rdwatkins on February 12th, 2008
Welcome to the beginning of my eternal student blog. I know I am bit old to be formalizing this but, now seems a fine time to be learning how to blog and start passing on to a younger generation some of what my life lessons have taught me.
In construction, law enforcement, military and now IT project management I have learned a great deal from being in several industries and having played many roles. With that background I am finding that which I am formally studying is making much more sense and I have points of reference to attach my thought to. It is a great benefit to be able to think back to working as a consultant at Unilever or Kraft foods and be able to correlate current course content to particular situations. This gives me mental practice formulating a relevant future responses for clients.
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rdwatkins on June 15th, 2002
RD Watkins inks new contract with Unilever for Project Management / Coordination
Unilever North America Global Infrastructure request Robert D. Watkins to assist with several ongoing projects. These projects include the Manufacturing for the Millennium SAP Project, Business Objects Upgrades, Gentran Migration from NT to Unix migration and Legacy Integration, Targeter for the Web enabled AMPs sales, Video Conferencing Production Turnover, Manugistics Enterprise Forecasting as well as the preparation for various Sales Office infrastructure build-out projects. These Projects will be managed for the Home an Personal Care Business Unit.
RD Watkins has been employed prior to this contract with Unilever in a Technical Project Manager role assisting in development of Wise Scripts for delivery of business applications via Microsoft SMS and for 8 locations / business unit deployments in 2001.
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