Professional
My search career began in 1993 when Mosaic, the first graphical web browser, was released. I realized that the Internet was about to change the world, so I started a “dot com” business, while still in high school, that designed and hosted websites while also developing content management and website search solutions. Alongside that special educational experience, I graduated with an engineering degree and MBA before going to work at JPMorgan, a management consulting firm, and several software vendors – all focused on knowledge management and various search solutions. I have had the truly unique pleasure of designing, developing, marketing, selling, implementing, and supporting nearly every search platform in the market across a variety of use cases, from enterprise-wide to niches like customer support and website search.
- Search Platform Experience: Algolia, Autonomy, Coveo, ElasticSearch, Google, IBM, Lucene, Solr.
- Representative Clients Across a Variety of Industries: Adobe, AT&T, Bank of America, Dell, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, Standard & Poor’s, United Healthcare, Waste Management, Xerox, and Zoom.
- Time Spent Implementing Search Platforms: 20,000+ hours.
- Time Spent Selling Search Platforms and Managing Customer Success or Business Outcomes: 14+ years.
“Scott is a human swiss-army kinfe; he has so broad a skill set, he can always find a way to deliver.”
– Scott Davis, CEO at Lyzasoft
“Scott is a strategic thinker and brilliant tactician rolled into one.”
– Tracy Chandler, Senior Manager at Accenture
“Scott has a rare talent for solving complex problems and clearly articulating how it’s done.”
– Daniel Hong, VP & Research Director at Forrester
“Scott is the cream of the crop. He is increidbly insightful and provides excellent guidance to his customers.”
– John Ragsdale, Distinguished Researcher at the Technology Services Industry Association (TSIA)
Personal
“Take chances, make mistakes, get out there and explore!”
– Miss Frizzle from the Magic Schoolbus
Living in Steamboat Springs, Colorado and now Prescott, Arizona, I’m an avid mountain biker and volunteer youth cycling coach, an avocational action sports and outdoor lifestyle photographer whose images have been used by recognizable names like Patagonia and Fox Sports while raising money for charity, a skier and snowboarder, a fly fisherman who often enjoys tying my own flies, an Eagle Scout who still loves to camp, a proud father, and a passionate humanitarian who believes “it is in giving that we receive.”