D. Greg Scott Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Area

Responsible for overseeing technical support services for a few large Red Hat customers in the financial and telecom industries.

Eagan, Minnesota, Usa

In "Trafficking U," A chance encounter plunges bank fraud analyst, Jesse Jonsen, out of her white-collar office into a street battle against sex traffickers and her own life choices.In "Virus Bomb" and "Bullseye Breach," middle-aged, bald-headed, Minnesota IT contractor, Jerry Barkley, is no superhero. He never worked for the government. He has no insider connections, he was never part of any think tank, and he wasn’t president of anything in high school or college.In "Bullseye Breach: Anatomy of an Electronic Break-In," after buying a box of cereal at Minneapolis based retailer, Bullseye Stores, Jerry became another victim after Russian mobsters invaded over the internet to steal forty million customer credit card numbers. But Jesse and Jerry taught the Russians they picked on the wrong victims.A few years later, after uncovering the largest cyberattack in history in "Virus Bomb," Jerry found a way to shut down the follow-on biological attack. Thousands of people lived because Jerry took action, even after nobody believed his warnings.Maybe Jerry really is a superhero. Because real superheroes are ordinary people who step up. Even when they don’t want to."Trafficking U," "Virus Bomb," and "Bullseye Breach; Anatomy of an Electronic Break-In" are available at booksellers everywhere. Enjoy the fiction. Use the education. Find more information at https://www.dgregscott.com/books/

Minnesota

Round 2 with Infrasupport starting Oct. 1, 2009. This time focusing on networks, security, and virtual IT infrastructure. I really can help your company do more with less.http://www.infrasupport.comI can build your virtual infrastructure the conventional way using proprietary, expensive tools. I can also build your virtual infrastructure using open source and much less expensive tools from Red Hat. If you're serious about doing more with less you should contact me. If you want to be in the cloud, your Internet connection is no longer just nice to have, it's your lifeline. If that Internet connection drops, so does your company. This means you need a backup Internet connection and a router that knows how to deal with backup Internet connections. I can help you set up an expensive, conventional, proprietary router, or if you're serious about doing more with less, I can set up a better router based on Red Hat open source technology. Passed the CISSP exam on Dec. 20, 2009 and took care of the official endorsement in March, 2010. Other technical certifications include RedHat RHCE, RHCVA, and Advanced System Administration Certificate of Expertise, VMWare VCP5 - Data Center Virtualization, VCP4 and VCP3, Microsoft MCSE, and DEC/Compaq/HP OpenVMS from a very long time ago. Also an expired Cisco CCDA and CCNA.

The Minnesota OAC was a nonprofit organization dedicated to connecting military families in the US with loved ones serving overseas via video teleconference. Ran several large family video teleconference events with the US Marines and Minnesota National Guard at venues including the Minnesota Twins, Gophers, and Vikings, the St. Paul Chamber of Commerce, St. Paul Saints, Serving our Troops, Tee it up for the Troops, and Tailgating with the Troops. Also connected dozens of families over the years in smaller, private settings, including one live birth at a local Twin Cities hospital. OAC in Minnesota eventually went dormant. Independent of the Minnesota OAC, another group with the same name started up in the San Diego area, with a mission to pack and ship care packages to the troops. When the Minnesota and San Diego OAC organizations learned about each other, the Minnesota OAC officially disbanded and gave the San Diego OAC its logo and name with its blessing. Today, Linda Millimaki and her group are doing great work and I count Linda as a good friend.I continue to run free video events for Military families with Tee it up for the Troops, Fishing for Life, and other groups as needed.

Independent consultant focusing on IT infrastructure services. Pioneered using standard video teleconferencing technology over the public Internet to make high quality face to face meetings affordable to small business. Helped customers cut telecom costs by connecting branch offices via secure tunnels over the Internet instead of traditional and expensive proprietary methods.

Help develop and implement technological approaches to enhance the business. Deliver highly technical IT consulting services to customers. Maintain and continuously improve the in-house IT infrastructure, Constantly look for ways to cut costs and enhance services for an especially demanding user base.

Taught the capstone course in Entrepreneurship, fall semester 2001.

Columnist - Wrote the ENT Heartland column on the back page of the magazine. Generated more reader email and comments than all other columnists combined.

Author of the Converts Corner column, chronicaling the experiences of a Windows guy learning about Linux. The magazine was an early victim of the .com bust.

Grew an IT consulting company from nothing to $1.2 million in annual sales.

Held a variety of positions as a 2nd level support specialist, consultant, project leader, and troubleshooter handling exceptional customer issues.

2nd in command in a 2 person IT shop. Developed one of the very first automated systems in the world to calculate financial assistance packages for students and model the results.

Mba, New Ventures

B.A., Math/Speech Double Major

Activities and Societies: Swim team

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