Scott is a technology advocate across the entire T&D arena. A veteran of FirstEnergy's smart grid development team, and later leading EPRI's smart grid substation lab and cyber security research lab, Scott is a hands-on, get deep in the weeds Engineer. Scott has been an active proponent of the Outage Data Initiative Nationwide (ODIN), including taking the initiative to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in 2022.