Department of Computer Science and Computer Engineering
504 J. B. Hunt Building
1 University of Arkansas
Fayetteville, AR 72701
Phone: (479) 575-6197
Fax: (479)-575-5339
Kent Watson
Kent has over 20 years of diverse IT experience ranging from large enterprise to startup and digital agency to mid-market.
Kent has deep technical experience in private and cloud infrastructure planning as well as over 14 years of development and software architecture experience on an enterprise scale.
Hands-on project work includes application, web, and mobile projects with thousands of users, 100,000+ employees, and millions of weekly page views with enterprise integration including SAP HR & FICO, retail club e-commerce back-ends, and Active Directory automation. Additionally Kent developed and architected the Walmart Corporate website and homegrown CMS with over 5 million page views a week, developed the framework behind Walmart’s social company intranet with over 900,000 users, and developed and hosted the web services for the Sam’s Club mobile e-commerce suite with an install base of over 3 million apps.
Kent currently plays a technology strategy role transforming a traditional logistics service provider for top US brands into a technology based logistics company with a thirst for disruptive innovation that can be applied in many commercial and industrial applications.