Hugh Scott
Adventurer at Microsoft Alumni Network
Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolHugh Scott is a seasoned IT and database professional with over 25 years of experience designing and operating high-availability enterprise systems, most recently as a Senior Cloud Solution Architect at Microsoft where he drove monitoring expansions and automation that materially reduced outages and labor costs. He has a proven track record of large-scale cost savings and recovery improvements—saving millions in licensing and infrastructure costs and accelerating recovery for multi-terabyte incidents. A former Army junior officer and linguist with a BA in Spanish/History and an MBA in IT, Hugh blends operational rigor, mentorship, and cross-functional leadership from government to Fortune 100 environments. Now embracing life as a full-time adventurer, he and his wife pursue languages and volunteer work on the road while staying curious about technical and cultural systems. That mix of disciplined systems thinking and a willingness to pause, learn deeply, and help in new communities is a distinctive through-line in his career and post-career pursuits.
8 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration, Information Technology, Master of Business Administration, Information Technology at The University of Texas at AustinBA, Spanish/History, BA, Spanish/History at William & Mary
Spanish, French, Dutch
Github Skills (7)
scom9
alerts8
management-pack7
system-center4
runas2
sql2
sql-server1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hmscott4/Network.File.Share
Oct 2018 - Mar 2023
Contributions:5 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 5 months
hmscott4/utilities
Jan 2018 - Feb 2023
Contributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 13 pushes in 5 years 1 month
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