Work

Senior Software Engineer

2023 - Present · Phoenix, AZ / Remote

Primary engineer at a legal services firm specializing in asbestos claims. Introduced engineering best practices to a previously ad-hoc team.

• Achieved 20x improvement in legal claim processing throughput through automation
• Ported legacy WordPress sites to Statamic CMS with zero-downtime cutover

Founder & Lead Engineer

2021 - 2025 · Seattle, WA

Founded an interactive media company at the intersection of gaming and blockchain. Built Orbiter 8, a fully on-chain decentralized space MMO, and PolyDice.

• First place, Moonriver Grants Hackathon, gaming category (April 2022)
• First place, Bobabeam Bridging Hackathon: $3,500 (August 2022)

Software Engineer III

2016 - 2021 · Seattle, WA

Five years on the engineering team of one of North America's largest Magic: The Gathering retailers, working across e-commerce, fraud prevention, and infrastructure.

• Implemented fraud detection that eliminated $100,000+ in annual credit card losses
• Brought the legacy payment codebase into PCI compliance

Contributor / Author

2018 - 2019 · Greater Seattle Area

Paid author covering blockchain gaming and Ethereum technology — the first time Scott was paid to write.

• First paid writing credit: 'Ethereum''s Hard Fork Constantinople: What You Need to Know' (January 2019)
• Interviewed Chris Clay, director of MTG Arena, on joining Immutable's Gods Unchained (August 2019)

Senior Software Engineer

2015 - 2016 · Seattle, WA

Rebuilt two stock media e-commerce platforms — StockFuel.com and StockMusic.net — from scratch.

• Rebuilt StockFuel.com and StockMusic.net from scratch in Laravel, Bootstrap, and AWS
• Integrated AWS S3 and CloudSearch; implemented continuous integration via SemaphoreCI

Consultant

2013 - 2013 · Boulder, CO

Nine-month consulting contract building HTML5 interactive modules and leading a CMS migration. Clients included CSU Global.

• Migrated a primary client website to Concrete5
• Built jQuery widgets and HTML5 interactive modules for CSU Global

Software Developer

2012 - 2012 · Boulder, CO

Digital agency work spanning Unity3D, HTML5, and multimedia web — including a networked satellite-imaging education app for Digital Globe.

• Built a networked Unity3D client-education experience for Digital Globe on iPad
• Shipped HTML5 presentations for Microsoft targeting pre-release Windows 8 / IE10

Community Platform Project Lead / Senior Web Developer

2009 - 2010 · Boulder, CO (dev team in Dundee, Scotland)

Led the community web platform for APB: All Points Bulletin — a live shooter with hundreds of thousands of concurrent users at launch.

• Platform supported hundreds of thousands of concurrent users at launch
• Built a localized, international community experience as the public face of a AAA MMO

Founder / Owner

2008 - 2009 · Boulder, CO

Founded a company around "Digital Theatrics" — bringing game IP to life on social media, in character. Original concept; nobody else was doing it.

• Created the original 'Digital Theatrics' social media IP-activation concept
• Mushroom Men campaign outperformed all other social campaigns at the publisher before the 2008 crash ended it

Virtual Community Guru

2007 - 2008 · Denver/Boulder, CO

Designed and launched the Gaia.com community platform from the ground up — 700,000+ members in nine months.

• Platform reached 700,000+ members in 9 months
• Designed the full community experience from scratch: information architecture, onboarding, engagement systems

Director of New Media

2004 - 2007 · Plano, TX

Ran websites, online community, and internal tools at the studio behind Brothers in Arms — including one of the largest game developer forums of its era.

• Grew and ran one of the largest, most active game developer forums of the era
• Built a custom PHP MVC framework from scratch; later led migration to CakePHP

Junior Game Programmer (Contract)

2003 - 2004

Brought in near the end of production to help finish and ship Dead Man's Hand for Atari — Scott's most direct AAA programming credit.

• Shipped a AAA title: enemy AI, UI, mini-games, animation scripting, and environmental effects on Dead Man's Hand

Director of Web Development

2001 - 2002 · Texas

Built and ran the companion website for a short-lived DVD videomagazine founded by the GodGames founders after the Take-Two acquisition.

• Built and managed the companion website for the DVD videomagazine

Webmaster / Online Programmer

1997 - 2001 · Dallas / Austin, TX

The web presence behind a major game publisher — a CMS that ran Take-Two's primary sites for over a decade, and 20+ shipped-game credits.

• Built the CMS that ran Take-Two's primary websites for more than a decade
• GodGames.com redesign nominated for SXSW Best Online Gaming Site

Co-Founder

1999 - 2000 · Texas

Scott's first company — a web development firm co-founded with friends, with Gathering of Developers as the anchor client.

• Founded and ran a web development firm with a major game publisher as anchor client

Technical Support

1995 - 1997 · Muenster, TX

The very first tech support hire for a rural Texas town's brand-new Internet service — helping people get online for the first time.

• First technical support hire for a brand-new rural ISP at the dawn of the consumer Internet