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Scott Tagge
Scott Tagge is what happens when a steadfast engineer is forced to take an improv class and then put into a war zone without nearly enough oversight. With over 15 years of experience in wrangling complex design-build projects and cybersecurity challenges, he’s adapted as a mission-critical system MacGyver. As Director of Cybersecurity & Special Projects at exp Federal Inc., Scott is heading a portfolio of federal government projects across the US and internationally.
He’s helped drill oil wells across Arabian Peninsula, optimized power grids in Afghanistan, automated cyber compliance solutions for A&Es, regrettably “built an app”, and crunches out design-build contracts, most recently, the world’s two most powerful in-water pulsed electric fish barriers. Along the way, Scott has built exp Federal’s OT Cybersecurity practice, pushing everyone to think a little harder about easy stuff like passwords and a lot harder about gritty organizational and mission risk management processes.
Fun fact: Scott’s obsession with cybersecurity started, age 9, when he found a tech magazine that promised him he could solder stuff together (from a store called Radio Shack) to trick phones into giving him free long-distance calls. That sentence that made much more sense 30 years ago; he now works for the ostensible good guys and reluctantly pays his phone bills.