About Scott
Scott Rose, Chief Geek Officer of ScottWorld, is a technology guru and a member of Mensa International, the high IQ society. He has been developing database systems for businesses for almost 40 years.
Scott is an expert Airtable Consultant who has been officially vetted & approved by Airtable as one of their top consultants worldwide.
He is also a Certified Make Partner, a Certified FileMaker Developer, and a celebrated public speaker who spoke for Apple for 6 years.
A Genuine Airtable Expert
Since 2018, Scott has provided top-notch Airtable consulting to hundreds of businesses worldwide, and you can hire Scott to provide expert Airtable consulting & development for your own company as well.
As one of the world’s top Airtable experts, Scott was personally handpicked by LinkedIn Learning to author their Learning Airtable training course, and it has become one of the most successful courses ever published by LinkedIn.
Scott has been officially vetted & approved by Airtable as one of their top consultants worldwide.
From 2019 to 2022, Scott was the volunteer leader of Airtable’s Official Community Forums. Scott posted over 6,000 solutions in response to customer’s technical questions about Airtable, more than any other contributor to the community.
In 2023, Scott founded TableForums: The Airtable Discussion Community. TableForums is a place where you can learn from Airtable experts, connect with other Airtable enthusiasts, and receive top-notch support to make the most of Airtable.
Additionally, Scott has made more guest appearances on the BuiltOnAir Airtable podcast than any other guest. You can watch all of Scott’s Airtable podcast appearances on his YouTube channel, and you can tune in live to the BuiltOnAir podcast every Tuesday morning at 8am PT / 11am ET.
Motivational & Inspirational Speaking
As a public speaker, Scott started professionally speaking for Apple in 1999, and traveled around the country for 6 years with Steve Jobs and the Apple Executive Team as one of their top professional speakers nationwide.
Scott spoke at all of Apple's major events & retail store openings, where he introduced several of Apple's new products to the public for the very first time. During this time, Scott continued to run ScottWorld as well.
Scott’s speaking engagements now primarily focus on motivational & inspirational topics. In 2019, he created the website The Inspirational Nerd to focus on his “non-technology” passions such as public speaking.
It All Started in the 1980’s: An Early Love for Technology
Scott started programming databases for businesses at the age of 12 years old in 1984, when he created a database system for the local video store in his neighborhood. At the time, Scott used the 1984 version of AppleWorks running on an Apple IIe computer.
One year later, at the age of 13 years old in 1985, Scott was selected to become the youngest writer ever for Enter Magazine, a popular 1980's computer magazine. In the same year, Scott was also selected as one of the youngest game testers ever for the legendary gaming company Infocom.
In 1989, Scott attended UCLA (B.A. Psychology 1993), which is where ScottWorld was born. Scott used his psychology classes to study how people interacted with computers, and he realized that people were in desperate need of an easier way to manage all of their data. Scott dabbled with several different programming languages, but none of them truly captured his attention until the user-friendly FileMaker Pro came on the market.
Scott loved FileMaker Pro's simple interface & rapid development environment so much that he started programming databases for everyone that he knew, even friends & family members who didn't really want a database!
In 1992, Scott spent days walking door-to-door through the streets of Los Angeles, trying to find businesses who would want to use his computer programming services. This was an extremely hard sell at the time, considering that most businesses didn't even own computers back then, and this was about 8-10 years before the Internet became mainstream. But Scott's strategy paid off because businesses were intrigued with Scott's computer skills, and this became the start of ScottWorld.
Soon, Scott couldn't keep up with demand for his services, and his business has never stopped growing. Scott has now created hundreds of amazing FileMaker Pro databases for businesses worldwide. Scott is officially certified in every version of FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, and FileMaker Go.
In 2018, Scott discovered Airtable, a database platform that he loves as much as FileMaker Pro, and he added Airtable training and Airtable consulting into ScottWorld’s portfolio of services. He is also the author of LinkedIn’s Learning Airtable course, one of the most successful courses ever released by LinkedIn. Scott is now a recognized expert in the Airtable industry.
Fun Facts About Scott
Scott traveled around the country for 6 years with Steve Jobs and the Apple Executive Team as one of Apple’s top public speakers nationwide.
Scott might be most famous for playing the Apple Fanatic in his hit comedy video series, Shit Apple Fanatics Say (Part 1 and Part 2), which went viral with almost 4 million views and has been talked about extensively in the technology news. Scott was featured in The Huffington Post, Fortune Magazine, The Washington Post, Mashable (twice!), Gizmodo, Ken Segall's Observatory, 9 to 5 Mac, and many more sites across the web.
Scott’s mom, Esther Glickstein Rose, named the Big Mac for McDonald's in 1967. A few links about this: How the McDonald’s Big Mac Got Its Name, Woman Who Named Big Mac Finally Recognized, and The Food That Built America: The Kings of Burgers.
Scott appeared on 7 different game shows when he lived in Los Angeles, and he won almost $50,000 in cash & prizes. (Due to inflation, this would be the equivalent of nearly $100,000 in 2022.) Some of Scott’s game show videos are available to watch online.
Scott loves traveling & experiencing new cities, and considers himself a world traveler. He has visited 25 countries and 47 U.S. states. During the summer of 2019, he backpacked through 14 European countries for 4 months. Scott currently lives in Jacksonville (Florida), and he has previously lived in Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Austin, and Vancouver (Canada).
Scott acted in the first 15 minutes of the action film “High Voltage” in 1998, which starred Antonio Sabato Jr., Amy Smart, and William Zabka. (Links: High Voltage on IMDB, High Voltage streaming on Amazon.)
The paparazzi chased Scott around Los Angeles for many months in 2003, because he looked very similar to Clay Aiken of American Idol fame.
Scott is a member of MENSA International, the high IQ society.
Scott graduated from UCLA with a B.A. in Psychology.
One of Scott’s all-time favorite college jobs was being a tour guide for the World-Famous Studio Tram Tour at Universal Studios Hollywood.
Scott was a contributing editor of Mac|Life Magazine for 3 years, back when it was a real magazine that actually showed up physically on people’s doorsteps and people could hold it in their hands! ;) Scott wrote cover stories, feature articles, and even had his own monthly column where he answered technical questions from readers around the country. Yes, Scott was essentially the "Dear Abby" of computer geeks!
For 3 years, Scott performed narrative comedy improvisation onstage. When he lived in Austin Texas, he performed in fully-improvised, full-length, narrative plays at the award-winning Hideout Theatre. Scott’s most recent improvised play, Small Town Girl, was performed to fully sold-out audiences in February & March of 2019. You can watch one of Scott’s Small Town Girl performances here.
Scott worked closely with Richard Kline (of “Three’s Company” fame), who directed Scott’s one-man comedy stage show “Computer Geek: One Nerd’s Search For His Soulmate” that toured around the country in 2006, and Scott also presented his show to Comedy Central executives for possible consideration in a future comedy TV series.
Scott’s other website, The Inspirational Nerd, focuses on his motivational & inspirational speaking career.
Photos of Scott Rose in 2018
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Scott Rose, Chief Geek Officer of ScottWorld, has been developing database systems for businesses for almost 40 years. He is an expert Airtable consultant, a Certified FileMaker Developer, and a celebrated public speaker. In the early 2000’s, Scott traveled around the country for 6 years with Steve Jobs & the Apple Executive Team as one of their top professional speakers. Scott spoke at all of Apple's major events & retail store openings, where he introduced many of Apple's new products to the public for the very first time. But Scott is probably most famous for playing the Apple Fanatic in his hit comedy video series, Shit Apple Fanatics Say (Part 1 and Part 2), which went viral with over 4 million views. Scott is a member of Mensa International (the high IQ society), and he gives motivational & inspirational talks around the globe. In his free time, he loves traveling & performing improv comedy onstage.
“Working with Scott Rose of ScottWorld has absolutely changed our business for the better. Not only are their rates fair for the level of expertise we receive, but every project they have done for us has been done in record time and reduced the project estimate so much that we always feel like we are getting a fantastic deal. Their work is unparalleled in its excellence. ScottWorld’s professionalism, expertise, and artistic eye for creating our company’s software has proven to be a service that our company and clients benefit from on a daily basis. We are now more organized, efficient, and able to offer more doing less work, all because of the custom database system that ScottWorld has created for us in FileMaker Pro. I cannot recommend ScottWorld highly enough!”
ScottWorld Client Since 2011