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Like many people in the modern age, Scott Andersen is working on his third career. He began his professional life as a public school teacher, working with K-4th grade students in Bloomington, Indiana, for the Monroe Country Community School System. During his teaching career Scott published a number of articles in professional magazines and journals, on subjects ranging from building model rockets with second graders to the results of a 3 month impact study on acid rain with second graders. During a summer school class Scott and his students developed a series of Hypercard stacks about Dinosaurs. These included images created by the students as well as sounds the students believed represented the sounds dinosaurs would make.
Scott was born in Evanston Illinois in 1960. He lived in Chicago until his 5th birthday when his parents moved to Bloomington Indiana. From 1965 to 1991 Scott lived in Bloomington Indiana. His family did leave Indiana for a stint in Bangkok Thailand in 1972 while his father worked for the UN's children and education agency. Scott attended Bloomington High School South graduating in 1979 and Indiana University graduating in 1984. Upon graduation with his teaching degree Scott began teaching school working in Kindergarten, Pre-First, Second Grade and Fourth grade as a school teacher. During this time he founded the Society of Dead Teachers (or DTS) an international teaching organization that spanned the globe with nearly 14,000 internet members at its peak.
Scott left Bloomington in 1991, moving to Ohio, where he had planned to continue his career in public education. Fate however had other plans at that time. While on the waiting list to join the Cincinnati Public Schools, Scott took work as a trainer for a local Computer training company. Scott began training customers on how to use applications and use of computer programs. Eventually Scott moved into sales, as the inside sales representative for a Louisville Kentucky based company CBM (Crocker Business Machines). Scott's newfound interest in technology led him to join Cincinnati-based "The Future Now", a rapidly expanding computer reseller, with a focus on small, medium and large businesses. Starting as a (Macintosh) helpdesk professional, he was rapidly promoted to Lead Engineer running the technical side of the helpdesk. After hours Scott worked with several other professionals as they struggled to build the first email system for the company. This solution included WAN based locations (Cincinnati, Columbus Ohio and Atlanta Georgia) as well as a number of dialup post offices. Eventually the internal IT team asked Scott to take over the mail system full time. There, Scott worked on improving the efficiency and performance of The Future Now's multi-vendor email system. He developed the Soft-Switch solution that connected the company's CC:mail, MSMail, MS Exchange and Lotus Notes email systems to IBM's AS/400 system.
It was shortly after finishing the Soft-Switch solution that Microsoft released the new messaging program Microsoft Exchange. Scott designed the first centralized mail system for the Future Now, consolidating mail to a single location to ease migrations for both servers and users. During this process he was offered a position by Microsoft Corporation as a messaging specialist. Scott focused on a number of Messaging compete solutions being the Great Lakes District lead for Notes Assessments (later Domino) and Messaging Connectivity.
At Microsoft, he held a number of leadership positions, ranging from the Microsoft's highest level Principal Consultant, and Senior Architect positions, to strategic and global positions of leadership in intellectual property and emerging technologies. During his 13 years with Microsoft, Scott has become globally recognized as a leader in messaging and collaboration architecture and technology, system migration and integration, and developing/delivering business solutions that exceed customer expectations. Many of these solutions have focused on moving off of Lotus Domino to Services Organization stack to Microsoft's collaboration platform.
Scott left Microsoft in 2011 and now works for an Aerospace company. He and his family packed up and moved east, now residing in Gaithersburg Maryland!
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