After receiving a Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Miami School of Music, Scotty won the grand prize in the D'Addario International Rock Contest. After fulfilling a three record contract with Blues Bureau International. He did a one-year stint in Las Vegas as the musical director of the six million dollar hit stage production Madhattan. Scotty has since relocated to the Boston area where he continues to record, tour, and teach Guitar at Berklee College of Music. He has appeared in almost every major Guitar magazine in the US and Japan and has been seen on CNN, Access Hollywood, Entertainment Tonight, and Korean national TV.