Robert D. Watkins - Project Manager

PMP (PMI Certified) Project Management consultant with 9 yrs of Fortune 500 and 8 yrs IT technical project planning and implementation experience seeks a position fully utilizing strong customer service attitude, exceptional organizational ability and communication skills.
I am seasoned professional, with outstanding project planning, execution, monitoring and resource balancing skills with ability to support multiple simultaneous projects in a matrix organizational structure.
-Excel at communicating with stakeholders to provide accurate reporting and information regarding the ongoing projects and initiatives.
-Experienced in coordinating, negotiating and motivating outside vendors and off-shore resources in support of timeline and IT project deliverables.
-Effectively training, motivating and mentoring onsite and offshore junior managers, engineers, developers and technicians.
-Superior coordination of user acceptance testing of final IT infrastructure and software development deliverables through iterative evolutions.

Specialties
IT Project Management - Infrastructure, Scripting, Migrations, Process Definition and Development, Offshore Resource Management and Coordination, relationship economy, relationship capital, values

Experiences

• American Sentinel University (ASU) / American College of Computer & Information Sciences (ACCIS) : 09/2007 - Present
  Project & Business Management Full Time Student
  I am currently taking a Career Retraining sabbatical to retool and complete my formal education via American Sentinel University (ASU) / American College of Computer & Information Sciences (ACCIS). Both online colleges associated with Alabama University.
  
  My Focus will be on Business and Project Management ensuring my capabilities to deliver maximum tangible Project ROI to current and future clients and upon my return. These capabilities will include the newest Web 2.0 tools and processes supporting cost effective remote capabilities and creating more efficiencies for my clients and for me.
• Together We Can Change the World, Inc. D.B.A. My Power Mall : 03/2007 - Present
  MyPowerMalls.com [My Power Mall Independant Contractor]
  My Current Activities are:
  - Authoring/Creating content for MyPowerMalls.com
  - Web 2.0 Marketing via this domain, Blogs and other media outlets
  - Strategic Planning/Cross Promotion with other domains
  - Supporting Ginny Dye and my personally sponsored Malls using my Project Management & IT experience
  
  * My Power Mall started in March 2007 and to date has 116,000+ Independent Mall Owners like myself giving away Business Malls to others in 229 countries. (March 2008)
• Group Technology, Inc : 10/2007 - 12/2007
  Web Designer / PM
  Strategic Web Content and Design Consulting, including Search Engine Optimization plan for the creation of a site to support Group Technology's business growth strategy.
• BDG, LLC. : 07/2007 - 08/2007
  Sr. Project Management Consultant - US Government ALUI Project RFP Response
  - Develop Project Management/Agile SDCL Approach Response to RFP
  - Participate in RFP Oral Q&A Interviews hosted by House of Reps
  - Co-develop rigorous questionnaire to elaborate RFP/Project scope
  - Co-develop portions of second and third responses to RFP
  - Outline Risks related to project
• Group Technology, Inc : 04/2007 - 07/2007
  Senior Project Manager PMI Certified PMP
  SAP Netweaver XI technology - UPXI (Unilever Private eXchange Infrastructure)
  - Coordinate Partner Onboarding Inputs
  - Develop Sub-Project plans for Trigo/Transora eXchange Infrastructure
  - Stakeholder Reporting of Daily Progress
• Group Technology Inc. : 01/2003 - 03/2007
  Senior Project Manager PMI Certified PMP Consultant
  -Completed feasibility study of vendor outsourced DR solutions for MS Exchange and Blackberry for 25,000 email clients in North and Latin America. Final recommendation supported by Global and Regional Architects.
  
  -Reviewed, re-engineered, negotiated Disaster Recovery Policies and Procedures to support multi-regional re-organization and creation of a unified contingency response team across North and Latin America. Team members were geographically separated throughout discussion and negotiation processes.
  
  -Managed Tape Consolidation RFP and subsequent vendor contract negotiations. Vendor proposed designs were to support 2000+ servers’ data protection requirements. Drafted and presented business cases based on final responses and architect recommendations. Delivered two finalist proposals to stakeholders featuring a consolidated Virtual Tape disk array and secondary LTO3 tape architecture.
• Group Technology,Inc. : 01/2001 - 01/2003
  IT Project Manager Consultant
  -Initiated, designed, planned and executed processes & procedures for migration of 15,000+ email clients in North America. Clients were migrated from old systems at a max rate of 1200 users per 4 day weekly cycle.
  
  -Managed 8 Indian offshore resources, for a full year, to deliver North American scripted applications supporting 10,000+ desktop deployments. Created and delivered scripting training to offshore resources.
  
  -Managed QA of packaging outputs prior to deployment. Managed, scheduled and coordinated User Acceptance and IT applications group testing facilities.
  
  -Drafted policies, procedures and processes for onshore requirements gathering and scripting submission. Transferred inputs to offshore resources resulting in delivery of quality application packages.
• AKI Corp (Sole Proprietorship) : 12/1998 - 01/2002
  Corporate Business Manager
  -Managed corporate websites to ensure future contracts. Managed marketing, accounting and computed all corporate quarterly and annual tax filings.
• Syngress Media : 09/2000 - 10/2001
  Technical Writer/Co-Author
  -Contributing Author of content to aide certification candidates in learning the in-depth info required to pass their CCNA and MCSE 2000 exams.
  
  > “MCSE Migrating from Windows NT to Windows 2000 Study Guide” (Exam 70-222)
  >"CCNA Test Yourself Practice Exams”, 2nd Edition (Exam 640-507)
• Marathon Oil : 01/2000 - 12/2000
  QA Project Manager Consultant
  -Managed the QA processing of approximately 1700 scripted applications for automated deployment, most of which were in-house or legacy software.
  
  -Coordinated the processing of outputs from 20+ scripters; 4 of which were QA team direct reports and tasked with the UAT and Quality control relative to these scripts. Project outputs supported the deployment of applications to 10,000+ desktops.
• NovaCare Rehabilitation : 03/1999 - 09/1999
  Project Manager/Engineer
  -Evaluated and Performed Y2K remediation of hardware and software as required across 56 external offices and main office. Developed and deployed appropriate backup plans and disaster recovery processes and procedures.
  
  -Diagnosed and documented network issues, designed and implemented project plan to resolve as necessary. Coordinated installs, upgrades and consolidations of new and redundant databases in remote offices.
• Kraft Foods : 02/1997 - 03/1999
  Project Engineer - Consultant
  -Managed plant communications network upgrades in parallel with Y2K Remediation and Compliance project execution. Coordinated vendor upgrades of plant mixing software and Allen Bradley PLC logic controllers.
  
  -Supervised fiber network installations during manufacturing plant physical expansion.
• MI Corporation : 02/1997 - 03/1999
  Project Engineer
  - Managed ISP dialup customer base of 4,300 clients. Planned and implemented backup strategy for servers hosting 400 websites.
  
  -Performed due diligence on transfer of ISP backbone provider to more cost effective vendor. Planned and executed parallel IP environment to minimize customer affects during migration.
  
  -Coordinated technical aspects of divesture of ISP division to Mindspring via customer base acquisition. Completion of this project resulted in 400,000.00 infusion to core business.
• U.S. Navy : 10/1990 - 10/1991
  Advanced Medical Lab Technician (C - School)
• U.S. Navy : 10/1989 - 10/1990
  Hospital Corpsman (A - School)

Education

• American Sentinel University, Birmingham : 01/2006 - 12/2008
  BSBA - In Progress, Business Administration
• American College of Computer and Information Sciences : 01/2004 - 12/2005
  BSBA, Business Administration
• Northern Arizona University : 01/1982 - 12/1995
  BS, Anatomy Physiology, Chemistry, General Ed
• Brigham Young University - Idaho : 01/1981 - 12/1982
  Biology, French, General Ed