He was president of the Student Art League and, while an under graduate, was published in Perceptual and Motor Skills, for his research in perception entitled "Effects of Social Influence in a Recognition Task of Auditory Intensity".

While president of DSI, he won the Outstanding AVID reseller award and McBrayer was selected by UPS for Excellence in Business for his Golden Rule approach to business-to-business marketing.

Under his leadership Digital Solutions created the DSI-AVID Educational Center to train professional editors in the latest film and television techniques.

In the mid-1990s, McBrayer also co-founded Z Post, LLC, a television production and post-production company with facilities in Atlanta and Los Angeles.

In 1999, McBrayer created, wrote (along with Touched by an Angel writer Bob Colleary) and executive produced a television pilot entitled Postcards From Heaven, starring Marion Ross and John Haymes Newton[3] Postcards From Heaven won the Global Association of Independent Television Award for Outstanding Drama Programing in 2000.

In 2000, SABC aired "Hope for Africa", in Swaziland and more newspapers were sold that day in the paper's entire history because of the special brochure that was produced to accompany the series.

He later returns to his village with a truth and understanding his elders have failed to grasp: that the "curse" that is killing their people is in fact AIDS, a disease that can be prevented.

[6] McBrayer assembled an all South African production team and shot the film in just 26 days during the summer of 2002 on-location in Johannesburg and KwaZulu-Natal.

Starring Clive Scott and Owen Sejake, Beat the Drum premiered at the 2003 Mill Valley Film Festival.

[7] The feature film has won numerous international awards including the prestigious Montreal Zenith D'Or, which was televised live on Montreal television, and the Monaco International Film Festival Angel Award, the festival's top honor, presented to Mr. McBrayer by Miss France.

In its on-air interview with director David Hickson and young star Junior Singo (Musa) CNN called the movie, "Profoundly moving and spiritually uplifting."

Beat the Drum has won over thirty international film festival awards, including Best Picture, Best Director (David Hickson), Best Supporting Actor, (Owen Sejake), Best Actor (Junior Singo), Best Music (Klaus Badelt and Ramin Djawadi) and several Audience Awards[9] W. David McBrayer wrote and produced the movie.

[10] This non-profit project is on-going and provides family style housing, financial support, education, and medical care for orphans with HIV/AIDS.