Brian K Toren

Skills:

• Project Management

• Multimedia Presentations,
• Web Design,
• Web Support
• Management Planning.
• Futures Forecasting and Planning

Recent Experience:

Presently on the Community Faculty at MetroState University. Classes include:

• Understanding and Using the Internet
• Introduction to Microcomputer Applications.

Brian maintains his own web site and the Minnesota Futurists web site.

Prior Experience

Brian works with with Fissure Corporation. He has led several workshops in project management. He recently created and published an online course on Managing Change.

Brian became an associate of Earl C. Joseph at Anticipatory Sciences Inc. (ASI) upon retirement from Unisys in 1990. As an associate he consulted with companies and assisted with midrange and long-range planning. Organizations with which ASI consulted included Methodist Hospital, the University of Wisconsin at Menominee and the Selby Community Development Corporation among others. Also as an associate, Brian helped Earl facilitate several workshops on organizational planning.

Prior to 1990 Brian worked for Sperry Corporation (now Unisys Corp.) for 34 years. The early years were spent as a programmer where he sized and wrote programs for several different computer systems. The last 24 years was spent in management. Management experiences included managing a Sperry Univac site at the Anti-ICBM Site at Kwajalein, Marshall Islands and the National Aviation FAA Experimentation Center (NAFEC) at Atlantic City, New Jersey. Brian managed several domestic and International proposal development projects for Sperry in the 70s and 80s. This included the sizing and schedule estimation for several software development projects that were part of the proposed work efforts. In 1983 Brian transferred into an organization at Sperry that developed and implemented telecommunications systems. Here he managed a team comprised of individuals from the U.S. and Great Britain that performed test and evaluation of Sperry¹s implementation of the IBM SNA protocol in Sperry Front End Processors. During this period until his retirement from Unisys, Brian was a Group manager and a project manager for several projects that addressed the implementation of telecommunications equipment and services in the US, Canada and Australia. His final year at Sperry was as Chief Engineer on a project to design a custom telecommunications system for J.C. Penny

Publications:

Brian also writes columns for the Minnesota Futurist newsletter ³Future Trends.² He has written columns for the Minnesota Futurist quarterly journal ³Futurics,² and the Minnesota General Systems Chapter ³newsletter ³Systems Trends.² Brian has two articles published in the ³Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Future.² He created a multimedia interactive beginning reader for children 4 to 6 years old using Macromedia's Director 5

Education:

Brian has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree from the University of Minnesota. He is an alumnus of the Carlson School of Business Manaegment.