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Creative.  Results-driven. Motivated.  Inquisitive.  Risk-taking. Innovative.  Spirited. Ethical.  Fun.   These attributes aren’t things easily discernable from a resume.  They are, however, the core characteristics Stratacomm looks for when someone wants to join us.  

Those making the cut are a balance of seasoned professionals and rising stars. They are experts in transportation, energy and environment, infrastructure, defense and security, education, and healthcare, to name but a few areas.  They are digital experts, policy wonks, powerful writers, special events mavens, and media junkies.  This rich and varied blend of people and expertise allows us to build customized account groups that are tailored specifically for each client’s particular needs.  Our people embrace a challenge and dig in to help our clients win. We create a dynamic culture that brings out the collective’s very best work.

We value the individual and cultivate the team. Together, we work hard, have fun, and understand that our reputation is built (and maintained) by two things: unmatched client service and winning results.

Bryon Johnston

Vice President

  • Helps lead the Infrastructure Team
  • Track record of successful Transportation Mega Project public relations campaigns
  • Strategic thinker, adept at helping clients successfully address and overcome their toughest media and community relations challenges

Bryon came to Stratacomm in 2009 with a wealth of experience in strategic and crisis communications, media relations and community outreach. An excellent writer, manager and a strategic thinker, he excels at working on complicated high-profile transportation and infrastructure projects.

Most recently, Bryon has been embedded with the District Department of Transportation as the Public Information Manager for the agency’s largest-ever construction project – the $300-million 11th Street Bridge Project. His efforts have been credited by the client and key community stakeholders as having changes perceptions of the project from controversial to being a model and the “gold standard” for how DDOT and such projects should do communications and outreach.

Previously, Bryon managed communication and outreach programs for other high-profile transportation projects and facilities, such as the Woodrow Wilson Bridge Project  in Washington DC for URS Corp. and Chesapeake Bay Bridge, the Fort McHenry and Baltimore Harbor Tunnels and I-95 Express Toll Lanes on the John F. Kennedy Highway for the Maryland Transportation Authority. Adept in working in politically-sensitive, major-media environments, he was a Communications Director in the Office of Maryland’s Lieutenant Governor, a staffer in Maryland’s General Assembly, school district community liaison and daily newspaper reporter.

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