Joomla! site syndication http://rdwatkins.com 2008-05-09T20:06:19+01:00 http://rdwatkins.com http://rdwatkins.com/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2004-06-12T11:54:06+01:00 http://rdwatkins.com http://rdwatkins.com/news/front-page-news/pmi-certified-pmp-project-management-professional-certification.html PMI Certified PMP Project Manager and owner of RDWatkins.com (http://www.RDWatkins.com), Bob Watkins, is available for IT project consulting and is seeking contract, consulting or full-time positions in the Connecticut, Northern Virginia, Baltimore and Washington DC Metro areas. My permanent residence is located in Cumberland, MD. Download my Resume here... (pmp-resume/project-manager-resume---pmi-certified-pmp.html)I am interested in Project Management positions only. My Microsoft and Cisco networking technical skills and experience are a great adjunct to my Project Management work in Information Technologies. I intend to progress further in the IT Project Management space exclusively.Career Objectives: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 (https://www.pmi.org/CertApp/Registry.aspx) - use my last name) Complete my BSBA degree online with ASU (American Sentinel University) (http://www.americansentinel.edu/). Finding new Project Management contracts and networking opportunities for my business. 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) (http://www.comptia.org/certification/project/default.aspx) MCSE NT 4.0 (Microsoft), CCNA (Cisco), MCP+I and A+ certifications. Welcome again! Please contribute any comments or suggestion to the Webmaster (mailto:consultantpm@gmail.com). Thank you,Robert Watkins