Brian Willison (born May 6, 1977) is owner and senior IT consultant at B. Willison & Associates. He is the former executive director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) at

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and program management officer at

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Biography

Early life

Brian Willison was born in

Moorestown, New Jersey Moorestown is a Township (New Jersey), township in Burlington County, New Jersey, Burlington County in the U.S. state of New Jersey. It is an eastern suburb of Philadelphia and geographically part of the South Jersey region of the state. As of ...

. He attended the

Moorestown Friends School Moorestown Friends School (MFS) is a private, coeducational Quaker day school in Moorestown, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2019–20 school year, the school had an enrollment of 652 students (plus 43 in PreK) and 74.5 classroom teachers ...

(

) in its Lower and Middle school programs. After transferring, Willison graduated from

The Lawrenceville School The Lawrenceville School is a private, coeducational preparatory school for boarding and day students located in the unincorporated community of Lawrenceville within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawre ...

(

Lawrenceville, New Jersey Lawrenceville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) within Lawrence Township in Mercer County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey.

) in 1995. He attended

Washington University in St. Louis Washington University in St. Louis (WashU) is a private research university in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Founded in 1853 by a group of civic leaders and named for George Washington, the university spans 355 acres across its Danforth ...

where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in fine arts and engineering in 1999. Willison received his master's degree from the

Parsons School of Design The Parsons School of Design is a private art and design college under The New School located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City. Founded in 1896 after a group of progressive artists broke away from established Manhattan art ...

in 2005. In 2012, he received an ExEd degree from

MIT Sloan School of Management The MIT Sloan School of Management (branded as MIT Sloan) is the business school of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. MIT Sloan offers bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degree progra ...

Career

Willison has worked in the fields of new media,

publishing Publishing is the activities of making information, literature, music, software, and other content, physical or digital, available to the public for sale or free of charge. Traditionally, the term publishing refers to the creation and distribu ...

marketing Marketing is the act of acquiring, satisfying and retaining customers. It is one of the primary components of Business administration, business management and commerce. Marketing is usually conducted by the seller, typically a retailer or ma ...

, and

software development Software development is the process of designing and Implementation, implementing a software solution to Computer user satisfaction, satisfy a User (computing), user. The process is more encompassing than Computer programming, programming, wri ...

for companies located in

St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis ( , sometimes referred to as St. Louis City, Saint Louis or STL) is an Independent city (United States), independent city in the U.S. state of Missouri. It lies near the confluence of the Mississippi River, Mississippi and the Miss ...

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Philadelphia ( ), colloquially referred to as Philly, is the List of municipalities in Pennsylvania, most populous city in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania and the List of United States cities by population, sixth-most populous city in the Unit ...

San Francisco, California San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is a commercial, Financial District, San Francisco, financial, and Culture of San Francisco, cultural center of Northern California. With a population of 827,526 residents as of ...

, and

New York, New York New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the List of United States cities by population, most populous city in the United States, located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harb ...

. During the economic retraction following the Dot-com era, Willison launched a successful technology consulting practice which developed technologies for Charles Schwab,

Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational corporation and technology company, technology conglomerate headquartered in Redmond, Washington. Founded in 1975, the company became influential in the History of personal computers#The ear ...

, Ebay.com, and

AT&T AT&T Inc., an abbreviation for its predecessor's former name, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, is an American multinational telecommunications holding company headquartered at Whitacre Tower in Downtown Dallas, Texas. It is the w ...

. , Willison is the executive director of the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM) at

where he oversees PIIM's engagements in commercial and academic pursuits in the fields of

knowledge visualization Visualization (or visualisation ), also known as graphics visualization, is any technique for creating images, diagrams, or animations to communicate a message. Visualization through visual imagery has been an effective way to communicate bot ...

information design Information design is the practice of presenting information in a way that fosters an efficient and effective understanding of the information. The term has come to be used for a specific area of graphic design related to displaying information ...

geographic information systems A geographic information system (GIS) consists of integrated computer hardware and software that store, manage, analyze, edit, output, and visualize geographic data. Much of this often happens within a spatial database; however, this is not ...

(GIS), and

electronic medical record An electronic health record (EHR) is the systematized collection of electronically stored patient and population health information in a digital format. These records can be shared across different health care settings. Records are shared thro ...

(EMR) systems. At the Parsons Institute for Information Mapping (PIIM), Willison has led technology programs for United States Government initiatives: * Geospace and Media Tool (GMT) for the

United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature, legislative branch of the federal government of the United States. It is a Bicameralism, bicameral legislature, including a Lower house, lower body, the United States House of Representatives, ...

* Modular Integrated Knowledge System (MIKS) for the

National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is a combat support agency within the United States Department of Defense whose primary mission is collecting, analyzing, and distributing geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) to support national se ...

* Media File Generator (MFG) for the

Department of Defense The United States Department of Defense (DoD, USDOD, or DOD) is an executive department of the U.S. federal government charged with coordinating and supervising the six U.S. armed services: the Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, ...

* Human Organizational Network Generator (HONG) for the

* Georeferenced Information Visualization (GIV) for the

* Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA)

Graphic User Interface A graphical user interface, or GUI, is a form of user interface that allows users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons and visual indicators such as secondary notation. In many applications, GUIs are used instead of te ...

redesign for the

Military Health System The Military Health System (MHS) is the internal health care system operated within the United States Department of Defense that provides health care to active duty, Reserve component and retired U.S. Military personnel and their dependents. T ...

, and

United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command The United States Army Medical Research and Development Command (USAMRDC) is the United States Army's medical materiel developer, responsible for medical research, development, and acquisition. Overview USAMRDC Headquarters at Fort Detrick, Mar ...

* Visual Dashboard and Heads-Up Display of Patient Conditions for the

, and

From 2011 to 2013 Mr. Willison worked at

The Global Fund The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria (or simply the Global Fund) is an international financing and partnership organization that aims to "attract, leverage and invest additional resources to end the epidemics of HIV/AIDS, tu ...

overseeing technology and implementation programs for the organization's financial disbursement review cycles with mechanisms attached to the various country programs in the fields of Aids, Malaria, and Tuberculosis. From 2013 to 2014 Mr. Willison worked at the

establishing the WHO ICT Global Governance framework. His work was implemented across all WHO ICT offices (HQ, Regional and Local Offices) in all countries served by the

. From 2014 Mr. Willison has managed his consulting firm B. Willison & Associates. The firm's primary areas of focus were Information Technology, E-Commerce, Cloud Computing and Organizational Governance. Mr. Willison introduced specialized practices in crypto-financing, blockchain development and was an early adopter of blockchain and Bitcoin in Swiss cryptocurrency circles.

Publications

* ''Iterative Milestone Engineering Model'' * ''Visualization Driven Rapid Prototyping'' * ''Advancing Meaningful Use: Simplifying Complex Clinical Metrics Through Visual Representation''

References

*http://piim.newschool.edu/about/message-from-the-director *https://web.archive.org/web/20110612095707/http://www.thevillager.com/villager_39/mccainandkerrey.html *https://web.archive.org/web/20091004232932/http://www.carmengroup.com/education/case-histories

External links

* http://www.who.int * http://www.theglobalfund.org * http://www.wustl.edu * https://web.archive.org/web/20091202033003/http://www.parsons.edu/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Willison, Brian The New School faculty Living people Moorestown Friends School alumni 1977 births Washington University in St. Louis alumni Parsons School of Design alumni Sam Fox School of Design & Visual Arts alumni McKelvey School of Engineering alumni MIT Sloan School of Management alumni