User:Samilliken

Biographical Facts
Scott Milliken has lived in the Southeastern United States for his entire life, mainly within the state of Tennessee. He has been a life-long nerd since the early 1980s, including participation in his high school drama club as the "lighting and sound guy" and one of those guys that would play chess in the cafeteria during lunch.

Professionally, Scott has held the following job titles:


 * Chinese Food Delivery Driver (Wok-n-Roll)
 * Pizza Delivery Driver (D-Vine Pizza)
 * Developer (Excalibur Integrated Systems)
 * Field Service Technician (Excalibur Integrated Systems, Compsee)
 * Sales Support Engineer (Excalibur Integrated Systems, Compsee, Sun Microsystems)
 * Wireless Network Engineer (Compsee)
 * Windows System Administrator (IMS Health)
 * UNIX System Administrator (IMS Health)
 * Network Engineer (Bluestar Communications)
 * Industry Analyst (Sun Microsystems)
 * Data Center Manager (Vanderbilt University)
 * Change Manager (Vanderbilt University)
 * Computer Facility Manager (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Hobbies
Scott has a collection of Golden Age Science Fiction comic books - including titles from EC, Fox Feature Syndicate, Ziff-Davis, and more. His oldest book is from the Platinum Age, and is the "Illustrated Book of Stories for Boys and Girls" from the 19th century.

Scott is also an avid home brewer, and primarily works with extracts, mainly due to the decreased time requirements over all-grain brewing.

Scott enjoys riding his Honda ST-1100 through the beautiful scenery of East TN, including the Smoky Mountains and Deal's Gap, which are a mere 30 minutes away.

Involvement in 2600 and PhreakNIC
In 1999, Scott moved from Atlanta, GA, back to Nashville, TN and began attending the local chapter meetings of 2600. He attended his first PhreakNIC conference in 2000, which was the fourth year of existence and the first in the Days Inn Airport, which is no longer in business. In 2001, JonnyX, who had previously been the driving force (with help) behind organizing the previous conferences, announced that he would soon be moving to Atlanta to pursue better job opportunities. The heir apparent for PhreakNIC had been Allison Randal, who was the leader of the Nashville Linux Users Group. However, Allison was also moving on to greener pastures - specifically Oregon and the Perl Foundation. At that point Scott stepped up and decided to produce (again, with the help of many others) PhreakNIC 5, including a move to a new venue.

After PhreakNIC 5, Scott set about to create a more sustainable organizational structure for both the local 2600 Organization and PhreakNIC in general. Through support of the local community, a non-profit Nashville 2600 Organization was incorporated in the State of Tennessee with the main purpose of producing an educational conference to the technological and hacker community each year, also known as PhreakNIC. Scott served as President of Nashville 2600 Organization, Inc., from 2001 until 2008. He has remained involved in PhreakNIC as a director for 2009-present.

Open Source Contribution
Scott is also the primary developer for openDCIM (http://opendcim.org), a web based data center infrastructure management application. It was initially developed when he worked at Vanderbilt University, and permission was granted by the administration to release it as open source. He continues to work on the project in his role at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.