Member of the Mathematics Development Advisory Board (MDAB), Scott H. Fisher has received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Service from the Grainger College of Engineering, recognizing Fisher "for his dedicated and sustained service to and support of the University of Illinois, and for his commitment to improving and honoring quality computer science teaching." Fisher has had a long history with the Department of Mathematics. He is beginning his second term on the MDAB and has generously supported Mathematics faculty and the Campaign for Altgeld and Illini Halls, including significant donations to the Altgeld Chimes: Songs for Our Dear Old Illinois project and the restoration of our mathematics model collection.
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Scott Fisher's productive career took him to leading technology companies and saw him move from research and development to application architecture and development; to the business application of computing and, eventually, to IT.
Fisher joined Digital Equipment Corporation, where he contributed to the VAX/VMS operating system, the PDP-11 minicomputer and the DECsystem line of systems.
His career has covered executive leadership, program management, engineering and large systems experience in manufacturing, high-tech and healthcare environments. He has been recognized for his high-quality people skills and the ability to understand and communicate the business of technology. Most recently, Fisher worked at Ecolab, a global leader in water, hygiene and energy technologies and services. He managed one of the company's IT groups, supporting its Institutional sales division from 2008 to 2016. His team developed software to collect data from industrial controllers and managed chemistry and regulatory data.