Scantling is a 1991 graduate of the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor in Philosophy and a concentration in International Peace Studies at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies. He earned a Master"s Certificate in Government Contracting from the George Washington University in 1995. He attended the United States Air Force Academy from 1984 to 1987 prior to transferring to the University of Notre Dame.
As a senior executive at International Business Machines Corporation, Hewlett-Packard and the United States Department of Defenseeconomic development and Information & Communications Technology (Information and communications technology ) initiatives across Iraq in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom during 2006-2007. He is currently the President & Chief Executive Officer of Scantling Technology Ventures, Limited Liability Company, a private equity firm based in Akron, Ohio. Scantling joined the United States Department of Defense on December 12, 2005, and he was one of the founding executives of the Business Transformation Agency (BTA).
While at the BTA, he led enterprise architecture and software federation strategy initiatives based on the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF).
From June 2006 to September 2007 he served on the Department of Defense Task Force for Business and Stability Operations at the United States Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq. Scantling also served as Assistant Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (ADUSD) for Expeditionary Business Systems within the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics from October 2007 to February 2008.
Scantling is a life member of the Air Force Association, Association of the United States Army and the United States Naval Institute.
