James J. Peter

Instructor

B.S., Electrical Engineering
M.S., Computer Science
M.S., Technical Management

Jim Peter is an engineer at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, MD. Currently, he is working at a Defense Agency site assisting Program and Project Managers with systems engineering process improvement and technical reviews.

Previously, Mr. Peter performed information systems engineering, planning, scheduling, analysis, and facilitation for APL’s national “Commercial Vehicles Information Systems and Networks” program, and was the author of that program’s Guide to Program & Project Planning and Guide to Phase Planning and Tracking.

For 10 years, Mr. Peter supervised the Program Planning and Scheduling Section in APL’s Space Department. One major aerospace projects group staff was responsible for designing project reporting systems; generating Work Breakdown Structures and Work Packages; coordinating the creation and updating of critical path activity networks; coordinating fabrication efforts; preparing detailed and summary status reports; and presenting both the methodology and those reports to customers.

He also handled special assignments such as leading the Space Department’s team to improve the process and infrastructure for developing proposals.  Several years ago Mr. Peter was APL’s “Loaned Executive” to the United Way for four months and raised $2.1M.

Mr. Peter has presented management methodology papers at the annual conferences of the Performance Management Association; Cost/Schedule Correction Factors from Augustine’s Laws at the Tenth Annual Integrated Program Management Conference; and lead a panel discussion on Work Packages that Really Work at the Sixth Annual National Cost Schedule Performance Management Conference.

Since 1992, Mr. Peter has guest lectured in the JHU Technical Management Master’s Degree Program, in the area of project planning (emphasis on Work Breakdown Structures), and scheduling (emphasis on tools for critical path networks).  From 2003-2006, Mr. Peter taught a project management overview course for the Hopkins Business of Medicine Program, for a Defense Agency, and most recently at the Secret Service Training Center.