Scott Schanel

Scott Schanel has over 20 years of experience in software development and engineering. Scott is currently serving as the Sr. Director of Engineering at iGrafx, a position they started in March 2022. Prior to this, they worked at Searchspring from 2020 to 2022, first as the Engineering Director and then as the Development Manager - Personalization and Machine Learning.

From 2016 to 2020, Scott held various roles at 4-Tell, including VP of Engineering and Engineering Director. In these roles, they introduced CI and automated deployment processes, implemented Agile development practices, built a strong engineering team, and promoted a culture focused on automated testing. Scott also played a key role in transitioning to a decoupled system architecture and adopting modern front-end libraries.

Before joining 4-Tell, Scott worked as a Software Developer/Consultant at Schanel Software Development from 2001 to 2016, specializing in C++ programming. Scott also served as the Software Development Director at Tom Sawyer Software Corporation from 2000 to 2001 and as a Development Manager at Micrografx, Inc. from 1992 to 2000. Scott'searly career includes a role as a Software Engineer at Roykore, Inc. from 1991 to 1992.

Overall, Scott Schanel has a diverse background in software development, engineering leadership, and project management, with a strong focus on driving innovation and process improvement.

Scott Schanel received their Bachelor of Science degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Cornell University, completing their studies from 1987 to 1991. Scott also obtained several certifications, including Introduction to Corporate Finance, Introduction to Marketing, Introduction to Operations Management, Exploratory Data Analysis, Introduction to Financial Accounting, Getting and Cleaning Data, Process Mining: Data science in Action, R Programming, and The Data Scientist's Toolbox from various institutions such as Coursera Course Certificates and Coursera Verified Certificates between 2015 and 2016.