Winter Break Hours and Services
Shields Library is closed through January 4, 2026. Digitization and interlibrary loan requests will be fulfilled after the library reopens on January 5.
Scott Armanini
Associate Director of Strategic Initiatives
- DataLab: Data Science and Informatics
Scott Armanini is responsible for civic and corporate engagement, creating partnerships with government agencies, corporations, and venture firms. His experience includes business development, innovation commercialization and venture capital roles at Accenture Ventures, Cisco Systems, HP, Microsoft and Samsung NEXT Ventures. Scott received his MBA from USC’s Marshall School of Business, and BA in Economics and Political Science from UCLA. He teaches design thinking, entrepreneurship, product innovation, and serves as an advisor to game-changing startups including pregnancy monitoring pioneer Bloomlife and 1-click signup leader Verified.
Areas of Expertise
business development, corporate engagement, partnerships, sponsorships