James Butler

Current

ICT Project Manager at St John

Past

Project Manager at ASB
Senior Analyst Programmer at ASB Technology Solutions
Manpower Planning Software Engineer at NZ Navy

Admin Officer Recruiting at NZ Navy
Emmigrated to NZ from UK at n/r (Self-employed)

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Education

The University of Glamorgan
St Lawrence College

Recommended

10 people have recommended James

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

James Butler’s Summary

Project Managers' need to be credible, by professional accreditation you can instill confidence and by keeping your eyes and ears open to latest tools and techniques you can glean valuable business knowledge and that competitive edge. My outlook is one of constant evolution and hence standing still is not an option.

Project Management is 9/10's communication, and as such a network of like minded individuals is a prime tool to absorb knowledge and spread the word.
My main aim is to glean further knowledge of AGILE / PRINCE / PMI methodologies so that I can use the most appropriate toolsets over future projects to reach even further successful outcomes.

My motto is “Enabling projects to successful fruition” and this is achieved through hard work, careful research and an empathetic ability to listen

James Butler’s Specialties:

LION 2321 connections (I'm 1 of 16 NZ LIONS). Experience in: Financial Sector, Charity Sector, 360 Leadership, GTD, Strategic Thinking, Quadrant 2 Organising, Conflict Resolution, Team Building. Being a LION enables me to assist others and being a LION Maven I relish spreading tips & techniques to take LI Open Networking (LION) to the next level! (hence my TopLinked.com membership)

James Butler’s Experience

ICT Project Manager

St John

(Non-Profit; Hospital & Health Care industry)

May 2007 — Present (2 years 3 months)

Currently within the Information Communications & Technology (ICT) area of St John and overseeing a number of projects relating to Infrastructure & Application Development.
Project Manager

ASB

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

January 2005 — May 2007 (2 years 5 months)

Responsibilities:
• 2005 – Project Managed ASB Workstation releases (*3) deploying phased software releases to 3000+ workstations and 800+ servers. Liaised with Project PM's who had their applications teed up in the respective releases. Escalated problems to respective Solution Managers and improved process through the 3 iterations.
• March 2006 to Oct 2006: Oversaw the rewrite of the Banks' Online Registration System.
• October 2005 to present: looking after three ASB Investment infrastructure projects, liaising across group businesses.
Senior Analyst Programmer

ASB Technology Solutions

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 1999 — July 2005 (5 years 10 months)

Oversee the deployment of Internal Web Solution Projects.
Provide Architectural advice in relation to the Bank’s internal web servers.
Webmaster for Bank’s Intranets & subsidiary applications
Liaise with third party vendors in relation to Web application deployment on Intranet Servers; front end design, Infrastructure & component utilisation, bundling / release process.
Develop exhilarating Websites, utilising; ASP, HTML, XML, VBScript, JavaScript.
Manpower Planning Software Engineer

NZ Navy

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

June 1998 — December 1999 (1 year 7 months)

• One of a team of two personnel trained in Allaires‘ COLD FUSION and tasked to administer and develop new business processes on the Navy’s Intranet
• Assisted in the development and maintenance of the PERSEUS database (a system devised in house, from an initial design from the RAN, this database stores Personnel data and uses complex VBA routines to slice and dice data. This was then used to extrapolate data into the future and therefore assess what would happen up to 10/15yrs in the future as a result of certain decisions)
Admin Officer Recruiting

NZ Navy

(Government Agency; 5001-10,000 employees; Defense & Space industry)

October 1995 — June 1998 (2 years 9 months)

• Answer inquiries on RNZN recruiting matters.
• Oversee the processing of Direct Entry Officer applications.
• Prepare all accounts for the Recruiting HQ and budget preparation for the next financial year.
• Act as Naval liaison between the Navy and their respective Advertising Agency at campaign times.
• Provide training on recruiting systems for all recruiting personnel.
Emmigrated to NZ from UK
n/r (Self-employed)

(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Philanthropy industry)

July 1995 — July 1995 (1 month)

Moved down under for a better lifestyle

James Butler’s Education

The University of Glamorgan

Higher National Diploma , Business & Finance , 1992 — 1994

13 Distinctions, 3 Merits over 2 years.
St Lawrence College

1980 — 1984

Additional Information

James Butler’s Websites:

James Butler’s Interests:

Mountain Biking, Akl MTB club member, Change Management, Project Management: (PMI / AGILE / Prince2), Listening to PODCASTS, My Favourite Social Media Tools: I've taken the mashup approach.... I'm using Twitter / Plaxo / Facebook / Flikr / Utube / digg / Google reader / spock / Shozu and linking them together with hellotxt.com (via my mobile and/or Web) to centralise latest activity posting to... plaxo / twitter / linkedin / facebook. I'm also using friendfeed to create a "lifestream" to amalgamate my delicious / digg / blog / flikr / google reader favourites / twitter & utube postings. I'm using shozu.com on the mobile to post images to flikr and video to UTube & my blog whilst out and about I'm also utilising Spock & Linqia to get my profile out there....

James Butler’s Groups:

Project Management Institute (PMI), LinkedIn Open Networker (LION), MPUG Member (NZ Chapter), TopLinked.com, Wright Hand Power Forum member, Fellow groupie of the Connections Show & Manager Tools. Also a member of Flat Bush Crime Watch Patrol, member of Auckland Mountain Bike Club