Scott Thompson
How it all started
Scott is a veteran systems architect and infrastructure engineer with over four decades of experience designing, modernizing, and scaling enterprise and mission-critical technology environments. His career spans early work at NASA and Digital Equipment Corporation, where he helped build some of the industry’s first Ethernet-connected PC infrastructures, through decades of large-scale systems architecture, virtualization, and data center modernization for major aerospace and enterprise organizations.
Early Career & NASA Work
Scott began his career in 1980 as a Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) VAX Systems Manager supporting the NASA Life Sciences Division at NASA/JSC in Houston, Texas. He later moved into the NASA Mission Operations Directorate, where he designed and managed one of the industry’s earliest Ethernet-connected PC infrastructures.
This environment included a VAX-11/750 system and a Britton Lee hardware database supporting astronaut training under a McDonnell Douglas contract with NASA in 1985. This pioneering work with Ethernet and 3COM products led Scott to collaborate directly with Bob Metcalfe, founder of 3COM.
Systems Architecture & Integration
Following the 1997 merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing, Scott evolved into the role of Design Systems Integrator and Systems Architect for large-scale application infrastructure. His responsibilities included gathering requirements from application stakeholders and designing both “as-is” and “to-be” infrastructure models.
This work focused on servers, storage, and networking architectures to support new application deployments while modernizing legacy systems across the enterprise.
Virtualization & Large-Scale Systems Design
For more than 20 years, Scott designed and planned the deployment of complex systems heavily leveraging virtual servers and virtual storage. His work included real-time, long-distance data replication of datasets as large as 14TB.
These systems supported major initiatives, including flight testing for the Boeing 787, among many other large-scale, mission-critical projects.
Tech Stack
The Tools I Work With
It’s always good to receive positive and constructive feedback for your work – from clients and moreover, from designers!
QNAP
Incus Containers
Unifi
Hubitat Elevation
