Scott Arbuthnot is a Senior Simulation Specialist for the Advanced Cognitive Engineering (ACE) laboratory at the Carleton University Centre for Visualization and Simulation (VSIM). Mr. Arbuthnot is a retired Canadian Air Force Major. As a military pilot, he served as a tactical flight officer in the scout-reconnaissance role, as a qualified flight instructor, standards officer, and instrument check pilot, and served on international operational deployments. Scott also has broad experience in research and development and modeling and simulation having worked for Director General Intelligence, Operational Research Division and the Canadian Forces Aerospace Warfare Center as Section Head for the Synthetic Environments Coordination Office. In these positions, Scott played a pivotal role in a large number of modeling and simulation efforts for the Canadian Forces, including Canadian Head of Delegation for the NATO SMART steering group, Canadian Head of Delegation to the NATO Special Air Charts Working Group, and the Chairman of NATO SAS-34 Visual Database Sub-working Group of the Technical Working Group. He holds a Bachelor of Mathematics degree from McMaster University and has substantial experience working with distributed simulation environments and developing software solutions ranging from database management to current cutting-edge 3D graphics, GPU compute shader-based physics models and high-end simulation image generators.
In 2008, Scott retired from the Air Force after 20 years of service and joined Acron as Vice President of Solutions and Product Development. In this role Scott has managed development projects that cover serious games, distributed simulation environments, systems integration, product development and research and development efforts before joining the ACE Lab team in 2012.