Robert Higgins

Current

Owner at East Asia Portal, Ltd

Past

Instructor at Keio University
Vice President at Fenestra Window and Door, Inc.

Education

Fort Lewis College

Connections

40 connections

Industry

Architecture & Planning

Websites

Robert Higgins’s Summary

Robert Higgins Fenestrator, PMP, Entrepreneur and Digital Coach. He is comfortable working in a Global Environment. He has solid Daily Operations Management and Project Management skills. As a Vice President he has had the opportunity to work on hundreds of high profile Residential Homes and Commercial Buildings.

In addition to his extensive Architectural Project background, he has Initiated, Planned, Executed and Closed a variety of projects. For example; Financial, Training, Technology and Market Research. Robert Higgins has been working in and out of China and Japan for the last 8 years.

He has a balanced personality of Entrepreneurial Risk Taking and Consensus Building. He is experienced in working with complex teams of distributed people. Robert is skilled at provoking teams to visualize solutions.

Having lived the West meets East life he can appreciate the subtle difference interacting with people from different backgrounds. He believes in providing team members with expression channels, and being nimble enough to rapidly take advantage of positive risk events.

"I especially enjoy complex structures and communicating the essential information."

Currently, he is residing in Tokyo. He is deeply interested in Asian Culture. He is always improving his bi-lingual Japanese reading, writing and conversational skills.

In addition to his PMP credential he holds a Bachelor of Arts in Cultural Anthropology from Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado. He is an expert at Fenestration. As a practitioner of Project Management he is enthusiastic about promoting good project skills and sharing his knowledge of Projects and People.

He has held Seminars, Workshops and Coached. He has taught "Introduction to Project Management". He has given Presentations for The Project Management Institutes Global Congress. Please contact him directly for information on cast glass, bronze windows, workshops, digital coaching and other opportunities.

Robert Higgins’s Specialties:

Fenestration Master Designer of Door and Window Openings, Architectural Projects, Project Management, Planning, Communication, Procurement, Network Diagramming, Sales, World Wide Web, Digital Coaching.

Robert Higgins’s Experience

Owner

East Asia Portal, Ltd

(Architecture & Planning industry)

January 2005 — Present (5 years )
Instructor

Keio University

(Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

October 2009 — November 2009 (2 months)

Coordinated, planned and taught at Keio University Hiyoshi for Fundamentals of Project Management in their Graduate Program. Keio University is one of the most prestigious Universities in Japan.
Vice President

Fenestra Window and Door, Inc.

(Architecture & Planning industry)

January 1997 — December 2004 (8 years )