Founded more than 91 years ago in Seattle, John L. Scott Real Estate’s core value is Living Life as a Contribution®. The firm helps homebuyers find and buy the home of their dreams, while also helping sellers move into the next chapter of their home ownership journey. John L. Scott currently operates over 100 offices with more than 3,000 agents throughout Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California.
When company operating officer Phil McBride joined the company in 2007, one of his initial challenges was to shift the company’s public website from an on-premises environment to a cloud-hosted one. According to McBride, a world of resources opened up to John L. Scott once the company started working with AWS to build an easily controlled, cloud-enabled environment.
Today, McBride is taking on the challenge of uncovering and modifying decades-old discriminatory restrictions in home titles and deeds. What he didn’t expect was enlisting the

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