Scott Stansbury

Secretary | IT Director

Scott Stansbury is the owner of SSP Studio & Gallery, LLC, where he combines nearly five decades of experience in technology, electronics, photography, communications, and media production. Today, his work includes producing television commercials, music videos, documentaries, and large-event livestreams using mobile video production systems, as well as designing, building, and maintaining websites.

Stansbury also works as a technology contractor supporting the computers, servers, and network infrastructure used by Alaska television stations.

His involvement with computers began long before personal computers or the Internet became commonplace. In 1977, he began programming FORTRAN on an IBM System/32 mainframe and later learned COBOL, Assembly, machine language, BASIC, and Pascal. In 1981, he joined a computer club that met at NASA's Ford Aerospace Center, where many of the participants were NASA programmers and Space Shuttle astronauts.

In 1982, Stansbury built his own computer, programmed and operated a Bulletin Board System, or BBS. Years before widespread public Internet access, the system communicated through telephone connections and became part of a network extending throughout Texas and into four additional states. His BBS became the fifth most active system of its kind in Texas.

He studied electronics at Lee College beginning in 1985 and, by 1987, was operating a home-based television, stereo, and VCR repair business while building and modifying computers. He has continued working with evolving computer, electronics, networking, and programming technologies ever since.

Stansbury later founded and operated Device Pitstop, a full-service computer store and repair center on Arctic Drive in Anchorage. With a staff of seven employees, the business sold and serviced computers, tablets, and mobile phones for customers throughout Alaska.

His creative work has developed alongside his technical career. Stansbury began photography in 1976 and became an award-winning photographer. He later operated an Alaska tour company and became particularly known for northern lights photography and tours, which were the subject of feature articles.

His professional experience also extends well beyond technology and media. Beginning with Gulf Oil in 1979, Stansbury advanced through operational and supervisory positions before becoming a training and procedure coordinator. He served on an industrial emergency response team and ultimately accumulated more than 25 years of volunteer fire department service, including more than 5,000 documented ambulance runs.

That operational and emergency-response experience developed into specialized work in incident investigation and risk management. Stansbury served as a lead incident investigator and facilitated risk analyses involving the oil and gas, chemical, nuclear, military, and aerospace sectors, including work associated with NASA. He has also worked as an OSHA consultant.

Across a career spanning technology from mainframes and dial-up computer networks to modern broadcast infrastructure, digital media, networking, and livestream production, Stansbury has consistently worked at the intersection of technology, communications, safety, and problem solving.

His unusually broad background allows him to approach creative and technical projects not only from the standpoint of how something should look or function, but also how the systems behind it can be designed, maintained, and relied upon.