Peter Wilkins
Program Manager at MIT (retired)
Shepherdstown, West Virginia, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeter Wilkins is a retired Program Manager and IT leader with over four decades of hands-on experience delivering technology programs across life sciences, healthcare, higher education, and government. He combines an MBA and PMP certification with deep operational chops—having run IT organizations with multi-million-dollar budgets and teams of 50–60—while also building PMOs and teaching project management at the graduate level. Known for pragmatic problem solving, he led implementations that recovered significant federal reimbursements and standardized enterprise project methodologies. In retirement he remains technically engaged as a back-end/DevOps contributor to the long-running Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) open-source project, focusing on build compatibility, legacy Java support, and publishing infrastructure. Based in Shepherdstown, WV, he pairs strategic program leadership with a rare willingness to dive into code and build artifacts when needed.
21 years of coding experience
30 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Management Information Systems, MBA, Management Information Systems at University at Albany School of BusinessBS, Business Administration, BS, Business Administration at State University of New York at Albany
Github Skills (13)
compiler10
javas10
compile-time10
compilation10
compile10
java10
build-automation9
file-manipulation9
file-operations9
filepath9
api8
apim8
dependency-management8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
VUE/VUE
Jun 2004 - Feb 2021
Visual Understanding Environment
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:73 commits, 3 PRs, 1 comment in 16 years 11 months
Contributions summary:Peter's contributions center around maintaining and updating the Visual Understanding Environment (VUE) project, specifically focusing on resolving build and compilation issues, fixing incorrect file paths, and ensuring compatibility with older Java versions (1.4). The user also addresses issues related to the inclusion and removal of dependencies and the introduction of a Java coding standards checker (JCSC) tool. The commits also show work related to the publishing infrastructure, including updating external libraries like okiOSID-2.0.jar and HiveRepositoryPublish-1.0.jar.
understanding
mitodl/PyLmod
Feb 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:124 commits, 34 PRs, 89 pushes in 1 year 1 month
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