Industry Experience

Scott is an industry recognized, innovative digital imaging technologist and photographic scientist with strong leadership, business and management skills and over 36 years of experience in silver halide and electronic imaging. He also has significant experience and accomplishments in business analysis and the marketing of digital imaging services and turn-key solutions. He leverages knowledge of the business challenges with developing imaging technology to create and deploy advanced technology solutions for the consumer, professional and commercial imaging segments as they all move towards digital capture and output. Scott retains strong relationships with existing stakeholders in photographic markets and has shown the ability to create, sell and implement a technology and market vision. He has proven experience in  leading large implementation teams to the successful completion of complicated digital imaging projects including large scale system deployment and customer support.

Education

He received a B.S. in physics with honors from the University of Maryland at College Park in 1971, a National Science Foundation Research Fellowship and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

Industry Accomplishments

Partner, Brownstein & McCabe Associates, LLC 2007-Present

Scott provides strategic, technical and patent consulting services to the photographic and digital imaging industry. Clients include major hardware and solution vendors as well as photographic retailers and professional laboratories. He also continues to provide his advanced industry “vision” through numerous speaking engagements at industry trade shows and advanced technology conferences.

Senior Vice President, CTO, FujiFilm e-Systems 2000-2006

As CTO at e-Systems, Scott architected and managed the development of all of FujiFilm’s digital workflow solutions for the U.S. market, including PIC (retail) and PIC-Pro (Pro/Commercial) systems. These solutions are used by retailers such as Wal-Mart, Costco, Walgreen’s and Ritz Camera as well as in professional and commercial photo labs like H&H Color and Natural Color. With the growth of on-line photo storage and sharing sites, he envisioned, developed and championed the market to offer 4 hour web upload to retail print fulfillment at Ritz camera centers nationwide and subsequently 1 hour fulfillment at over 4500 Wal-Mart and Sam’s Clubs.

While CTO of Fuji Film e-Systems, he recognized the consumer market trend toward a growing mix of digital and film input and conceptualized, designed and managed the development of FujiFilm’s “Frontier Manager” mixed input workflow solutions. This represented a complete re-architecture of the retail lab workflow solution which and is currently installed at more than 4000 US retail locations and allows retailers to significantly reduce labor, improve throughput and remain competitive while providing timely output for intermixed consumer kiosk, film and 1 hour web customers simultaneously.

The success of these innovative, U.S. developed solutions resulted in Fuji abandoning all other retail workflow management concepts, including their domestically developed software and adopting Fuji Film e-systems technology for worldwide use.

Executive Vice President, CTO, Applied Graphics Technologies  1993-2000

Scott left Kodak in 1993, along with 17 colleagues from CD Imaging, to form a digital-imaging solutions business for Applied Graphics Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of digital imaging services to the U.S. publication industry. He led the company in its transition from traditional prepress and printing to fully integrated digital imaging workflows for internal and external customers alike and personally architected comprehensive image archiving strategies for some of the largest content providers in the world, including the New York Daily News, Time Magazine, Simon and Schuster, Buena Vista International (Disney) and Allsport Photography, as well as commercial image archives for customers including Hasbro, PGA TOUR, General Motors, Home Depot and Titleist.  In each case, Scott designed and integrated image archiving solutions using the latest digital technology applied to the unique needs and situation of the customer.

Under contract to FujiFilm USA, he architected and managed the development, launch and daily operations of the then developing market for on-line photo sharing and printing systems for national retailers including Wal-Mart and Ritz Camera. This included not only the consumer upload and web sites, associated web servers and storage farms, but the development, integration, licensing and support of high speed image digitization and upload systems for retailers and wholesale photofinishers.  In addition, Scott also architected and was the principal developer of FujiFilm’s professional digital workflow solutions.

As the CTO of AGT, Scott also played an integral role in AGT’s successful IPO in 1996 as well as its subsequent secondary offering in 1997.

He also positioned and initiated negotiations that culminated in the purchase of the division by FujiFilm USA in December 2000.

Manager of Advanced Development, CD Imaging, Eastman Kodak Co.  1987-1993

Scott was the principal advocate and chief architect for the development and launch of the Kodak Photo-CD System. This included representing Kodak in all technical and IP negotiations with its consumer electronics partner Philips during which he advocated the development and adoption of the “multi-session” CDR standard.  He was also a the principle technical evangelist and personified Kodak’s imaging and market expertise to “Silicon Valley” companies, including Microsoft, Apple and Sun Microsystems.

Laboratory Head, Color Thermal Printing Systems, Eastman Kodak Company 1985-1987

He recognized the early potential of non silver based dye sublimation printing technology and initiated both the funding and the research on D2T2 technology at Kodak and subsequently led and managed the team that developed and launched Kodak’s dye sublimation thermal printing technologies for consumer, ID and military markets. This included managing the technology partnership with a variety of Japanese hardware manufacturers including TDK and Hitachi.

Photo Systems Advanced Development, Eastman Kodak Co   1979–1985

In this capacity, he developed numerous single use camera system concepts, innovative photofinishing systems as well as a variety of advanced electronic imaging systems, including  negative film to video transfer solutions aimed at allowing high quality film captured images to be used in electronic venues.  Scott worked in conjunction with CCD developers at Kodak to build and optimize frame transfer solid state sensors tailored to negative film video viewing. His innovative consumer film to TV player prototype was publicly shown at PhotoKina in 1982, pointing the direction for film capture and electronic display.

Scott was also the driving force behind the first concepts and prototypes for consumer operated, video viewing, negative printing kiosks which eventually were launched by Kodak as the “Create-A-Print,” the predecessor to today’s Kodak Picture Maker.

Research Associate, Kodak Research Labs 1971-1979

Scott was an internal development consultant responsible for mathematical modeling, aims generation and the monitoring and analysis of color, tone and image structure performance for new Kodak film and paper systems.  In this capacity,  he was a significant contributor to the development of numerous Kodak products in the consumer, professional and commercial market, including high speed negative and reversal films as well as  new photographic papers.

Scott also developed unique models and performed complete systems analysis of integrated film/camera and photofinishing solutions such as high speed photographic printers including their associated color and density correction algorithms.

 

Patent and IP Consulting

 

In addition to authoring 18 US patents, Scott has often provided technical and strategic patent consulting at both Fuji and Kodak. In this capacity, he often assisted counsel in determining the scope of potential infringement as well relying on field and bench experience to research and vet applicable prior art. Some of his areas of expertise include silver halide media design, imaging hardware design, digital workflow management, color management, image processing, color hard copy technology, web imaging and general imaging software.

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