Large Stationary Target is one of the last untold tales of World War II, a naval history of men aboard seven sister ships who fought together in the Mediterranean, and again in Normandy on D-Day. The men were a classic cross-section of World War II America, volunteers and draftees from every corner of the land: farm hands, factory workers, pharmacists, and kids right out of high school. Their officers were reservists mostly, some fresh from college ROTC programs. The ships were a brand-new type invented during the war called the Tank Landing Ship, or LST for “Landing Ship, Tank” in the Navy’s nomenclature. They were big, about as long as a football field; ocean-going vessels but only just barely so. They had a flat bottom, so in heavy seas an LST would pitch and roll violently. But inside that flat-bottom an LST could carry twenty Sherman tanks for the army, or an equal weight in trucks and jeeps, plus hundreds of soldiers to man them. And with that flat bottom an LST could nose up onto a beach, open the bow doors, and out would roll those tanks, and trucks and jeeps and troops, ready for battle.Check for progress updates on my public Facebook page: USS LST 307.

Scott manages client services, system configuration, training, and support for Re:discovery's public sector and other clients. Most notably, Scott managed the major implementation of a custom version of Re:discovery (ANCS+) for the U.S. National Park Service in 1998, followed by upgrades in 2002 and 2006. Then followed development of the current ICMS version of Proficio that was delivered to all U.S. Department of Interior sites with museum property (approximately 350 sites) in 2009, with an upgrade in 2015. Scott’s expertise includes data migration; he personally completed the conversion to ICMS for several DOI bureaus, from a wide variety of source database formats.Among many projects Scott has managed, highlights include implementations at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, Seattle’s Museum of History & Industry, Utah State Parks, Mesa Southwest Museum (now the Arizona Museum of Natural History), and the Exhibits & Public Programs Division of the National Archives. Scott is also a member of the management and client services teams, providing direct technical assistance to clients for questions, training, and installation of Re:discovery software products.

Three seasons as a park ranger and six years as a museum technician at the Harry S Truman National Historic Site in Independence, Missouri. There he learned museum practices and became a regional support contact for the NPS collections management system (ANCS).