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Alexis M. Scott
Alexis M. Scott-Boster is a Quadruple E: Educator, Entrepreneur, Engineer, and Elocutionist. As an Entrepreneur, she founded AMS Academic Solutions to share her gift of numbers and education that she has possessed since an early age. As an Engineer, Alexis took on the position of Systems Engineering Department Manager for the Integrated Mission Systems Market Segment for a rising company in Defense in October 2021 in which she manages a team of 90+ Cyber Security, Database, and Network Engineers. For 12 years prior, she worked for another major defense company as a Senior Principal Systems Engineer. For 3 years, she was the Section Manager in Dallas, Tx of their Systems Security Engineering Group. As an Educator, she has been teaching Mathematics for over 30 years including 18 years as a college professor. She has an undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Spelman College and a graduate degree in Mathematics from the University of North Texas. As Elocutionist, she has taken all those passions above and began speaking on her experiences as a Woman in STEM. She is a 2017 NSBE Hidden Figures Awards recipient for her contributions to STEM. For the week of July 5, 2017, she was Vanguard's STEM Woman Crush Wednesday in STEM (#WCWinSTEM). She published one book in 2017 called Embracing STEM Smarts: an encouraging guide for young ladies to be bold in their intelligence. She has since published several other books and has also been featured in several books as a STEM role model. She was honored by her Alma Mater, University of North Texas as a featured alumnus in their July 2017 newsletter. She was also featured by her undergraduate alma mater Spelman College as a woman in STEM to watch. She was honored by Zakat Court #133 as their Woman of the Year for her contributions in STEM. Finally, she created the blog post called Breaking the Curse of Invisibility for Herdacity.org which was also the subject of her TEDx talk (https://youtu.be/mPohBFk6SV0) in February 2018. In her spare time, she enjoys playing tennis, running, reading, and traveling. Contact Alexis Scott-Boster at www.amsacademicsolutions.com or www.alexismscott.com. Or email her at alexis@amsacademicsolutions.com.