Contacts

Program Leaders

Brian McDonald (bio)

President
MOR Associates, Inc.
462 Main Street, Suite 300
Watertown, MA 02472

(617) 924-4501

morbrian@aol.com

James (Jim) D. Bruce (bio)

James D. Bruce
Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus and
Vice President for Information Systems Emeritus
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
12 Woodpark Circle
Lexington, MA 02421-7208

(781) 354-8934

jdb@mit.edu

Program Administration and Support

Communications and Survey Administration

Chris Paquette

(617) 924-4501

morchris@rcn.com

Hotel Accomodations and Meeting Logistics

Maria Corso

(617) 924-4501

mcmaria@aol.com

About the Program Leaders

James D. Bruce

James D. Bruce is a consultant to academia and industry. From 1987 to 2003, Dr. Bruce was Vice President for Information Systems and Chief Information Officer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he is currently Professor of Electrical Engineering Emeritus. As CIO, Professor Bruce was responsible for directing the evolution, integration, and effective use of computing and communications resources throughout MIT in support of planning, management decision-making, education, research activities, and day-to-day operations.

Prior to becoming Vice President for Information Systems in July 1986, he was Director of Information Systems. Professor Bruce was also program manager for Reengineering at MIT from 1994 to 1998. From January 1979 to June 1983, Professor Bruce was Director of the Industrial Liaison Program. There he managed MIT’s activities to provide industry with efficient, timely access to its research and staff resources.

Early in his tenure as CIO at MIT, Professor Bruce was a leader in the development of MIT’s Athena computing environment that revolutionized educational computing. Athena both transitioned student computing at MIT from time-shared computers to graphics-based, high performing workstations, and opened up the use of educational technology to new learning applications in a broad range of fields.

A decade ago, Professor Bruce was a founder of NEARnet, the first academic and research IP-based network for the New England states. He was a founding member of the Board of Trustees of the Consortium for Scientific Computing, which operated the John von Neumann Center, one of the original National Science Foundation supercomputer facilities. From 1999 to 2002, he chaired the Network Planning and Policy Advisory Committee for Internet2, and was a member of the Board of Trustees for the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development. Professor Bruce also served as a member of Apple’s Higher Education Advisory Committee, Microsoft’s Higher Education Advisory Council, and Akamai’s Education Advisory Board.

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Brian McDonald

Brian McDonald is President of MOR Associates. Maximizing Organizational Resources (MOR) was created in 1983 to assist clients in developing strategies designed to elicit the contributions employees want to make to enhance the success of their enterprise.

Brian has increasingly focused his practice on developing leaders, enhancing strategic thinking and consulting on continuous improvement efforts.

Within the past three years, Brian’s expertise in designing and delivering leadership development has resulted in his facilitating three MIT’s Leader to Leader programs, two rounds of New England Business Service’s (NEBS) Leadership Development Program, and two iterations of the New York State Education Department’s Leadership Academy. Brian played a key role in the development of each of these programs. He has participated in GE Capital’s Leadership Symposium in Europe and has worked with Tufts University School of Engineering to integrate leadership and teamwork into the curriculum. Brian is also currently working on a leadership development program to be offered at the University of Pennsylvania.

Brian has been consulting to IT organizations for the past ten years. This has included work with MIT, Stanford, Emory, NYU, and Tufts University. At Tufts he facilitated the formation of their Information Technology Council. This council, made up of sixteen representatives drawn from the seven colleges and central office, reached agreement on the services that need to be centralized, those that should be decentralized, and how all of them would be supported financially. At MIT, Brian has consulted to their Information Services Leadership Team on strategic direction, organizational design and improving customer satisfaction. His firm, MOR Associates, has also conducted large-scale customer satisfaction surveys for IT organizations at MIT, Stanford and NYU.

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Program Participants

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