Curriculum Vitae

Brent R. Toderash, BA

Pro­file

Brent R. Toderash

A free­lance thinker, writer and strate­gist, Brent Toderash is a strong ana­lyt­i­cal thinker with per­cep­tive intu­ition. A “big-picture” thinker, he excels in the role of review­ing busi­ness mod­els and strate­gies with an eye to long-term effects. He pos­sesses both solid intel­lec­tual and insight­ful soft skills, and is able to employ both in a vari­ety of capac­i­ties. His wide array of pro­fi­cien­cies include cogent writ­ing skills.

One-Liners

  • MBTI — INTP Intro­verted iNtu­itive Think­ing Per­ceiv­ing (scor­ing very high on intuitive).
  • KTS (Keirsey) — Archi­tect, in the tem­pera­ment of the rationals.
  • Strengths­Finder 2.0: Strate­gic, Delib­er­a­tive, Rela­tor, Ideation, Intellection
  • Ennea­gram Type Five, The Inves­ti­ga­tor with a “Four-Wing” (The Indi­vid­u­al­ist), or “The Icon­o­clast.” 5w4′s have a more intu­itive than strictly ratio­nal approach to knowledge.”
  • Maven — As described in Mal­colm Gladwell’s The Tip­ping Point. (Maven)
  • Cat­a­lyst.
  • Intel­li­gent. Ana­lyt­i­cal. Intu­itive. Per­cep­tive.
    Researcher. Cog­ni­tive. Strate­gic. Thinker.

Career Overview

2007‑Present
Free­lance writer & consultant.
2000‑2007
Entre­pre­neur, Man­ager, & Con­sul­tant, Rainy Day Soft­ware Corp.
1989‑2000
Gen­eral insur­ance bro­ker; pro­fes­sional des­ig­na­tion of CAIB.
1984‑1989
Post-Secondary Edu­ca­tion & early work expe­ri­ence (includ­ing insur­ance industry).

Instruc­tor, Pan­elist, Speaker

2004‑2009
Pan­elist at Emerging/Missional Church sem­i­nars: Prov­i­dence Col­lege & Sem­i­nary Emerg­ing Church Con­fer­ence with Gary Collins, Ph.D. et al; PAOC Lead­ers’ Con­fer­ence with Leonard Sweet, Ph.D. et al; Men­non­ite Church(es) of Man­i­toba Pastor’s Con­fer­ence with Len Hjal­mar­son et al; Pan­elist & Work­shop Pre­sen­ter, The Great Emer­gence con­fer­ence with Phyl­lis Tickle et al.
2002‑2004
Mar­ket­ing Course Pre­sen­ta­tion Review/Judging Panel, Uni­ver­sity of Win­nipeg; sev­eral occa­sions for courses instructed by Mr. Russ Reimer.
1995‑2000
Insur­ance Institute/Brokers’ Asso­ci­a­tion: Dis­cus­sion Lead, sem­i­nar moderator
1990‑2004
Reli­gion & The­ol­ogy instruc­tion through local churches: itin­er­ant instruc­tor through local church; trips to Indi­ana, Can­cun, British Colum­bia. Teaching/preaching in local churches, includ­ing guest lec­tur­ing for a post-secondary train­ing pro­gram and inter-church sem­i­nars and a vari­ety of church small group and con­gre­ga­tional settings.

Writ­ing

2009
Chap­ter Con­trib­u­tor, Viral­Hope: Good News from the Urbs to the Burbs (and Every­thing in Between), J.R. Wood­ward, ed.
2009
Con­trib­u­tor, Beau­ti­ful Marcy: A Book of Hours
2009
Fresh and Re:Fresh — Church Plant­ing in Canada Post-Christendom, ed., with Len Hjal­mar­son (forth­com­ing from Allelon Publishing)
2008‑Present
(Occa­sional) —  The Pen­guin­ista News Linux/technology news aggregator/blog (site relaunched Octo­ber 2008)
2007‑Present
Strate­gic Intu­ition (Coup d’Oeil) Blog
2004‑Present
Pseu­do­ny­mous Emerging/Missional Church Blog, more than 2,000 entries; ranks glob­ally among the top blogs in its niche
2008
Var­i­ous arti­cles and reviews com­mis­sioned by The Angli­can Jour­nal, Chris­t­ian Week, et al.
2004‑2006
Proof­read & pro­vide edi­to­r­ial com­ment dur­ing writ­ing process for Post-Charismatic by Rob McAlpine
2007
That You Might Believe: Pray­ing Advent with the Gospel of John (pub­lished pseudonymously)
2007
Chap­ter con­trib­u­tor to Voices of the Vir­tual World, (Pseu­do­ny­mous) under the award-winning Wikik­le­sia Project
2007‑2008
CIO​.com
2005, 2007
Allelon​.org & Emerg​ingChurch​.info Web­sites (Pseudonymous)
The Pen­guin­ista News (archives), Linux/technology news aggregator/blog; writer & edi­tor (4½ years)
1990‑1999
Church min­istry man­ual (occa­sional & peri­od­i­cal works)
1987‑1989
Prov­i­dence Col­lege stu­dent news­pa­per; course work

Web­site Consulting

2007‑2009
var­i­ous clients includ­ing allelon​.org, the​-land​ing​.org, rem​brandtscoffee​house​.net, full​cir​cle​ex​change​.net, buyea​gle​first​.org; roles include project coör­di­na­tion, soft­ware design, selec­tion, instal­la­tion, and cus­tomiza­tion, copy writ­ing, site cod­ing in html, css, and php; minor main­te­nance using ASP in Win­dows environment.
1999‑Present
numer­ous projects; roles included analy­sis, archi­tec­ture design, web­site design, cod­ing html and css, project man­age­ment, inter­face design, and copy writing.

Event Coör­di­na­tion

Com­mit­tee par­tic­i­pant or man­ager for a vari­ety of events, including:

June 2007
Mis­sional Church sem­i­nar with Alan Roxburgh.
1990‑1998
Six inter-church con­fer­ences attended by 100‑1000+ per event.
1988
Youth Encounter (Prov­i­dence College).

Rainy Day Soft­ware Corp.

Gen­er­ally, all aspects of man­ag­ing a small busi­ness enter­prise, including

Man­age­ment (General):

  • Account­ing; Busi­ness Plan­ing & Forecasting
  • Ven­dor & Strate­gic Part­ner­ship Management
  • Develop & Doc­u­ment Procedures
  • HR & Cor­po­rate Culture
  • Busi­ness Development

Man­age­ment (Specialized):

  • Devel­op­ment and Adjust­ment of Busi­ness Models
  • Busi­ness Strategy
  • Prod­uct Desing & Development
  • Tech­ni­cal Design/Architecture
  • Cor­po­rate Branding/Brand Management

Other:

  • Web­site Design & Programming
  • Web­site Strategy
  • Bid Man­age­ment
  • Tech­ni­cal & Busi­ness Con­sul­tant, Analyst
  • Project Man­age­ment

Rep­re­sen­ta­tive Projects:

  • NRT Net­work Con­struc­tion (WAN for Inter­net; munic­i­pal part­ner­ship project)
  • WBN Net­work Con­struc­tion (WAN for Inter­net; Indus­try Canada project with munic­i­pal partners)
  • Busi­ness Plan & Net­work Engi­neer­ing for rural broad­band, includ­ing man­age­ment of RFP process (mul­ti­ple projects)
  • Wire­less Net­work Expan­sion projects in Roseau River, Fisher River, Swan River
  • Var­i­ous Soft­ware & Cre­ative Projects, LAN Deployments

Media Cov­er­age & Interviews

  • CBC Radio One
  • Wire­less Broad­band Busi­ness Magazine
  • Case Study (Indus­try Canada)
  • The Stein­bach Carillon
  • The Inter­lake Spectator
  • The Stonewall Argus
  • The Selkirk Journal
  • Dec­ima Publishing’s Report on Wireless
  • ITBusi​ness​.ca
  • The Ottawa Citizen
  • Wi-Fi Planet​.com (2 articles)
  • The Cana­dian Wire­less Telecom­mu­ni­ca­tions Asso­ci­a­tion (CWTA) Newsletter
  • Tele​pho​ny​On​line​.Com
  • CHVN Radio
  • CHEX Tele­vi­sion (CTV Affil­i­ate in Peter­bor­ough Ontario)
  • Linux Today (Arti­cle by Joe Barr)

Mem­ber­ships

Cur­rent

  • The Man­i­toba Writ­ers’ Collective
  • The Daily Scribe
  • 9Rules
  • Amer­i­can Reg­istry for Inter­net Num­bers (ARIN)

Past

  • Win­nipeg Cen­tral Busi­ness Asso­ci­a­tion (WCBA)
  • Win­nipeg Cham­ber of Commerce
  • Cana­dian Asso­ci­a­tion of Inter­net Providers (CAIP)
  • Mensa
  • Insur­ance Bro­kers’ Asso­ci­a­tion of Man­i­toba (IBAM)
  • Insur­ance Insti­tute of Man­i­toba (IIM)

Edu­ca­tion

Gen­eral

  • Grad­u­ate Degree: Mas­ter of Arts, Prov­i­dence Sem­i­nary (not com­pleted)
    Major: Bib­li­cal Studies
  • Under­grad­u­ate Degree: Bach­e­lor of Arts, Prov­i­dence Col­lege
    Major: Bib­li­cal Stud­ies (includ­ing lib­eral arts, psy­chol­ogy, coun­sel­ing, pub­lic speak­ing)
    Extra-Curricular: year­book (pho­tog­ra­phy); junior class com­mit­tee; drama club (scene design & con­struc­tion — major pro­duc­tions included The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe & The Diary of Anne Frank), tech­ni­cal ser­vices (scene design, sound rein­force­ment & light­ing) — major pro­duc­tions included David & Saul tour; Youth Encounter Com­mit­tee (youth con­fer­ence); School Newspaper
  • Grade 12: Dauphin Regional Com­pre­hen­sive Sec­ondary School
    Sig­nif­i­cant courses: busi­ness, law, mar­ket­ing, account­ing, and com­puter sci­ences
    Extra-Curricular: drama club

Industry-Specific

  • WaveRider cer­ti­fi­ca­tion (wire­less technology)
  • Levi­ton struc­tured cable design & instal­la­tion course
  • Cana­dian Accred­ited Insur­ance Bro­ker (CAIB): Insur­ance Broker’s Asso­ci­a­tion of Man­i­toba (IBAM)
    Course mate­r­ial: insur­ance, risk man­age­ment, and busi­ness management
  • Pro­fes­sional Devel­op­ment: Insur­ance Broker’s Asso­ci­a­tion of Man­i­toba et al
    Var­i­ous courses spe­cific to gen­eral insur­ance industry

Past & Cur­rent Hob­bies & Interests

  • Pho­tog­ra­phy
  • Read­ing, Book Collecting
  • Writ­ing
  • Wine Mak­ing

Com­mu­nity Service

1982‑2004
Local church involve­ment, posi­tions included church lead­er­ship team and var­i­ous group/ministry lead­er­ship positions.
1987
Trip to Hong Kong, Macau, & China (Cam­pus Cru­sade for Christ).