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Michael David Scott (born March 25, 1965) is a dual Australian / Kiwi nationality Electrical Engineer / Electronic Engineer / Computer Scientist.

Early life
Born at National Women's Hospital to Graham (a builder), and Trin (a seamstress), Michael lived the first part of his life in Harris St, Pukekohe. When he was 2, the family moved to a house built by Graham at 12 Tuakau Rd, Pukekohe. He attended Pukekohe Hill primary school until the family moved to 55 Kitchener Rd, Waiuku, at which time he attended View Rd Senior School.

Education
He initially attended Waiuku College, but after 6 months, was offered a boarding scholarship at Auckland Grammar School. At the end of the third form year, he moved back home and continued his secondary education at Waiuku College.

Following high results in the 1980 School Certificate exams, he was subsequently accredited University Entrance in 1981, and attained an A Bursary in 1982, as well as sitting scholarship examinations in Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Physics. After being initially accepted as 1 of 10 intakes into the RNZAF as a avionics technician, he decided to attened Auckland University. He missed out on direct entry into the Electrical Engineering 1st Professional Year by one place and subsequently took an intermediate year, being exempt Mathematics papers (because of scholarship marks) and replacing them with Computer Science papers.

He then studied Mechanical Engineering First Professional year and switched to Electrical Engineering at the end of the year, being exempt from some engineering papers and swapping them for further Computer Science papers. In his final year of Electrical Engineering, he took further Computer Science papers. He was completed the requirements for a degree of Bachelor of Electrical Engineering with various Certificates of Proficiency in Computer Science in 1987 and graduated in May 1988.

Early Career
He initially worked as a Control Systems Engineer for Allen Bradley where he almost exclusively programmed the control systems for automated industrial bakeries for APV Baker, initially at Tip Top East Tamaki, then at Tip Top, Dry Creek He was offered (and accepted) a job as Engineering Manager of QTech Systems and handed his one month notice in to Allen Bradley. It was during the final installation under contract for APV Baker at Tip Top in Adelaide that he was offered a position as Control Systems Engineer for APV Baker based in Melbourne.

He tendered his one month notice to QTech Systems on the day he started, served the one month, then moved to Melbourne, Australia, based in the APV Baker Springvale office.

Gerry Wawra, Michael's supervisor at the time, had wanted to implement a variable proof bake time algorithm (since in control systems at the time, proof time determined bake time as a proportion), and this was implemented in the 8,000 loaf/hr production line Tip Top Adelaide, located in Dry Creek, and thereafter in the 6,000 loaf/hr line, and the roll plant. The software was concurrently deployed in the new Cobbity Farm Country Bake 8,000 loaf/hr and 6,000 loaf/hr production lines located in Carina, Queensland.

The software was also deployed in the Buttercup Bakeries 8,000 loaf/hr and 6,000 loaf/hr production lines in the new Burleigh Heads plant. Michael was subsequently offered and accepted the position of Plant Engineer, with the mandate to reduce production waste and increase efficiencies. Eighteen months later, this was achieved, and he was made redundant.

Contract Work
Following redundancy from Buttercup, Michael took a number of engineering contracts including:
 * Standards generation for White Mining
 * Programming changes Buttercup Bakeries Burleigh Heads
 * Mt Thorley Open Cut Mine Dragline stop / start control system
 * Management Information Production Line Computer installations - ACI Glass Packaging Brisbane Perth and Kuala Lumpur Glass Kuala Lumpur
 * Control system changeover during online production BHP Refractories Mayfield
 * Process improvement / production waste reduction Shinagawa Thermal Ceramics Unanderra
 * Gas analyser communications drivers Santos Gas Pipeline, inland New South Wales/inland Queensland
 * Commissioning Engineer Olympic Dam copper smelter
 * Production efficiency improvements CSR Door Panels Oberon
 * Cost estimation of a Nitric Acid plant Orica Kooragang Island
 * General engineering, high voltage operations Orica Kooragang Island

Power Utility Career
Michael accepted a 12 month contract at Ausgrid and subsequently accepted a permanent role as a Senior Engineer and undertook the following:
 * Designed parallel operations
 * General SCADA
 * Telecommunications for Power System Protection
 * Reliability analysis
 * Standardised design for 400 substations
 * Lead team of design engineers

Post Ausgrid
AGL - lead integration of a 6.6kV 6MW motor

"Retirement"
Volunteer: Variety Volunteer: Belmont Church Javascript - client based apps, and conversion of client/server apps to pure client apps including Terminal Emulators, virtual PLCs, virtual whiteboards, knowledge base engines, climate change models