User:Peter von Stackelberg
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Peter von Stackelberg has extensive professional and academic experience as a futurist, strategic thinker, and writer as well as a project manager.
He is a futurist with Social Technologies, researching and writing about global lifestyles and technology futures. He is also an expert at a variety of futures research and analysis methods (including environmental scanning and analysis, technology forecasting and scenario development) and has presented at numerous workshops, seminars and conferences. Peter has also applied his expertise with web application design to the development of a number of futures oriented websites and pages and computer-based futures tools and processes.
Peter is an adjunct instructor teaching Strategic Management of Technology and Innovation at the State University of New York – Alfred State College of Technology in Alfred, New York. He is also a member of the advisory board for the Computer Animation program at Alfred State.
He was the Editor-in-Chief with Shaping Tomorrow, a web-based source of information about the future and the designer/developer of an online Technology Forecasting & Assessment course with the University of Houston’s College of Technology.
Peter has worked on a wide range of futures-related projects for clients that include Lockheed-Martin, Honda R&D North America, Shell, Texaco and Saudi Aramco. He has more than a decade of experience doing futures research, scenario development, and technology forecasting and assessment.
In addition to his work as a futurist, Peter poetry has been published in the Bayousphere, a literary and art magazine published by the University of Houston-Clear Lake. He is also an artist, using 2-D and 3-D software and techniques in his artwork. That artwork has been accepted for display a number of web-based art galleries, including DigitalArt.org and e-Frontier.com. He has presented about the use of computer technology in art to undergraduate and graduate classes at the University of Houston-Clear Lake in Houston, Texas and Alfred State College in Alfred, New York.
From February, 2002 until June, 2004, Peter was the web project coordinator/webmaster with the University of Houston-Clear Lake (UHCL). His role included project management of a major Oracle portal implementation and the development of strategy to manage the changes the introduction of the new technology would bring to the campus.
During the last half of 2004, he also worked on a project basis with a consortium of 30 universities to help them develop strategies for the implementation of portal technology. As well, he authored an online course about technology forecasting and assessment for the University of Houston College of Technology.
Prior to joining the UHCL, Peter was a business analyst and futures consultant to numerous major corporations, including BPAmoco (former Amoco Petroleum), ExxonMobil, Texas Commerce Bank (Avesta Division), and others.
Peter has a Master of Science in Studies of the Futures Studies from the University of Houston – Clear Lake. His major focus in that program was on methodologies for technology forecasting and assessment; analysis of how social, technological, economic, political and environmental change impacts a wide variety of systems; and facilitating technological change within organizations.
He also has a Bachelor of Applied Arts in Journalism from Ryerson Polytechnical University in Toronto, Canada and almost 15 years experience as a journalist writing for daily newspapers and magazines and almost 30 years as a freelance magazine writer.
Education
Master of Arts, Humanities – 2003 & 2004 (Incomplete)
University of Houston at Clear Lake – Houston, Texas
Master of Science, Studies of the Future – 1993
University of Houston at Clear Lake – Houston, Texas
Bach. of Applied Arts, Journalism – 1974
Ryerson University – Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Publications
· Psych Ward (poem), Bayousphere 2005, University of Houston-Clear Lake
· Mountain in Moonlight (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/44406/abstract-surreal/mountain-in-moonlight/
· The Ruin (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/44405/abstract-surreal/the-ruin/
· Rage, (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/44404/abstract-surreal/rage/
· Though a Bitter Wind Blows, (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/43725/abstract-surreal/though-a-bitter-wind-blows/
· Psych Ward (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/43517/abstract-surreal/psych-ward/
· Ears of the Earth, (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/43516/abstract-surreal/ears-of-the-earth/
· Event Horizon, (digital art), DigitalArt.com, 2005, http://digitalart.org/art/42553/abstract-surreal/event-horizon/
· Ears of the Earth, (digital art), e-frontier.com, 2005 http://www.e-frontier.com/imagecatalogue/customimageview/3543/?sbss=509