Brian K Toren

Skills:

Distance Learning
Project Management
Management Planning
Futures Forecasting and Planning
Accounting
Web Design and development
Web Support
Grandfather

Recent Experience:

Presently on the Community Faculty at Metro State University.

Presently teaching Introduction to Microcomputer Applications

Brian works with with Fissure Corporation. He has led several workshops in project management. He recently created and published the Web page for an online course on Managing Change for a New Jersey Bank

Prior Experience

Brian became an associate of Earl C Joseph at Anticipatory Sciences Inc (ASI) in St Paul MN 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. As an Associate Brian assisted Earl facilitate several workshops on organizational planning and gave presentations nationwide of the future

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. He helped write an assembler for a missile guidance computer and wrote and maintained wrote several Operation Systems for missile control and gun fire control systems Brian wrote a simulator for a maneuverable warhead, designed a browser for the companies library and designed an e-reader. 24 years were 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 Sperry's 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 wrote columns for the Minnesota Futurist newsletter, Future Trends. He has written columns for the Minnesota Futurist quarterly journal of Futurics and the Minnesota General Systems Chapter newsletter, Systems Trends. Brian has two articles published in the Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Future. He created a multimedia interactive beginning reader for children 4 to 6 years old using Macromedia's Director 5.6 and 8. He was listed in Who's who in American and in the Midwest.

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 Management.