Achievement

“Scott is a skilled designer, with a fine pedigree—academic and practical—both in software engineering and in design.” – Alan Cooper, “Father of Visual Basic”, Founder, Cooper Design, author of "The Inmates are Running the Asylum"

• Designed the popular PlaceWare Web Conferencing Center, (now Microsoft Live Office) noted for ease of use.
• Designed a software product, Merge Ahead, showcased on front page of Sun World magazine and praised for the product's extreme ease of learning and use.
• Recognized by UNIX World editorial for pioneering work in Prescient Agent technology.
  " Praised in the Practical Programmer column of Communications of the ACM for SWIFT development methodology that shortened development time as much as 70%.
• Managed a team to salvage a rapidly deteriorating development schedule for the division's flagship product. Analyzed the problems, introduced organizational changes and was able to meet the product's original delivery date.
• Acquired rights to a product and founded a start-up software company performing all management functions from acquisition of capital through sign up of re-sellers to the recruitment of a management, development and marketing team.
• Published author of technical articles in several technical journals.
• Instructor for technology and management courses at University of California, Berkeley and Santa Cruz including Design for Usability and Project Risk Management. Faculty Practitioner at University of Phoenix Online teaching Management of Innovation and R&D and other MBA courses.