PORTFOLIO: Learning Management System and Tools (2003-2005)

Jim Bruno, Lead Technologist and Architect
Lead Instructional Designer, including UI, UE, Interactivity
Includes Class Manager, Assignment Manager, Student Performance Center

SINCE 2005: Holt, Rinehart and Winston’s (now Houghton Mifflin Harcourt) web presence went from zero in 1997 to one that currently has tens of millions of registered users, generates billions of hits annually, contains 750 eProducts, and provides web-based resources for an additional 500 traditional print products.

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“Jim and I met during new employee orientation at the old Holt educational publishing company in 1995. We were numbers 5 and 6 in a rapidly growing "new media" department and shared a passion and excitement for what we had signed on to do. What a time. That passion and excitement IS Jim Bruno.... We collaborated on some of the most excellent educational product development efforts of the last 20 yrs. - somewhere there are plaques and statues commemorating those products. Jim with the huge ideas and the ability to execute. I've seen Jim build consensus around good ideas when others failed. I've seen him grind out the details of a project over months of a development and production marathon. And we laughed - OMG we laughed. What a wicked sense of humor wrapped inside a genuinely compassionate, honest and generous human. I'm proud to be Jim's colleague. I'd love to work with him again.”

Ken Whiteside, Product Development Mgr., Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
worked directly with Jim at Jim Bruno Instructional Design — March 31, 2010