Jay Bryant

Current

Vice President / Business Development at LiveWorld

Past

Director of Online Products at TV Guide.com
Consultant at Educational Testing Service
Product Director at Co-nect

Director of Business Development at Educational Testing Service
Vice President at bigchalk.com
Information Architect & Community Manager at koz.com
Manager of Corporate Communications at Freedom Communications
Photo Editor at Orange County Register
Photo Editor at El Paso Times
Photo Editor at Associated Press

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Education

Southern Illinois University, Carbondale

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Online Media

Jay Bryant’s Summary

I have an award winning background in social media, online communities, software development and photography. Entrepreneurial, creative leader, who is skilled in managing projects and products from concept to launch. Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to see all projects as both client and developer. Greatest strength is in program/product implementation and technology analysis. My web site for Jay Bryant Photography is at: http://www.jaybryant.com

Jay Bryant’s Specialties:

Online Communities, Social Media, Blogging, Educational Technology, Photography

Jay Bryant’s Experience

Vice President / Business Development

LiveWorld

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

July 2007 — Present (2 years 5 months)

Vice President for LiveWorld, a provider of online communities and moderation services. My work involved sales and business development in the NE US. Company web site is at http://www.liveworld.com
Director of Online Products

TV Guide.com

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; GMST; Online Media industry)

September 2005 — June 2007 (1 year 10 months)

Director of Online Products for tvguide.com. Management of staff that included product managers and QA group. Launched one of the largest TV themed blogging communities at: http://community.tvguide.com Besides the online community my work also included a web site redesign and launching several new products. My work also included SEO & UI audits and online video.
Consultant

Educational Testing Service

(Non-Profit; 1001-5000 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

April 2005 — September 2005 (6 months)

• Extended full time consulting contract with the Business Development Group at ETS

• Responsible for finding new markets and partnerships for ETS technology products in K-12, Higher Education, International and Adult markets.

• Competitive analysis and research on domestic and international companies.
Product Director

Co-nect

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

August 2004 — January 2005 (6 months)

• Responsible for commercializing a $5M US Department of Education grant to develop a professional development tracking system.

• P+L responsibility for a data-driven professional services offerings for the K-12 market.

• Specific work included: developing sales and marketing materials, defining market requirements for products, pricing, competitive analysis and building channel relationships for products.
Director of Business Development

Educational Testing Service

(Primary/Secondary Education industry)

August 2001 — August 2004 (3 years 1 month)

I was responsible for licensing ETS technology services to other educational companies. I also did M&A work in the K-12 markets.
Vice President

bigchalk.com

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Primary/Secondary Education industry)

November 1999 — May 2001 (1 year 7 months)

• Developed strategy for building and deploying community publishing system into over 43,000 schools. Supervision of all aspects of product development and implementation. Responsible for staff of 20, including developers, content experts, marketing, professional development and support staff.

• Conducted research and development activities related to technology components including web conferencing, wireless portal applications, XML technology, content publishing systems, portal technology frameworks, text-to-voice conversion and security systems.

• Responsible for creating and enacting privacy policies and compliance with federal privacy regulations (COPPA).
Information Architect & Community Manager

koz.com

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

1997 — 1999 (2 years )

• Developed and implemented community web publishing systems into the education market, reaching over 5000 school sites worldwide (Schoolllife.net).

• Executed plan for acquisition of Schoollife.net by bigchalk.com/Bell & Howell. Identified potential partners, conducted merger and acquisition discussions and led contract negotiations.

• Conducted implementation, marketing and sales activities for Internet software company. Territory included Western US. Company grew from 16 to over 400 newspaper clients.
Manager of Corporate Communications

Freedom Communications

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Publishing industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )

· Developed and deployed corporate web site for the company (http://www.freedom.com), produced annual reports, set up an employee BBS system and project management for PAFET (a technology consortium of six media companies) on an educational Internet site and a CD-ROM research project about the travel industry.

· Produced Freedom Family, an internal employee publication. Project included redesign of the publication, writing, photography, layout, pre-press work and distribution of the monthly magazine. Publication was recognized with national awards.
Photo Editor

Orange County Register

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Newspapers industry)

1991 — 1995 (4 years )

• Direction of photography coverage for the daily newspaper with a 20 photographer staff in the Los Angeles metro area.

• Project photo editing work, including projects on Russia, Vietnam, Yugoslavia, The South Pole and San Onofre Nuclear Plant.

• Member of photo editing team that won awards for photography use from the National Press Photographers Association and the Society of Newspaper Design.
Photo Editor

El Paso Times

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; Newspapers industry)

1988 — 1991 (3 years )

Ran a photo department west of the Pecos River with 4 staff members.
Photo Editor

Associated Press

(Newspapers industry)

1986 — 1987 (1 year )

I was responsible for editing photos out of a 18 state region in the Mid-west.