Jim Scott

Jim helped build the Hadoop community in Chicago as cofounder of the Chicago Hadoop Users Group. He has implemented Hadoop at three different companies, supporting a variety of enterprise use cases from mapping applications, to OLTP in advertising, as well as full data center monitoring and general data processing. Jim has served as Lead Engineer / Architect positions at several companies including Conversant (formerly Dotomi), Gogo (formerly Aircell), HERE (formerly NAVTEQ), and Dow Chemical. Jim speaks at many industry events around the world on big data technologies and enterprise architecture.