My name Robert D. Watkins (RDWatkins for my networking groups and Bob Watkins in recent contracts) and I am a PMP Project Manager and owner of ContractMCSE.com as well as RDWatkins.com. I am currently on sabbatical from my consulting business in order to complete my degree and gain additional formal studies as a Project Manager. I am based in Cumberland Maryland and will consider Virtual Project Management opportunities during this study period. Once complete with my BSBA degree, I will be relocating to the Washington DC Metro / Northern Virginia area to resume my Project Management Consulting business.I am interested in Project Management positions only. My technical skills and experience are a great adjunct to my PM work in Information Technologies but, I intend to progress further in the management space exclusively.
I am also finding and networking with the best of the best in IT via Social and Business Networks such as LinkedIn, Facebook, Ecademy, Viadeo, Plaxo, Myspace, Twitter, Spock and others that are fast growing into my best source of future business. Click on any of the above links to view my profiles and request connection if you feel that I could help you in your IT pursuits or business.
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Career Objectives:
- Complete my BSBA degree online with ASU (American Sentinel University)
- COMPLETED July 13th, 2007 – Unilever contracts lasting since January of 2001. Many simultaneous projects across several IT disciplines.
- COMPLETED April 29th, 2005 – pre-requisites for candidacy and obtain the PMP PMI (Project Management Institute) certification. (look me up in the PMI registry click here – use my last name)
Experience:
I have been in the IT consulting field since early 1997. Below are my primary consulting contracts since that time:
- Unilever Global Infrastructure Organization – Trumbull, CT. – Technical/Global Project Manager assignments include: Data Warehousing, Global Service Request, Sun Identity Manager, Centralized Messaging migrations, Web Portal implementation, the Project Scripting Lab, Wise scripting consultant, Digital India Manager/Mentor, QA test planning and coordination consultant. My current contract is as a Customer Engagement Specialist supporting the Customer Engagement Management Group in implementing a portfolio of various infrastructure and application development projects. This is being accomplished during a full reorganization to a Matrix Project Resource model with cross functional impact to all projects.
- Marathon Oil – Findlay, OH. – Wise scripting consultant, project QA team manager and User Acceptance Testing coordinator.
- NovaCare – Pittsburgh, PA. (territory included multiple offices in IL., PA. and MD.) – network engineer and project manager for Y2k remediation, database consolidation, disaster recovery initiatives.
- Kraft Foods – Winchester, VA. – Y2k remediation for 13 eastern plants project implementation team lead (from the plant floor equipment PLCs to the desktops), manufacturing plant build-out IT support.
Certifications:
I currently hold the PMI (Project Management Institute) PMP certification in addition to the following technical certifications: Comptia’s IT Project+ (IT Project Management) MCSE NT 4.0, CCNA, MCP+I and A+ certifications.
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