Voicemail Inventor

In 1986, Scott combined this technical knowledge with his propensity for innovation to become a noted voicemail inventor. At age 25, he co-founded his first company, Boston Technology, Inc., where he invented this voicemail system at 26 years of age. Amid deregulation and the divestiture of AT&T, Bell Atlantic and other "Baby Bells" approached potential voicemail inventors, asking them to provide a sophisticated system. Already having prepared patent applications for voicemail technology that could handle entire metropolitan areas, Scott started well ahead of the competition. He aggressively promised Bell Atlantic to deliver in three months what would have taken competitors years to deliver. Working night and day, Boston Technology delivered a voicemail system that was faster, more scalable, more reliable, more user-friendly and 20 times bigger than those of competitors such as AT&T, Siemens, Northern Telecom and others. But the man who invented voicemail had much more to offer. Since that beginning in his mid-20s, Scott's resulting patented inventions have been implemented by nearly every major telephone company in the world and have enabled those companies to offer highly profitable voicemail services to hundreds of millions of their customers.

More information on Scott’s voicemail patents can be found on the Patents page.