Scott's family moved to Louisville, Kentucky soon after he was born in Omaha NB in 1971. Scott attended public schools in Louisville where he excelled in numerous academic areas- particularly science and history. During that time he was a part of the academic team (High-Q), two state History Day champion teams, Odyssey of the Mind, and the winner of several science fairs. Scott graduated from Eastern High School in June 1989.

Scott entered Georgia Tech in the Fall of 1989 and pursued a major in Chemical Engineering. While at Georgia Tech, Scott became a leader in the student group Campus Crusade for Christ. During the summer of 1993, he spent 8 weeks working with students in Zagreb, Croatia who had been displaced by the civil war in Bosnia. Scott graduated in the top 10% of his class in June 1994.

Scott moved to Neenah, Wisconsin in 1994 to begin a career at Kimberly-Clark. At Kimberly-Clark, Scott focused his work on absorbency development for near term as well as long range projects. He later led the value-tier diaper development team which focused on developing new and improved diaper products for the new and growing markets of Southeast Asia. Scott met his wife Dena at Kimberly-Clark in Wisconsin. They were married in 1997.

In 1999, Scott transfered to the Roswell, GA research facility. While their his work focused on materials development for personal care products. During that time at Kimberly-Clark he focused his research on quantifying the effects of gasketting materials on leakage performance. His first Daughter, Elena Rose Friderich, was born in Atlanta in 2002.

Scott left Kimberly-Clark in 2002 to become the Director of Research for the ASCP in Budapest, Hungary. While there he coached and mentored research coordinators in Czech, Slovenia, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan. Additionally, he performed ethnographies in Romania and Kazakhstan and moderated focus groups in Kiev, Bucharest, and Budapest. During this time he also help found the European Missions Research Group (emRG). His second daughter, Elise Vienna Friderich, was born in Budapest in 2004.

Scott left Budapest in 2006 and returned to work at Kimberly-Clark in Roswell, GA when the ASCP discontinued it's work in Europe. During this time with Kimberly-Clark, Scott's work focused on leading new product development for Kimberly-Clark's medical supplies business. During this time, Scott refined his skills as a global moderator and designer of research to shape and influence business strategy. During this time, Scott and his wife adopted their son Escher from Ethiopia.