He completed his first flood insurance study for Caldwell County, NC in 1985 and submitted the first all-digital flood map study to FEMA for a flood insurance study in 1988 with AutoCAD 2.67 using monochrome monitors on an IBM-AT computer!

He attended his first ASFPM Conference in Asheville, NC in 1990 and has been hooked on ASFPM ever since! He has served on the board of the North Carolina Association of Floodplain Managers since the early 1990’s and was president from 1994 to 1995 and supported the formation of the South Carolina Association for Hazard Mitigation. Scott was a Chapter Director for ASFPM from 1998 to 2001.

In 1999, Scott presented to the first TMAC committee (1995-2000) under the chairmanship of Mark Riebau. The presentation focused on the automation of hydrology, hydraulics, and mapping to improve the accuracy of unnumbered A-Zones.

Scott participated in several ASFPM Administrative Councils (ADCO’s). Probably the most memorable was the 1999 ADCO held in Charlotte, NC. At the time ASFPM was struggling with finances and this ADCO set a plan in place for a strategy to make ASFPM financially secure.

Scott was the program chair for 2000 ASFPM Conference in Austin, Texas. Throughout his career he has supported staff to participant in and attend ASFPM conferences. In most of the past 20 years, he has a sizable number of people to the ASFPM Conference. In 2023, 56 staff were sent to the conference from his firm. Scott has shown that one can fully dedicate yourself to a worthy cause and can still have a good time!

Below is a summary of his activities that have helped ASFPM and our members over the years:

• He assisted Dave Canaan of Charlotte-Mecklenburg to become the first community to map future conditions in 2000 with support from ASFPM.
• Scott joined the ASFPM Foundation in 2002 and was President from 2008 to 2014 following the footsteps of Larry Olinger. During that time, the Foundation continued having Gilbert White forums, supported scholarships and supported a flood manager simulation program to teach sound floodplain management. Scott has participated in all the ASFPM Foundation Forums.
• He was a contributing author of the Multi-Hazard Implementation Plan for FEMA in 2004
• Scott testified before the subcommittee on Housing and Community Development on Map Modernization in July 2005.
• Scott supported the generation of FEMA’s first nationwide risk assessment in 2006 based on 10 factors that were applied to nationwide datasets.
• Scott served on a National Academies Committee on Floodplain Mapping technologies from 2006-2007 which created the publication “Elevation Data for Floodplain mapping” formally titled “Base Map Inputs for Floodplain Mapping” chaired by David Maidment. This report which documented the current state-of-the-art for both base map and topographic data used for FEMA’s Map Modernization program.
• Scott was responsible for FEMA’s first study on climate change “The Impact of Climate Change and Population Growth on the National Flood Insurance Program” published in April 2011.
• In 2001 he participated in ASFPM’s Long Term Financial meeting with Larry Larson, Chad Berginnis, George Riedel, Greg Main, Brad Anderson and John Crofts.
• Scott worked with Larry Larson and Chad Berginnis in 2011 to help ASFPM develop a cost estimate to provide nationwide flood mapping for the nation. Scott collaborated with Alan Lulloff and Jeff Stone as well as several others on the project whose report was released in 2012, “Flood Mapping for the Nation”.
• Scott spoke at the UN on March 2013 about the dangers of climate change and flooding and the need to build resilient communities.
• Scott then served as Vice Chair for the second TMAC committee from 2014 to 2016 and was the lead for the “Future Conditions Risk Assessment and Modeling” published in December 2015.
• Scott was humbled to be invited in the inaugural class of ASFPM Foundation Fellows in 2016.