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Interview with Scott Molinari - Creator of Skooppa!
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Interview with Scott Molinari - Creator of Skooppa!
Scott Molinari has been been a part of the forum admin and forum software world for a long time and his name is quite familiar to most everyone here. He's probably best known for his work with vB Germany but in the future it may well be that he will be best known as the creator of Skooppa .
Of course, Scott is also a great asset to the TAZ community (and has resisted my attempts to get him to join the Admin Zone staff many times over the years). I was able to convince him to participate what turned out to be a comprehensive peek into the world of Scott Molinari.
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Please tell us a bit about yourself.
I am, what I feel should be the halfway point in my life at 49. I live in Germany, but am an still an American, even though I’ve lived over half my life now in Germany. I am married to a lovely German woman, my wife Carmen and have a son Alex, who is now 23.
I moved to Germany with the US Air Force in 1985. After the cold war ended, around 1990 to 1991, the Air Force closed up a majority of the bases in Europe and I was reassigned to Bergstrom Air Force Base in Austin, Texas. At the time I moved to Texas, Carmen was pregnant with Alex and decided to stay in Germany to give birth to him, because she trusted the German medical system better than the Air Force medical system (and so did I). I took vacation and flew back to Germany to be with her during the birth. What a great experience a birth of your own child is!
Because of the pullout in Europe, there was a glut in manpower in the States, so the Air Force offered everyone a special deal to get out of their contract, provided the person would have a job and so I got a contract with Manessmann Demag Baumaschine. They built some of the world’s best mobile cranes and we still do actually. I still work for the same company, which is now owned by Terex. I am currently the Service Development Manager for a worldwide network of service stations for our products. I am responsible to help constantly improve the processes and tools we have and use to support our customers. One of the tools being a new and successful Customer Relationship Management system.
In my spare time, I had worked for vBulletin and am now working on my new project, Skooppa.
Do you miss living in the USA?
To be honest, no, I don't miss living in the States at all. I've made my home here in Germany. I am not sure how life is in the States now...
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