Bill Mckinney
Executive Director at New Kensington Community Development Corporation (NKCDC)
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
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Top SchoolBill Mckinney is an executive leader and program developer with over 25 years of experience advancing social justice, equity, and community resilience across non-profits, academia, and public institutions. As Executive Director of NKCDC and founder of Innovative Solutions Collective, he combines strategic planning, research-led program design, and hands-on capacity building to drive measurable impact for youth, reentry, and community health initiatives. He has led research and evaluation teams at organizations like The Food Trust and the Howard Samuels Center, translating ethnography and public policy analysis into practical interventions and organizational reform. Unusually for a community-focused executive, he also contributes to open source research infrastructure—adding BibTeX export and robust download handling to the Dataverse project—demonstrating a fluency with technical systems that strengthens his evidence-driven approach. Based in Philadelphia, he pairs a PhD in Anthropology with practical nonprofit management credentials to bridge rigorous inquiry and front-line program delivery.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Non Profit Management, Certificate of Completion, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management, Non Profit Management, Certificate of Completion, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management at La Salle UniversityBachelor's degree, Anthropology, Bachelor's degree, Anthropology at Cleveland State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Anthropology at Temple UniversityMaster of Applied Anthropology, Anthropology, Master of Applied Anthropology, Anthropology at University of MarylandCertificate, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management, Certificate, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management at Drexel University Goodwin College of Professional Studies
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Github Skills (8)
bibtex10
javas10
java10
dataverse10
api-design9
restful-api9
rest-api9
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
IQSS/dataverse
Mar 2016 - Jan 2017
Open source research data repository software
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:46 commits, 6 PRs, 40 pushes in 9 months
Contributions summary:Bill contributed to the Dataverse project by adding functionality for exporting dataset citations in BibTeX format and integrating it across multiple API endpoints and UI components. They implemented new methods in `DatasetServiceBean` and `DatasetPage` to generate and download BibTeX citations. Furthermore, the user modified the API to include BibTeX citations in the file download bundle. They also made code changes that involved handling file metadata, avoiding concurrent modification exceptions during file uploads, and modifying author delimiters within citations.
data-repository
bmckinney/jazz-graph
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Contributions:23 commits, 63 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
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