Bill Scott's BIO

TITLE & COMPANY INFO

Bill W. Scott
Vice President, Next Gen Commerce, PayPal
PayPal

ABOUT ME

http://linkedin.com/in/billwscott http://about.me/billwscott

CONTACT ME

You can find me @billwscott on most social networks as well as on gmail.

SUPER SHORT BIO

VP, Next Gen Commerce, PayPal. Previous roles at PayPal include head of Merchant Engineering, Payment Products and User Interface Engineering. Former Netflix head of user interface engineering. UX Thought Leader, Designer, Engineer, Author, Speaker. Yahoo! Design Pattern Curator. Early Mac game developer (1985), Lean Startup/Lean UX/Lean Engineering advocate.

SHORT BIO

Bill Scott is VP, Next Gen Commerce at PayPal. Previously he led Merchant Engineering, Payment Products and User Interface Engineering at PayPal. In a past life he co-created one of the first successful Macintosh games (GATO, 1985), built & designed wargaming interfaces for NATO, led user experience teams (Sabre, Meebo), co-wrote one of the first Ajax/JavaScript frameworks (OpenRico), managed user interface engineering organizations (Netflix, PayPal) and published a design pattern library (Yahoo!). Bill is also a frequent speaker at conferences & workshops worldwide as well as the co-author of the O'Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces. Follow Bill's tweets @billwscott and his ramblings on looksgoodworkswell.com.

MEDIUM BIO

Bill has always been passionate about software engineering (30 years). And just as passionate to understand how humans interact with software. For a long time he couldn't decide if he was an engineer or a designer. He finally gave up trying to classify himself and just decided to live in both worlds as much as possible.

Bill is currently VP, Next Gen Commerce at PayPal. Previously he led Merchant Engineering, Payment Products and User Interface Engineering there. At Netflix and Meebo he led User Interface Engineering and at Meebo he also led the UX Design team. He is co-author of the O'Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces and a regular conference/workshop speaker on topics on all aspects of design & engineering. Previously he has consulted for startups and fortune 500 companies, co-wrote one of the first JavaScript Ajax libraries, launched the public design pattern library at Yahoo and wrote one of the first games for the Macintosh in 1985.

LONG BIO

Bill leads PayPal's Next Gen Commerce Team, small, nimble, cross-functional team that is focused on enabling next-gen, social and context-aware commerce.

Prior to this Bill led the worldwide merchant engineering organization as well as the Payment Products teams. Before that he formed & led the PayPal UI Engineering teams.

Bill is co-author of the O'Reilly book Designing Web Interfaces. In addition, he is a frequent speaker at conferences & workshops discussing the nuances of good design and the challenges of great engineering.

Prior to PayPal, he led & established the UI Eng practice at Netflix. He & his team built the Netflix experience for the web, the first HTML5 TV experiences. Later Bill focused on the eCommerce stack where he & his team built the non-member & account services products across 43 countries on multiple devices (e.g., PS3, Wii, etc.).

Bill led both experience & engineering at Meebo and spent time consulting for startups and large enterprises doing everything from conducting usability studies, to wireframing, to writing lots of JavaScript code to presenting business strategy ideas to CEOs.

At Yahoo!, Bill led Y! Teachers, a web 2.0 community allowing teachers to gather, organize & share web resources. In addition, as Y! Ajax Evangelist he spread the gospel of "rich and sane" Ajax design & development. He also participated in aspects of the YUI library and as Design Pattern curator launched the public Yahoo! Design Pattern Library.

He also co-wrote one of first JavaScript Ajax libraries (Rico).

For 30 years Bill has focused on roles in both UX design as well as UI engineering: creating products in areas as diverse as video games, widget libraries, war gaming, IDE tools, airline management and Web consumer sites & apps.

His thoughts can be found at http://looksgoodworkswell.com. Follow him on twitter @billwscott

PRESENTATIONS

http://slideshare.net/billwscott