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CAPT(sel) Scott Kelly, USNR (ret)

Originally hailing from Ft Thomas, KY, Scott graduated from Georgia Tech in 1979 with a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering. After completing the UNFO pipeline and receiving his Wings Of Gold at the Naval Air Training Unit (NATU) Mather AFB and FRS training at VP-30, he joined VP-45 as a NAV/COMM shortly after the squadron’s return from their Bermuda deployment in 1981. He completed two deployments to Sigonella, qualifying successively as TACCO and Mission Commander, as well as numerous detachments to Rota and Souda Bay, Crete. He also participated in Unitas XXII in Natal, Brazil in the late summer of 1982. He held a variety of collateral duties in the squadron, and for his final 15 months was the TACCO NATOPS (blue-card) evaluator. retired wings

Following a tour at the US Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey CA for a Master of Science in Electrical and Computer Engineering, he returned to the Jacksonville area for a tour as the ASW Operations and Plans officer in USS FORRESTAL (CV-59), ultimately qualifying as one of the ship’s six Tactical Action Officers (TAO). In FORRESTAL he ran a Ship’s Weapons Coordinator (SWC) training program which came to be known as “SWC University.” During this period he also had two major articles published in the US Naval Institute Proceedings; the first, “Cheap New Smarts for Orion,” received an award for excellence in aerospace journalism from the Aviation-Space Writers Association in 1988. His second article, “Carrier ASW: Can Do,” was published in 1989.

His final active-duty tour was in the Naval Sea Systems Command in the CV-ASWM/CV-TSC shop, with additional duties in the Advanced Combat Direction System (ACDS) Block 0 and Block 1 shops, as well as supporting the AEGIS Combat Systems office (PMS-400).

Leaving active duty in the fall of 1991, he entered the Navy Reserve, affiliating first with Reserve Tactical Support Center 0466 at NAF Washington DC. After being accepted as an Aerospace Engineering Duty Officer, he spent the remainder of his naval career with NAVAIRRESCOM 0466 supporting the P-3, S-3 and H-60 shops at NAVAIR. Having selected for promotion to Captain, Scott retired from the naval reserve with 21 years of commissioned service in the fall of 2000.

After leaving active duty, Scott moved steadily away from government and defense work towards the private sector, but not before contributing to some interesting training simulators for the P-3 and overseeing the birth of the first workstation-based mission-critical combat system to be employed aboard US naval ships – the AN/SQQ-34(V) CV Tactical Support Center. Additionally, he led the team that designed and built the first microcellular wireless architecture used to automate the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange; a descendant of that system is still in use today.

During his civilian career, Scott spent two decades with Accenture, one of the world’s leading business and technology consultancies, and Avanade, Accenture’s joint venture with Microsoft and the world’s leading integrator of Microsoft technologies. He has served Fortune Global 100 clients on five continents, and led or planned the deployment of half a north florida million end-user computing devices and servers worldwide. Promoted to Associate Partner in 2002, he was promoted to Senior Executive (Partner) in 2005 before moving to Avanade to concentrate on delivering technology solutions based on the Microsoft stack.

Since retiring from full-time work in 2018, Scott has found his true calling as an adjunct professor of Computer Science at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville, where he teaches computer networking and distributed processing.