BRYAN CONSULTING - Key Persons
Jerry L. Bryan is President of Bryan Consulting. The firm is a management, technology, and communications consulting organization. It serves business, government and nonprofit clients. Its capabilities are focused on issues of strategic change.
Bryan's previous experience includes:
Chairman and CEO of Atisma Technologies, developer of Web-based management software for K-12 schools, higher education, and nonprofits, that is accessed over the Internet
Vice President of Corporate Communications for Sverdrup Corporation, an international professional services firm in engineering, architecture, construction, and advanced technology
Public Affairs Director for the U.S. companies of Alusuisse, a multinational industrial group based in Zurich, Switzerland
Vice President of Wright & Manning, an investor relations and financial communications firm in St. Louis, part of the national Manning, Selvage & Lee public relations firm
Press Secretary to the Governor of Missouri
Broadcast and wire service journalist covering state and national government
His specialties in communications and technology blend to provide clients with clear direction for the next wave of strategic change.
As a public relations counselor he focuses on marketplace positioning, issues management, media relations, investor relations, and strategic planning.
With a personal commitment to the beneficial uses of technology, he creates strategies for Internet, Intranet, and Extranet sites to achieve the productivity gains, collaborative work teams, and innovation that clients expect in a Web environment.
He has served on numerous regional and national boards for civic, charitable, professional, educational, and healthcare institutions. He has cumulative service of more than 100 years on such boards. Currently he is chairman of the Council for Educational Advancement, chairman of the Alzheimer's Association, a trustee of the Missouri Baptist Hospital Healthcare Foundation, and a director of Grand Center Inc., a land redevelopment corporation for midtown St. Louis.
Bryan is a counselor to educators and nonprofit executives on a wide range of issues. He is a frequent speaker and workshop leader on advanced technology, marketing, issues management, public relations, and strategic planning.
He is a Fellow and former national board member of the Public Relations Society of America, a former international chairman of the Business Marketing Association, and former chair of international development for the International Association of Business Communicators. He is accredited by those groups, with designations of APR, CBC and ABC. He was honored by PRSA as the 14th recipient of its Paul M. Lund Award; by BMA and Crain Communications as the 26th recipient of the G. D. Crain Award; and by IABC as a U.S. District IV Communicator of the Year. He is a member of the Arthur W. Page Society.
Scott Granneman is a consultant, educator, and author. As a consultant for Bryan Consulting, he works with small- and medium-sized businesses and non-profits to bring them the beneficial uses of technology. In particular, as the lead architect of the Bryan Consulting Content Management System (CMS), he envisions, designs, and helps develop new extensions for the CMS that benefit all of the company's clients.
As an educator, Scott has taught thousands of people of all ages - from pre-teens to senior citizens - on a wide variety of topics, including technology, education, and literature. As his focus has shifted in recent years to Linux and other open source technologies, he has worked to bring knowledge of these powerful new directions in software to people at all levels of technical skill. He currently works as an Adjunct Professor at Washington University in St. Louis, teaching courses about technology.
As an author, Scott has written articles about computer and Internet security and privacy for SecurityFocus, the largest community of security professionals on the Internet, and Linux Magazine. He currently writes as a monthly columnist for SecurityFocus, with op/ed pieces that focus on general topics of security, and for Linux Magazine, in a column focusing on new and interesting Linux software, and as a professional blogger on The Open Source Weblog. He is currently working on a book about the Knoppix Live CD version of the Linux operating system.