Jonathan Blake Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for BMG’s Recorded Supply Chain systems & connecting with stakeholders throughout BMG with the aim of understanding their business requirements and translating these clearly into product development process.Responsibilities include:- Assessing the value of the work using best practices within Product Management (Agile/Scrum)- Providing vision, roadmaps, direction and methodology to offshore development teams and stakeholders across projects.- Release plan in conjunction with development teams & ongoing communication with business stakeholders.- Assess return on investment, develop business cases, prioritize epics and stories to align with overall business and product strategy- Ensure a good balance between feature set development and continuing resolving of technical debt- Play an active role in resolving blockers preventing successful completion of critical business tasks- understanding business requirements, core customer needs and turning these clearly into digital products that your users love to use

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for supporting UMG’s central Metadata teams of support users and metadata specialists, local trainers and new users of the R2 application. Managing a team to monitor pre-release metadata to ensure that our releases are fit for internal and external use and to reduce the number of tickets we receive from iTunes so that we may achieve a ‘direct to store’ score. Responsibilities included:- Monitoring and tracking the training of all new users, and R2 access across all environments globally.- Assessing any potential training requirements regarding new and existing staff by proactively reviewing data issue metrics and liaising with the metadata teams.- Documenting processes and standards followed by the central metadata team thus ensuring better training resources for the central metadata staff going forwards.- Working with the Director of Metadata Operations, Data & Process Analyst and Senior Metadata Support Manager to ensure clear visibility (supported by metrics) of issues to inform decision making around individual and group training needs.- Working with the metadata team to collate all business context and processes that relate to the metadata captured in UMG’s labelcopy system.- Assisting the Metadata Support managers in delivering training materials for their local contacts. and to teach the support managers how to train their dedicated users.- Discuss training material needs with the labels globally to ensure that local requirements are also covered.

London, United Kingdom

Working with territories (domestic and international) to ensure the quick and accurate resolution of data issues are resolvedBuilding relationships with contacts across the business by providing a high standard of business and systems support for the distribution of UMG’s contentManaging global digital and physical initiatives as briefed by UMGI’s Senior Director of Content and Rights MetadataHandling release requirements for physical and digital releases for migrated EMI content plus all future label/catalogue acquisitionsSkills and Experience obtained:- Understanding the Digital Supply chain, its processes and its functionality within a major music company.- Supporting users in solving data and business related issues.- Knowledge of label copy data, their related systems and training users on how to use these systems.- Data compliance and partner support (e.g. compliance to iTunes standard guidelines).- A detailed understanding of metadata requirements and related issues across all product types, media and genres

London, United Kingdom

- Project managing the life cycle of a release ensuring they go through appropriate testing and into production.- Work closely with operational and champion users to prepare for the rollout of new desktop & server software releases to BBC systems, documenting results and feeding back to relevant supplier Release Management Teams- Working with key stakeholders including System Specialists, System Owners, Development teams and technology partners on how to plan for future releases.- Report on defects/issues that affect the implementation of a release and escalate accordingly.- Ensure the Change Management Team is informed of any Release activity in the live environment and that the relevant change requests relating to releases are raisedSkills and Experience obtained:- Project management releases under the pressures and demands of a fast-moving, complex broadcast environment- Experience of working with complex multi system, multi-site environments.- Experience of implementing new initiatives or driving through process change and new ways of working.- Ability to plan, prioritise and co-ordinate own and team activities

London, United Kingdom

- Working as a key member of the Digital Supply chain team, reporting to the GR Operations Director.- Building relationships with contacts across the business by providing a high standard of business and systems support for the distribution of EMI’s Global Repertoire.- Understanding and ensuring compliance of GR’s LabelCopy data standards and communicating this to business users across EMI’s international territories and labels.- Conducting data analyses and identifying business related issues.- Resolving and escalating repertoire related issues.- Training GR users on new and existing functionality.- Updating and maintaining GR global standards documentation and ensuring this it is being distributed and understood correctly by the users.- Running compliance checks to iTunes Standard Guidelines in order to identify errors before release. Running weekly statistics to assess labels performance to compliance.- Implementing & coordinating data clean-up projects to a deadlines. This has recently involved the resolution of data issues and missing data in preparation for migration from GR to UMG’s R2 system.- Conducting User Acceptance Testing (UAT) and sign-off to enhance the GR system whenever new functionality is added.- Understanding the detail of ownership/exclusivity of releases and the impact within the digital supply chain.- Maintaining GR’s territorial rights on releases and ensuring users are aware of takedown procedures (legal, scheduling and marketing reasons)- Working closely with other members of the digital supply chain team to anticipate/resolve issues in downstream systems.Skills and Experience obtained:- Supporting users in solving data and business related issues.- Knowledge of label copy data, their related systems and training users on how to use these systems.- Data analysis and reporting.- Setting and working to deadlines.- Awareness of emerging digital changes and procedures.

London, United Kingdom

- Management and co-ordination of deliveries for all releases across digital formats (audio, ringtone, video) to digital retailers including 3mobile, Vodafone, Spotify and Playstation 3.- Maintaining relationships with key retailers and labels to ensure the correct content is delivered before the release date.- Co-ordination with colleagues to ensure the content is encoded, formatted and delivered correctly.- Devising lists of frontline releases and catalogue content to various digital retailers.- Updating licences and clearances in VidZone’s content management system.Skills and experience obtained: - Knowledge of the digital music industry.- Time management skills, prioritising workload.- Awareness of new and upcoming music releases.- People management skills, multi-tasking.- Working to deadlines.

- Assisting with the licensing, encoding, distribution and marketing of major label content over a variety of digital platform- Creation and entry of metadata into a content management system- Testing for bugs, faults, corrupted files within the digital content and writing up full reports- Creating promotion images, sending packages to business partners, labelling, encoding and delivering content to retailers

Milan Area, Italy

Ba, Music And Media Communications

European Baccalaureate, English, Music, Philosophy, Biology

Activities and Societies: Big Band, Choir, Orchestra,