Summary
Peter Reid is an experienced IT leader and educator with 14+ years in senior infrastructure and DevOps roles and a long career managing enterprise Windows and Linux environments for insurance and higher-education institutions. As Assistant Professor and former Director of IT Infrastructure, he blends hands-on skills—Ansible, Docker, VMware, Azure, Cisco—with curriculum development and student mentorship across undergraduate and graduate computer science and cybersecurity programs. He has driven cultural and technical change initiatives including leadership development, peer recognition, IaC adoption, and cloud IaaS proofs of concept, and has led teams through mergers, large-scale migrations, and operational standardization. Known for pragmatic automation that reduced delivery time and downtime, he pairs academic rigor (PhD studies in Information Technology/Cyber Engineering) with decades of production systems experience grounded in early Navy technical service.
14 years of coding experience
32 years of employment as a software developer
HS, HS at Dennis-Yarmouth Regional
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology/Cyber Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Technology/Cyber Engineering at University of the Cumberlands
Bachelor's Degree, Physics / Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Physics / Computer Science at Worcester State College
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration and Management at Bryant University