Joseph Butson

Current

Senior Project Manager at Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
Partner at Agile Practices Iowa

Past

Project Manager at Aviva Investors North America
Project Manager at TIAA-CREF
Consultant - Process Engineer at Principal Financial Group

Project Consultant - Process Mentor at Wells Fargo
Application Engineer at Wells Fargo Technology Infrastructure Group
Senior Businesss Analyst at Bank of Montreal

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Joseph Butson’s Summary

Introduce, improve and innovate through the iterative software development process at Fortune 100 firms.

Mentor and lead development staff in adoption of new technologies, tools and methodologies.

Joseph Butson’s Experience

Senior Project Manager

Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC

(Public Company; WFC; Financial Services industry)

June 2009 — Present (6 months)

Manage enterprise projects aligned with Community Bank initiative [Wells and Wachovia merger] based in Charlotte, NC.

Work closely with Program and Project teams to align requirements, interface dependencies and deliverables.
Partner

Agile Practices Iowa

(Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2009 — Present (8 months)

Agile Practices Iowa works with companies who are moving from traditional project and software development to incremental and iterative delivery.

We help management and teams adapt through an "agile pull" within the organization. Pulling change through model project adoption prepares the organization for the change and manages the inevitable disruption resulting from a new development paradigm.

Agile Practices Iowa has strategic partners in the software industry, staffing and training sectors to ease the adoption of agile practices.
Project Manager

Aviva Investors North America

(Investment Management industry)

June 2008 — April 2009 (11 months)

Manage the delivery of Alternative Investment [Structured Products] Trading System.
Project Manager

TIAA-CREF

(Non-Profit; Financial Services industry)

April 2008 — June 2008 (3 months)

As a consultant to the Institutional Client Service, Pension Product Management Group, I assist in product development and project delivery. Process improvement is also an important goal of the group.
Consultant - Process Engineer

Principal Financial Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; PFG; Financial Services industry)

May 2007 — April 2008 (1 year )

Plan and architect the development and delivery of the Principal Unified Process, a tailored version of the Rational Unified Process, with an emphasis on agile teams, as well as off shore resources.

Responsible for solution design, enterprise domain modeling, methodology definition, and creation of a variety of service-related artifacts.

Mentor all software disciplines [PM, Designer, Systems Analyst, Quality Assurance] on concurrent strategic projects in iterative and incremental development.

Design and deliver RUP based training courses for all RUP disciplines, with a focus on Analysis and Design

Developing the people, processes and architectures required to achieve and sustain integration excellence.
Project Consultant - Process Mentor

Wells Fargo

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Banking industry)

November 2006 — April 2007 (6 months)

Plan, organize and manage the contract negotiation between WFF Contract Counsel and the Third Party’s in-house and external attorneys. These discussions included the Master Service Agreement and Statement of Work.

Manage the Technical and Business Infrastructure requirements and design process between WF Information Security, WF Information Systems, WF Business Subject Matter Experts and Third Party Vendor.

Manage internal project staff and third party vendor relationships to insure communication, human resource, training, technical and implementation goals and tasks were well documented and understood by all participants.
Application Engineer

Wells Fargo Technology Infrastructure Group

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; WFC; Banking industry)

February 2006 — November 2006 (10 months)

Developed project plan, project iteration and risk management plans. Lead and facilitate iterative application development meetings with cross-functional design teams.

Analyze credit underwriting business process flow and create high-level deliverables using RUP analysis and design techniques.

Review and approve Use Cases created by a cross-functional team of subject matter experts.

Use ad-hoc business and formal UML constructs to create analysis and design models for development teams.

Coordinate the design of a Publish and Subscribe enterprise messaging solution with system architects, technical leads and software delivery management.
Senior Businesss Analyst

Bank of Montreal

(Financial Services industry)

2003 — 2004 (1 year )