Brett Scott

Current

• CTO - Primary IP Contributor at LiveSquare Security
• Consultant / Developer at Phoenix Capital / Kwikmed

Past

• Web Applications Developer at Easy Loan Tracker
• Consultant at Wells Fargo
• Consultant at Insight Enterprises

• Consultant at Cashx.com
• Consultant - Author of Original 6.Net at Six Sigma Qualtec, Inc.
• Consultant at Intel
• Consultant at Pentawave, MPI
• Consultant at Epic Solutions
• Consultant at Computer Guidance Coporation
• Consultant at Salt River Project
• Consultant at American Express
• Consultant at Franchise Finance Corporation of America
• Consultant at Eyecare Plan of America
• Developer at Global Mecca
• Consultant at Blue Cross Blue Shield Atlanta
• Consultant at Allied Signal
• Consultant at Genuity / Internet Media Networks

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Education

• Gilbert Leadership
• Arizona State University
• FastTrac New Venture

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Industry

Computer Software

Brett Scott’s Summary

Commercial software design and development. Problem solver. Hard core technical knowledge with direct expertise in its application to business. Over 20 years of professional experience. Proven team management skills. Security consultant with front line experience in the medical and major media arenas.

Brett Scott’s Specialties:

cyber security, start-ups, software design / architecture, software development, project management, investor relations

Brett Scott’s Experience

• CTO - Primary IP Contributor

  LiveSquare Security

  (Computer & Network Security industry)

  August 2004 — Present (5 years)

  Chief intellectual property contributor. Live Square Corporation offers several products; 1) Streaming Media Defender (formerly ipStreamSecure(tm)) that fixes the hole in Microsoft's DRM security system 2) Our Active Global Defense Network a proactive anti-cyberwarfare technology.
  Streaming Media Defender secures streaming media from piracy threats such as recording, reflecting, and other known methods. Additionally, Streaming Media Defender compliments the DRM security model by enforcing true compliance with the purchased licensing.
  Additionally, Live Square has a professional services team offering security consulting and secure software development. The Live Square Security Team is working on projects in the medical and major media markets.

• Consultant / Developer

  Phoenix Capital / Kwikmed

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

  August 2003 — Present (6 years)

  Front end e-commerce sales, through reporting, administration, CRM, email systems. Coordinating a small development team, 60 days later they were fully operational on the new system. System reliability has improved dramatically and customer satisfaction is at an all time high. The company is consistently reaching record numbers for sales, customer retention, and transaction volume. At the core of this company's processing is a private computing grid that handles common tasks and is "cycle scavenging" from the office based PC's and several remote facilities. Technologies: Private Grid Computing / distributed computing / internet computing, ASP, ASP.net, Visual Basic 6.0, VB.net, MS SQL Server 2000, RealBasic, stored procedures, Windows XP, SQL, Visual Source Safe, COM architecture, JavaScript, object oriented middle tier, requirements gathering, technical documentation, systems design, neural computing, .Net, proprietary TCP/IP communications, encryption, project management.

• Web Applications Developer

  Easy Loan Tracker

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Real Estate industry)

  April 2005 — May 2005 (2 months)

  Development of a web based application for tracking and managing newly required real estate documents submitted during the transaction. The documents are the Loan Status Report (LSR) and the Loan Status Update (LSU). The system allows the buyer, realtor, or finance company to create a file update the relevant parties and be in full compliance with Arizona law relating to new purchases.

• Consultant

  Wells Fargo

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Banking industry)

  February 2003 — August 2003 (7 months)

  Neural computing project interfacing with a legacy main frame system via Extra. Bi-directional updates and queries. Managing loan pipelines, productivity portal, workflow and job routing, automation, pipeline monitoring and reporting, error / defect detection and automated response. The project also was a solution for business continuity planning with a complete loan pipeline migration and load balanced redistribution within 1 hour to any number of alternate business facilities.

• Consultant

  Insight Enterprises

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  January 2003 — April 2003 (4 months)

  Hired as a contractor to analyze, debug, and enhance a VB, COM, Java, MS SQL Server application used to add, delete, and maintain the company's product offerings. In two months over 100 bugs were eliminated, customer satisfaction was achieved. Next several new powerful functions and screens were added to the application which dramatically increased the user productivity and increased system reliability. Ultimately, the way was cleared for new systems development for a SAP conversion.

• Consultant

  Cashx.com

  (Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Financial Services industry)

  July 2002 — January 2003 (7 months)

  Hired as a contractor. After inhaling over 65,000 lines of Visual Basic and ASP code, I completed and delivered their fully functional web site within 2 weeks. This involved substantially re-working the majority of the application code developed prior to my arrival. As part of the rollout I was required to orient myself to the company's database structure (SQL Server 2000) of approx. 500 + database objects (Tables, Views, Stored Procedures). I developed nearly 18,000 lines of new code and re-worked over 30 stored procedures for our successful roll out. The rollout was smooth and un-eventful.
  Systemically, I re-designed and developed the web site and ASP / VB applications supporting the sites operation. Developed a customer support suite to assist the technical support group in resolving customer issues. Developed a reporting package for management to view system trends, business trends, and basic financial reporting.

• Consultant - Author of Original 6.Net

  Six Sigma Qualtec, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Management Consulting industry)

  November 1999 — July 2002 (2 years 9 months)

  Hired as a contractor to analyze, design, and develop a product that is a combination project manager, document creation, knowledge management, and document management system for the practice of Six Sigma. I was placed under a Vice President and reported directly to him. The tool is called 6.Net. It is an expert system for the "Six Sigma" industry and serves as a vertical portal operating as an ASP service. This product is used at some of the worlds largest companies to enhance performance, save money, provide accountability, and to be a publishing platform for local project managers to each other within an enterprise organization. I also authored three "Off-Line" tools that would collect data via a Windows application and EDI (electronic data interchange) the data back to the server via an XML architecture. XML data transfer down to the "off-line" system and a very efficient and cool mechanism to transfer the data back based on a HTTP 1.1 and Windows sockets protocols.

• Consultant

  Intel

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  June 1999 — September 1999 (4 months)

  Hired as a contractor. My main duties include mentoring, and providing expertise to a development team of 10 people. The project is a groupware tool for the purpose of automating the planning and metrification of the computer chip manufacturing process. This suite of tools is being used by all of the planning groups worldwide.

• Consultant

  Pentawave, MPI

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  November 1998 — June 1999 (8 months)

  Hired as a contractor. My initial duties included working with the VP of Research and another developer to review and enhance the technical specifications for an on-line job brokering system. This included a review of the data schema, the technologies and methodologies to be utilized. Once the specifications had been stabilized, my duties were to create the Job Seeker side of the system. I completed a fully functional product prototype within 45 days. This system is currently being reviewed, enhanced, and functionally upgraded where requested. This company was subsequently purchased by Gannet.

• Consultant

  Epic Solutions

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  August 1998 — October 1998 (3 months)

  Hired as a contractor. Worked with several project managers on several different projects. Initially I was asked to extensively modify the security system (a keystone function). Upon completion of that I was transitioned to the elimination of bugs in the existing software. I was then transferred to authoring numerous PL/SQL functions, procedures, and triggers for an Oracle 7.3 database. The PL/SQL systems that I developed were for a nationwide Random Drug Testing System, and an automated victim notification system. Following that, I was transitioned to the creation of GUI screens for one of their products. The product is a federal prison management software package for the governments of Australia and New Zealand.

• Consultant

  Computer Guidance Coporation

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  March 1998 — July 1998 (5 months)

  Hired as a contractor to assist in the enhancement and generation of a new revision of one of their commercial products. My primary function was to modularize their functionality and create a series of ActiveX controls to handle core system functions. While there I also installed Microsoft's IIS and created a web based seminar RSVP system with e-commerce.

• Consultant

  Salt River Project

  (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Utilities industry)

  February 1998 — April 1998 (3 months)

  Was hired for my experience with EDI and general analytical skills. The purpose of this project was the generation and implementation of a prototype billing system which would function under the new deregulation rules. I was also asked to review the company's Y2K programs.

• Consultant

  American Express

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  November 1997 — February 1998 (4 months)

  Analysis and Design of a semantical network monitoring, tracking, utilization, and problem reporting system. Develop a working prototype using Visual Basic 5.0 and document system design, standards, and testing mechanisms. This system was developed to quickly and accurately detect potential problems in both 3rd party and local networks and to attempt to diagnose the problem before reporting it to a team of specialists. This system also leveraged the data collected to create a 3rd party network utilization and tracking data warehouse. The information collected allows the technical staff to quickly solve a network problem in both local and 3rd party networks. Additionally, this system, using data leveraged from existing repositories, now offers the support team information that is not only extremely accurate, but was once thought impossible to obtain. This provided the customers with a much higher level of potential service from the company.

• Consultant

  Franchise Finance Corporation of America

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; Financial Services industry)

  June 1997 — August 1997 (3 months)

  Extensive work with the Coda Financials system. The project required analysis, design, and implementation. Implementation included the use of 16-bit class objects (in and out of process).
  Technologies : Oracle Objects for OLE, CODA financials, VB 4.0 16 and 32 bit., OLE classes, OLTP, Oracle Database, design and analysis, system optimization, documentation.

• Consultant

  Eyecare Plan of America

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Insurance industry)

  November 1996 — April 1997 (6 months)

  Designed a job-routing and scheduling system for internal use by the IS department. The system was authored in 18 weeks and is installed in all departments (from the desk of the CEO to the desk of the mailroom clerk). This system is used to handle all office procedural systems from the sales team to the technical support group. Additionally, I wrote several utility programs which were used by this system to perform system level tasks such as record processing and refining, file movement, data conversion, etc.

• Developer

  Global Mecca

  (Computer Software industry)

  1996 — 1996 (less than a year)

• Consultant

  Blue Cross Blue Shield Atlanta

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Insurance industry)

  July 1996 — November 1996 (5 months)

  Authored an ANSI x.12 EDI packet processing system along several X.12 related utilities and analysis tools. Was asked by the client to serve as a vendor liaison to STC a Pasadena, CA based EDI server firm. While serving in this capacity I was asked by the vendor to serve as a UNIX to NT migration consultant using the NutCracker suite of Unix to NT development tools and to serve as a beta tester.
  Technologies : installation, configuration, and beta debugging of STC's DataGate product for Windows NT, VB 4.0 32-bit, OLTP, ANSI X.12 parsing and generating, installation and configuration of MS SQL Server 6.5, data schema design and implementation, system analysis, optimization, reporting via Crystal Reports and dynamic HTML generators, documentation, training developers and users.

• Consultant

  Allied Signal

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

  August 1996 — November 1996 (4 months)

  Developed a 3270 terminal screen scraper program to capture additional information about engine failures. This project was badly behind schedule and several previous contractors failed to provide a solution. The project was ultimately successful despite several major specification changes and networking setbacks. This product is currently in use and has proceeded into its second phase of development.
  Technologies : Attachmate Controls, VB 4.0 16-bit, system design, database design, system analysis, MS Access, Oracle database, network design, customer relations

• Consultant

  Genuity / Internet Media Networks

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

  February 1996 — August 1996 (7 months)

  My first duties were to assist in the initial set-up and configuration of the company's networks, and to tackle any technical issues. Responsible for most of the design and continued configuration of the primary information systems. This involved developing applets, applications, and stored procedures to interface, customize, and enhance the Onyx Customer Center product. Additionally, I was used to develop other crucial applets and applications such as HTML generators, IIS and ISAPI web systems, an inventory tracking system, and an OLE architecture system for integrating all of the company's applications and systems. This involved systems like HP Open View, IIS Web serves, MS SQL server databases, Access Databases, Oracle databases, an EDI system, auditor programs, monitoring programs, and other such start-up and core systems development. During our involvement on this project I was also used as a consultant to customers of the company, and as a developer to the Parent Corporation.

Additional Information

Brett Scott’s Groups:

AZIPA Arizona Internet Professionals Association, AZ Tech Oasis, Arizona Technology Council, ScottNet, Former Board of Directors Member of East Valley Habitat for Humanity, Free and Accepted Masons Aaron Lodge #49 (Freemason), 32nd Degree Scottish Rite, 32nd Degree York Rite.

•    The DEMO Conference
•    Freemason@LI
•    On Startups - The Community For Entrepreneurs
•    Freemasonry
•    Ubuntu Users ( 9000+ members ) Official Group
•    Systems Thinking
•    Ancient Free & Accepted Masons (AF&AM)
•    AZIPA - Arizona Internet Professionals Association
•    Black Hat
•    Masons Worldwide
•    Information Security Community (30,000+ Members)
•    Six Sigma for Business
•    Arizona Technology Council
•    Science and Security
•    IT SECURITY EXPERT
•    Lodgeroom International
•    GENUiTY @lumni
•    Open GRID
•    grid computing
•    Six Sigma Consultants Network
•    Redteam: Association of Penetration Testers
•    Scottish Rite Freemasonry
•    York Rite Freemasonry
•    Information Security Experts
•    The Philosophy Network
•    York Rite Bodies
•    The P.I.T. : Professionals in IT
•    American Security Challenge
•    World of Freemasonry
•    HPC Professionals
•    Masonic Network
•    Phoenix Linux User Group
•    Council of Allied Masonic Degrees
•    Arizona Entrepreneurs
•    Organization of Brett Scotts
•    Cloud
•    AZ Entrepreneurs
•    NSA Information Assurance
•    Network Centric Warfare (NCW) C4ISR Networking Group
•    Gilbert Small Business Alliance
•    The Virtual Lodge
•    Friends of St Vincent & The Grenadines
•    Embedded Systems Security SIG
•    Privacy Architect Network
•    CYBER WARFARE Forum Initiative - CWFI
•    Cloud Security Alliance
•    Cyber counterintelligence

Brett Scott’s Honors:

2001 Distinguished Service Award - The Wildest Club in Town
2002 Six Sigma Qualtec Excellence in Customer Service award.
2002 East Valley Habitat for Humanity Dedicated Service Award.
2002 Arizona Association of Lifelong Learning Service Award
2003 Outstanding Contribution Award
2004 AALL Service Award
2005 Recognition for Outstanding Performance
2006 Excellence in Customer Service
2006 Gilbert Leadership - Take Charge Award for stepping up and making things happen

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