Mr. Wilkins is an outstanding Program leader and results-driven manager with domestic and international experience developing multi-million dollar and multi-year budgets, managing contracts and administering complex capital improvement programs. He is especially skilled in exacting organizational effectiveness and program success through a mission-focused, positive integration of projects with the people who run them.
For Luster, Mr. Wilkins serves as its Director-Western Region. He orchestrates the delivery of both PM/CM Project Teams and/or individual subject matter project controls experts to meet client needs. In addition, he directly serves as Program Manager, Project Leader or Strategist/Trainer for select clients.
With superior presentation and speaking skills, Mr. Wilkins is able to lead project teams to success, conduct public meetings and steer negotiating sessions to mutually satisfactory solutions. He also acts as the firm’s specialist on commercial property redevelopment, base relocation and reutilization projects, including Enhanced Use Lease Programs, Public-Private Partnerships and optimizing facility assets and workforce development.
Highlighting Mr. Wilkins’s nearly 30-year career is his tenure as Site Manager for the Hunters Point Shipyard Redevelopment Program. A mixed use development of 2000 homesites and commercial space. He led a team of contractors, specialty consultants and CM staff from the entitlements phase through the completion of demolition and grading.
He is also widely recognized for his service as Program Director of the Environmental Cleanup Program at the Presidio National Park in San Francisco. In that position, he developed and implemented the Base Cleanup Plan (BCP); developed and administered a $100 million budget; negotiated cleanup and abatement actions with U.S. and California EPA, NPS, and the Regional Water Quality Control Board; and administered cleanup actions at the former Letterman Hospital. While working with the Presidio project, he earned several awards for applying innovative technologies and thereby saving over $10 million in the environmental cleanup of the former military installation.
Mr. Wilkins has worked as a business process management consultant in the manufacturing industry with clients such as Coors, Eli Lilly, Goodyear and INCO Mines, and BMW. With numerous clients, Mr. Wilkins has been instrumental in identifying operational inefficiencies and recommending Best Management Practices to save millions in operating costs.
Mr. Wilkins retired from the U.S. Army Reserve with the rank of Lt. Colonel, after a long and distinguished 25-year career in which he completed an eleven month tour as the Base Engineer and Director of Public Works at Bagram Air Force Base, solely responsible for the facility development and management of the largest military base in Afghanistan.
Mr. Wilkins is known as a person of integrity and dependability. He is well regarded as a planner, engineer, administrator and a skilled diplomat. David was officially commended for nurturing and building the key political and community relationships that positively affected the outcome of the Presidio Environmental Cleanup Program.
