User:Consul10t/"Scott Stuart Elliott"

Scott Stuart Elliott is known globally for his contributions and experience in high-tech and electronics design, manufacturing and supply chain management with over 30 years of engineering, management, consulting and entrepreneurial experience. He was (and is at this writing) the President and Founder of TechZecs LLC, a technology management consulting and interim executive firm.

Born in Aberdeen, Washington in October of 1946, Scott grew up in Covina, a blue-collar suburb of Los Angeles, California with three brother. His father Clark Raymond Elliott was a carpenter and building contractor and his mother Bessie Billing Elliott worked as a secretary. Scott did very well in high-school and in 1964 he was admitted to the University of California at Berkeley to study Engineering. He supported himself with part-time work through his university studies and was admitted to the post-graduate school at UC Berkeley in the Electrical Engineering program, studying Lasers and Quantum Electronics under Professor John R. Whinnery. The years at UC from 1962 to 1972 were exciting and challenging, as UC Berkeley was a major center of protest about the War in Vietnam, the Civil Rights Movement and the Free Speech Movement. The intense engineering studies, self-support and challenge of philosophical principals forged Elliott's drive and intellect through his career. In 1970, while still a graduate student, he married Ann Tollefsen Elliott - an artist also studying at Berkeley.

Upon receiving his Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering in 1972, Scott took an engineering job at a small company in Palo Alto called Physical Electronics Laboratories. Within a year he was the R&D Manager of that company, showing his talent for management and organization. When the company was purchased by Addington Laboratories in 1975, Scott decided to return to school to study for a PhD degree. He was admitted to the University of California at Santa Barbara in September of 1975 to study Ultrasonic Imaging under Professor Glen Wade. He completed his PhD thesis on an Optically-Addressed Ultrasonic Imaging System in 1978 and went to work as an R&D Engineer at the Hewlett Packard Microwave Technology Center in Santa Rosa, California in July of 1977. He worked for HP in various capacities until 2000.

During his long career at Hewlett Packard, he served as an R&D Engineer, Project Manager, R&D Lab Director, Manufacturing Engineering Manager, Wafer Fab Operations Manager and in several other senior management positions. In 1994, Scott was the founder and worldwide manager of the Process Consulting business for Hewlett Packard's Test and Measurement organization (now Agilent Technologies), based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Later he led the Supply Chain consulting practice for Hewlett Packard Consulting.

In 2000, Scott left HP to join his friend John Carter at Product Development Consulting, Inc., a boutique consulting firm based in Boston Massachusetts. There he made contributions to many clients in the area of improving Research and Development. In 2001, he left PDC to start his own boutique consulting and interim executive management firm called TechZecs LLC.

As a Consultant and Interim Executive Manager, Scott has helped many companies large and small. In addition to management and consulting, Scott has served on two Boards of Directors, holds two patents and has authored or co-authored over 60 publications on technology, R&D and Technology and Business Management. He is a frequent speaker and instructor on management, technologies, trends and best practices in electronics and optical design and manufacturing.

Scott holds bachelor of science, master of science, and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California (Berkeley and Santa Barbara). He is a senior member of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of Sigma Xi. He was one of the first industrial sponsors of the MIT Leaders for Manufacturing program.