Bryan's writing specialties include historical narratives, concise technical writing, grant writing, public-facing blog posts, social media posts, and business writing, including emails, letters, and proposals.
History, music, reading, total quality management, blogging.
Hillsdale College's intensive liberal arts curriculum focuses on developing the student's ability to reason, analyze, and think. This process occurs through extensive reading and writing. Bryan's experience as a History major saw him conducting extensive research, including archival research in England for his senior thesis. Coupled with many English classes, Bryan's education gave him the tools needed to succeed as a writer. He graduated cum laude with departmental honors in May 2016.
Bryan earned his Master of Arts in Public History from Loyola University Chicago, a premier program preparing students for a lifetime of work in the public history field. This work can include museum management, historical consulting, historic preservation, historic tours, and more. The coursework combines traditional academic history with classes that focuses on the various forms of public history, such as museums, historic preservation, and archives.
Bryan works full-time in the non-profit sector (museum), writing physical descriptions of objects, conducting historical research and writing historical narratives, and writing blog posts. He also serves on the Board of Directors at a local non-profit, where he is the chair of the Governance Committee. In this role he writes committee reports, which he presents to the board. He also writes various documents that help the board and the director of the organization.
Bryan writes for and edits Progarchy, a progressive rock review website. His duties involve writing album and concert reviews, as well as conducting the occasional interview. As editor, he gathers progressive rock news for display on the site, and he is the primary contact between the site and record labels and musicians.
Bryan also writes album reviews for the Dutch Progressive Rock Page. This website has been writing excellent reviews of progressive rock since 1995. Bryan has been writing for them since the summer of 2015.
Bryan's liberal arts background enabled him to succeed at developing company policies and work process documents for small businesses. His writing style is clear and concise. He has formal training in business management and in business written communication. He is skilled in writing correspondence (emails, letters, memos), proposals, and technical documents.
Global power industry - Bryan wrote company policies and work procedures for ChemStaff, Inc., a chemical engineering firm, as a part of the development of their Total Quality Management System. Bryan took work processes he was completely unfamiliar with, taught himself the required material, and developed documents related to any number of the projects assigned to him. He wrote hundreds of documents while simultaneously working with high level consultants to develop the best written work to help the company create the highest quality products for their customers.
Bryan developed company policies, including an ethics policy, safety program, corrective action program, performance review forms, and many others. Additionally, he created workflows, procedures, manuals, checklists, and other related documents for ChemStaff's product lines. Writing many of these documents required Bryan to teach himself how to use unfamiliar software and conduct extensive research into work processes.
The documents Bryan developed have allowed ChemStaff's consultants to increase their efficiency, productivity, and quality of their products.
Bryan's ability to apply research to the written word makes him particularly adept at developing product descriptions and documents related to product development. These documents could be internal or external to the company selling the product.