Bryan has worked in R&D, Organization Development, Learning and Performance, Design, Development, Media Production, Publishing, Marketing and Advertising.  He has experience with large corporations and small to mid-size businesses. He has worked with IBM, NCR, and AT&T Worldwide Services, worked in teams with Anderson Consulting and Diamond Consulting, and founded two consulting companies, a publishing business, a distribution business, and a creative agency.  Today he runs THINK, a business and brand coaching firm that offers ad agency media and production as well as fractional officer service.

Carter has held many roles and had many accomplishments.  He was a member of the PS1 Development Team for IBM where he ran the competitive analysis lab for the R&D group; as a business coach for Home Depot’s internal multi-media training department; as a process and design consultant for Citigroup; as a Director for a technology company; as Design Director for a Chicago startup partnership with Diamond Consulting and as Creative Director for an internet technology company during dot-com; as VP for an advertising agency; founded two consulting businesses, a distribution company, and a creative agency; founded a publishing business that produced two branded publications–Manufactured in Mississippi Magazine and Emma Jack Magazine; helped raise the stock price of a bank from $3.04 to $8.45 in 16 months as a fractional CMO and marketing, design, and advertising services provider; helped take a product company from prototype and startup to a $100 million company in 30 months as a fractional CMO and marketing, design, and advertising services provider; and has mentored, coached, and consulted with more than 300 small to midsized businesses.

Carter was one of AT&T’s first User Centered Design experts where his team was awarded for their work in immersive simulations and experiential learning training sessions; and led as Design Director for The Sauce and Fly in The Soup, two Chicago startups. He served as Creative Director for Vention, a 100 person dot.com company, and for THINK.

Carter was one of the first established members of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA); conducted multiple usability testing sessions in coordination with software development for AT&T and NCR; trained AT&T, NCR, and Home Depot employees to conduct usability testing and utilize user-centered design; presented at national / international conferences on usability, usability testing, and user-centered design.

Bryan ran the competitive analysis lab for IBM’s PS1 Team where we housed a lab filled with competitive hardware and a library of software used to research cutting edge software, hardware and operating systems including Apple, PC, PS2, and international platforms; worked with The University of Georgia conducting research and development projects on multimedia learning.

Carter studied educational and behavioral psychology as part of a master’s degree with The University of Georgia; avidly applied psychological research in software and design projects career-long; special interests in psychology related to influence, behavior, performance, and learning. 

Carter served in multiple leadership roles including team leader, manager, director, vice president, president, CEO, and founder of multiple enterprises.

Bryan has served as a consultant to Fortune 500s; developed training NCR Teradata’s top 20 sales people and a 500+ network technician staff; trained the trainers in motivational engagement for NCR; trained the Home Depot multimedia education team in the design and development of highly immersive simulated learning environments; has coached and consulted over 300 small and mid-size businesses; served as a Marketing Mentor for Innovate Mississippi across multiple conferences; and has served official mentorship, teaching and training roles for multiple organizations.

Presented at national / international conferences on the topics of engagement and motivation strategy, simulation design, design strategy, rapid prototyping, usability, usability testing, user-centered design, and AI adoption. Conferences include National Educational Computing Conference (NECC), Society for Applied Learning Technologies (SALT), Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), American Educational Research Association (AERA), Usability Professionals Association (UPA), Performance Support, E3, and Accelerate.

Authored and published articles in multiple local, national and international journals and periodicals including:

Manufactured in Mississippi Magazine

• Custom Metal Solutions : Forming a New Empire
• MDA – Burning Desire to Win
• Mississippi’s First Bourbon
• The World’s Deadliest Animal vs. Mississippi Manufacturing
• Hinds Community College — Mississippi’s Mid-Level Workforce Development Leader turns 100 Mississippi’s Father of Polymer Science
• Spartan Mosquito Eradicator
• A Recipe for Success
• Center for Manufacturing Excellence
• Marketing 101: What is Your Customer’s Online Experience?
• Mississippi is the Natural-Gas Distribution Nexus in the South. Atmos Energy is at the Hub.
• Mississippi’s Governor Phil Bryant: Our State of Manufacturing
• Able Workforce
• Marketing 101 – How Do They Find You? What Happens Next?
• Mississippi Birds Take Flight Over the U.S.
• Mississippi – Selected for Business & Affirmed by People
• Mississippi’s Steward For Business – Governor Phil Bryant
• Mississippians Defending Our Shores, One Ship at a Time
• Mississippi’s Renewed Gateway to International Distribution
• Google Says it is Time to Go Mobile Friendly, or Be Penalized
• Higher Standards
• Leadership is Big Business
• Making the Mold
• Mississippi’s Steward for Business on Manufacturing
• Sanderson Farms
  
  

Emma Jack Magazine

• A Home for the Family
• Always There
• Kids These Days
• Counting Summers
• Summer Day – Adventure Awaits
• Living Practically Positive
• Pillars of Strength – Special Needs Yield Exceptional Children and Families – John
• Technology Second – A Family Connected Can Be The Least Connected
• Don’t Sideline My Child – Battling Dyslexia
• From Summer Fun to School’s Begun – Transitioning from summer life to school schedules.
• Mississippi’s LockerBones go to Market
• Pillars of Strength – Special needs yield exceptional children – Jack
  
  

280 Living

• Remote Deposit – The unhidden secret in business banking.
  
  

Madison County Magazine

• New Expectations in Banking – Technology offers unprecedented convenience of banking accessibility. But, don’t forget the basics.
• Keeping it Simple – This Madison County family has created their own local paradise.
  
  

Outdoors ‘n Mississippi

• Sharks, Ducks, and Mississippi Invention — Mississippi wildlife enthusiasts seize opportunity to reinvent an industry and earn an audience on ABC’s Shark Tank.
• Mississippi Invention — Mississippi tinkerer sees an everyday problem as an opportunity to save rods and invigorate an industry.
  
  

County Connections

• Private Banking — There is a hidden banking service waiting to be discovered.
• First Lady Deborah Bryant Takes Steps to Help Cure Breast Cancer — The First Lady Deborah Bryant is directly involved with Susan G. Komen for the Cure® sending a strong and positive message to Mississippi.
• Business Loans Jump Start the New Year — Business loans are real and available and more businesses are qualified than are aware.
• Local Banks are Lending Money — Is there light at the end of the tunnel? If lending is an indicator, then we may be seeing brighter days ahead.
  
  

Flowood Compass

• When Community Means Community
  
  

Click Magazine

• Securing a Loan in Difficult Times
  
  

Web Based Training (Book)

• Chapter: Evaluating interactive training on the worldwide web
  
  

Training (Journal)

• Just don’t tell ‘em it’s fun
  
  

IP Journal

• Usability Professionals’ Association Conference
  
  

Technical Horizons in Education Journal

• CD-ROM mastering: What are your publishing options?