In 1997, while with IBM, Scott created the personal brand “Mr.eBusiness”.  Scott owned the domain name and hosted it at his friend’s ISP on Scott’s own personal Internet server hardware.  From this, he then created a small, successful IT consulting business focused on Internet Security.  When the dot-com he’d joined in 2000 blew up, he fell back on this practice to fund his family until his next full-time position came along.

In 2008, Scott decided to take a new direction and created the site 10GbE.net to support his new focus on extreme performance networking. For various personal reasons, this was a stealth marketing site, meaning that nobody knew who had created or managed it.  During its run, it offered over a dozen detailed blog entries, one each month, but more important were the product comparison tables.  There were 10, and they listed all available 10GbE network adapters by type, performance, price, and included links to how to acquire them.  There were also several tables listing all available switches, organized into various categories.  In 2009, this site saw over 20K page views and was referenced in a story in the Register at one point.

Scott took 10GbE.net offline in December 2009 to focus on other projects, but he’s recently returned to writing. He’s merged 10GbE.net, 25GbE.net, 40GbE.net, and 50GbE.net into this site.  In December 2010, Scott began tweeting under @40GbE, and in early 2018, he flipped it to @TecEvangelist as he moved everything to TechnologyEvangelist.co.