W. Scott Means

Scott was born and raised in Salem, West Virginia, which uniquely prepared him for a career in information technology. Ok, so it "uniquely prepared" him by forcing him to beg, borrow, and steal computer time until he could convince his parents to buy him a TRS-80 Color Computer in 1984. Being an active software developer since 1982 means that Scott has seen the rise of the personal computer first-hand. Hired by Microsoft at age 16, Scott was one of the original developers of OS/2 and Windows NT. Suffering from technology ADD, Scott has simultaneously been developing rich Web 2.0 applications based on Flex and RESTful web services while releasing iPhone apps. His pet project right now is an XML-based scripting language for quickly creating server-side mashups. He's also becoming more active in social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)