RWDI

A fascination with hang gliding launched Scott’s career. As Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Waterloo, his fourth-year project was an aerodynamic experiment on the airfoil of a hang glider using a wind tunnel. Four days after writing his final exam, Scott started at RWDI, hired by Colin Williams, who needed someone who knew their way around a wind tunnel. A planned motorcycle tour across North America was postponed.

Scott calls himself “an original Jack-of-all-trades.” He has done everything at RWDI from designing software and supervising model construction to pioneering snow loading technology and bridge, submarine, rocket and helicopter downwash modeling. His titles today reflect his many aptitudes: Principal, Director of Wind and Microclimate Technology, Project Director.

An inveterate tinkerer, Scott loves to push the envelope’s edge. “I have,” he says, “and always will be, driven by opportunities to take the world, or a piece of it, to the next level, to make it a different and better place to live and work.” Outside of work, he likes to mountain bike, ski, and appreciate fine machinery, including Formula One race cars and motorcycles. He recently ordered a new Ducati. The long-postponed tour of North America gets closer every year.