About
rdwatkins on April 12th, 2009
RD Watkins is a PMI Certified PMP Senior Project Manager with experience in information technology infrastructure, IS development, user migrations and processes related initiatives. Using a firm technical foundation built on Microsoft, Cisco and Comptia certifications Robert can quickly develop project core knowledge and adeptly communicate across all levels of stakeholders and resources.
Past clients seek and endorse his calm demeanor and ability to navigate the sometimes rough waters and clarify loosely defined, high profile projects. His ability to assess the cultural and interpersonal landscape make collaboration and teamwork a natural and frequent occurrence in his projects.
Consulting assignments and permanent positions in Northern Virginia and Washington, DC Metro area fit well with his family objectives.
Career Milestones and Objectives:
- Finding new contracts and/or permanent assignments and opportunities in the project management, virtual team collaboration and consultative space.
- [COMPLETED] BSBA degree online with (American Sentinel University).
- [COMPLETED] 2009 Project Management Institute PMP re-certification/renewal PDUs
- [COMPLETED] April 29th, 2005 – pre-requisites for candidacy and obtained the PMI PMP certification issued by the Project Management Institute. (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: Disaster Recovery Enhancements, Storage and Tape Design and Deployment, IT Process & Policy Assessment and Redesign, 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 Senior Project Manager supporting the Customer Engagement Management Group in implementing a portfolio of various infrastructure and application development projects. This is being accomplished during an outsourcing assessment activity with cross functional impact to all projects. A Memorandum of Understanding is in place and additional due diligence with HP is in progress now.
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 supports.
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 (Microsoft), CCNA (Cisco), MCP+I and A+ certifications. Welcome again! Please contribute any comments or suggestion to the Webmaster.
