Jay

S. Bryant

Princeton Junction,

NJ *****

917-***-****

abqswe@r.postjobfree.com

Professional Summary

Entrepreneurial, creative

leader, that is skilled in managing projects and products from concept to

launch. Experienced in providing strategic leadership to organizations for the

planning, design, marketing and implementation of print & electronic

products. I have significant experience in building social networks.

Selected

Accomplishments

Re-launched the TV Guide.com web site with blogs,

social networking, rich media assets and a new site architecture that

resulted in the company stock being upgraded by stock analysts to a

Buy. The number of

unique visitors to the web site increased by 87% in one year.

Planned, designed and implemented electronic and

print projects resulting in 22 national awards including recognition from

the Software and Information Industry Association (SIIA), Newspaper

Association of America, Society of News Design and National Press

Photographers Association. This body of work in educational product

development, corporate communications and journalism demonstrates

excellence in communications, team building and new product development.

Developed and executed school community

technology program for the K-12 education market that was formerly

developed as an Internet start-up, then acquired and deployed to over

43,000 schools. Gained

significant knowledge and experience in commercializing educational

products.

Professional Experience

Vice President – Sales

LiveWorld, Inc., San Jose, CA 2007

to present

Responsible for selling social networking

solutions and services to Fortune 1000 companies and advertising agencies

in New York and Midwest. Clients include ATT, Johnson & Johnson, Sanofi-Aventis, Marriott, McDonalds, Mini-Cooper, Lexus

and WPP.

Development of sales and marketing campaigns for

the company to promote services and technology solutions.

Director of Online Products

TV Guide, New York, NY 2005

to 2007

Rebuilt a product development and QA group that

resulted in new product launches that were delivered on time and within

budget. Hired and supervised

9 employees.

Responsible for developing and implementing an

online community strategy focused on TV, Movies and other entertainment.

Managed internal and external development groups

on projects including a website re-launch in September 2006. The web site has grown in the last

3 years from 2.7 million to 20 million unique monthly visitors based on

strategy I helped developed and executed.

Product Director

Co-nect Inc., Cambridge,

MA 2004

to 2005

Responsible for commercializing a $5M US

Department of Education grant to develop a professional development

tracking system.

P+L

responsibility for a set 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, Princeton, NJ 2001

to 2004

Responsible for creating new business ventures

with technology products and evaluating potential mergers and acquisitions

within K-12 & Higher Education markets.

Develop partnerships for distribution of

electronic assessment technology products with publishers and e-learning

companies. Began work in company s for-profit subsidiary, responsible for

business and product development. Transitioned to parent company in 2003.

Identify and research market potential for

assessment products developed in ETS s research division. Products have

included data reporting, formative assessments, simulation based

assessments, item cloning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) based

scoring technologies.

Elected to the SIIA s education division board in

2003 (Industry trade group representing over 200 education companies).

Vice President, School Communities

bigchalk.com, inc., New York, NY 1999 to

2001

Developed strategy for building and deploying

community publishing system into over 43,000 schools. Supervision of all aspects of

product development, marketing and implementation. Responsible for staff of 20,

including developers, content experts, marketing, professional development

and support staff. I was

employee #3 and we raised $100 million in funding.

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, Inc., Durham, NC

1997 to 1999

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, Corporate Communications

Freedom Communications, Irvine, CA

1995

to 1997

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.

Newspaper Experience

Photo

Editor, The Orange County Register, Santa Ana, CA 1991

to 1995 Photo

Editor, El Paso Times, El Paso, TX 1988

to 1991

Photo Editor, The Associated Press, Chicago, IL 1987

to 1988

Chief Photographer & Photographer, The Argus, Rock

Island, IL 1981

to 1985

Education and

College Internships

B.A., Southern Illinois

University at Carbondale, 1981, Professional Photography Major.

University of

Nebraska-Lincoln, College of Journalism.

Graduate Studies in Journalism & Communications research. Completed 21 hours of course work

towards a Masters Degree.

March and May 1981: Camera

Assistant, William Strode, Pulitzer Prize winning photographer, Louisville,

Kentucky. Assisted Mr. Strode with

the Kentucky Derby and a story for National Geographic Magazine on Central

Kentucky.

June 1978 to September 1978:

Intern Photographer, The White House Photography Office, Washington, D.C. Work involved coverage of daily

activities of the President, Vice-President and First Lady; photo research and

editing.

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