Terri Ferrari founded Metal Tiger Technologies to share
the benefits of his unique perspective based on 25 years experience in
Data Processing Management and 25 years experience in the Chinese Internal
Arts like Tai Chi Chuan and the underlying science of energy cultivation
- Chi Kung. Metal Tiger Technologies specializes in the east to west transfer
of technology, applying traditional Taoist technology and wisdom to modern
maladies and problems. To this end, Metal Tiger Technologies has several
multimedia products under development including 'Avoiding Carpal Tunnel
Syndrome', 'Coping with Back Pain' and 'Living with Arthritis'. Besides
the development and marketing of multimedia products, Metal Tiger Technologies
also provides seminars and consulting services in:
Terri Ferrari has a Bachelor of Arts from New York University
with a double major in Mathematics and Psychology, and a Master of Science
in Computer Science and Experimental Statistics from the University of
Rhode Island, specializing in Artificial Intelligence. Since early in his
academic career, Terri focused on applying formal analysis to human behavior
and organization. Inspired by Martin Heidegger's concept that 'The essential
nature of Man is care', Terri developed a generalized theory of intelligence
that can be applied to any living organism, computer programs and human
organizations such as corporations. It may be glibly phrased 'You are what
you care about.' Terri first applied this theory to his Master's Thesis,
'A Syntactic Acquisition Device' which modeled how a child learns to first
combine words. Subsequently, Terri has made a career by applying this insight
to both computer systems and the human organizations they support.
In seven years with the Federal Computer Performance Evaluation
and Simulation Center (FEDSIM), Terri saved the government over two billion
dollars and received the Air Force's Organizational Excellence Award twice.
In thirteen years on Wall Street, Terri has specialized in designing, implementing
and managing Capacity Planning and Performance Management Systems that
are closely integrated with an organization's other systems management
applications including as Change Management, Problem Management, Configuration
Management and Financial Systems. Terri developed a 'just in time' system
for deploying and upgrading DP Resources that by optimally exploiting the
Investment Tax Credit allowed Morgan Stanley to earn 30% after taxes on
major capital investments. For over ten years at J. P. Morgan, Terri's
system has not only accurately predicted application growth and economically
deployed the most appropriate resources, but has also allowed major budgeted
capital expenditures be delayed two to five quarters without degrading
service below acceptable criteria whenever business conditions dictated
tight budgets.
Besides his curiosity in how the human body and mind work,
Terri has been motivated in his study of Taoist Technology by the stress
around him on Wall Street. After a short hiatus from practice, Terri recognized
the deleterious effects of this stress on his own health. Since then he
has used Tai Chi, Pa Kua Chang and Chi Kung to regulate the effects of
stress on himself, and the wisdom of the Taoist Classics like Sun Tzu's
'Art of War' and Lao Tzu's 'Tao Te Ching' to reduce and alleviated stress
generating conditions and situations for everyone in the workplace.
Terri has studied the Chinese Internal Arts with: