S. Scott Tielemans, Director of Business Development

Scott works as a Subject Matter Expert to help ABSI build and institutionalize business intelligence, business development & proposal, and strategy development processes.

Scott is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley and a former USMC F/A-18D Hornet Weapons Systems Officer (WSO).  His operational career included tours of duty in California, Virginia, South Carolina, Alabama and Florida.  He achieved every instructor qualification for the F/A-18D and he flew combat missions in Southeast Asia Iraq and the Arabian Gulf.  He completed multiple deployments to Japan, Southeast Asia and Australia, completed multiple staff tours in Iraq and Southwest Asia, and served in joint billets at US Central Command. He is an honors graduate of the USMC Amphibious Warfare School and a graduate of the USAF Command and Staff College and the USAF School of Advanced Air and Space Studies (SAASS).  After retiring from the Marine Corps, Scott earned a graduate certificate from Stanford University and an MBA from the University of Florida. He has defense industry experience as a South Asia regional policy subject matter expert and a senior operations and cybersecurity consultant, and he information technology industry experience as an IT services portfolio manager and business strategist.