analysis team, Mike McCord - now Zurich CIO - took an I.T. Director position down the road at Royal Skandia and asked me to join him and run the newly formed 'PC Development Team' - see my next role, above.

This was an incredibly exciting time, and I worked with some of the best people I have had the good fortune to meet, despite the 13 years which have passed since!

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