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.
Biography
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.
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.
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.
Services
Solutions for Your Business
It’s time to bring it all together. Nothing is more rewarding for me than making great work for clients with meaningful missions.
Skills
What I Am Best At
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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
