User:JBryar

My name is Jack Bryar.

I'm a former knowledge management officer and editor with Individual Inc, - later NewsEdge, now part of acquiremedia, and individual.com. While there I developed and explained the firm's categorization and taxonomy architecture and performed consulting work with key customers in the energy, government, financial service and IT sectors.

I moonlighted as a featured writer for various publications, with a focus on high technology and communications. A few of these can still be found online. Both prior to that and subsequently, I did consulting work for the IT, information services, and communications industries at firms such as Northern Telecom, and various US, Canadian,and European firms with interests in imaging, data storage and specialty components.

Today I have a small practice focused on preparing start-ups for the cruel world of today's marketplace.

I know a fair amount about the New England area, being a geography buff.

Considering that I had the ear of senior executives in the industries I served, I also have to think I have some valid experience in the industries I served, and have additional expertise in methodologies to help identify content and determine its validity. When I get annoyed at phony experts and bogus analysis I still sound off about it occasionally In the past I've anonymously submitted or edited articles about various New England and Ohio communities, the energy sector, imaging and mass storage (WORM drive technology, C.O.L.D.,) and linguistics as an element of information retrieval. Occasionally my additions have included more esoteric subjects, such as a fanatical softball tourney played in West Africa.