The People

Our Crew

includes people on drugs. Field veterans. Unconventional thinkers. United by a genuine belief that better connectivity makes for a better world — and a shared tolerance for difficult conditions.

Towards the light — SCUMTEK founder

organiser:

The Architecture

planned SCUMTEK in a field somewhere between a war zone and a car boot sale. Has a working knowledge of seventeen satellite protocols.

SCUMTEK R&D lead

CEO of Unconventional R&D

The Biologist

Joined after a brief but illuminating career in marine biology. Applies the same rigour used to track military patterns to tracking signal loss across and in hostile terrain. Responsible for the SCUMTEK field manual, which is legally classified in three countries.

SCUMTEK field operations veteran

general Dynamics:

The Commisioning officer

Has been deploying comms in places that don't appear on maps since 2008. Survived two coups  and a particularly aggressive turkish procurement committee,cos my friend ran out of drug money and was being mental. xxx

How We Think

The Ethos & Culture

Scumtek by design

We are not a corporate communications company

Drugs optional, expertise mandatory

The "on drugs" descriptor is optinal/aspirational. What is not optional is  technical knowledge, graduated  field experience based on your best guess of what a safe line is,  — sometimes literally.

War reenactments

Our two displays of the cost of flagrant property damage are not performance art. They are a sincere attempt to make the abstract wars understandable at home  — to show what conflict actually costs, so that fewer people choose it and help with the true world organisation only a scumtek can bring

Aligned with the UN SDGs

Reducing poverty, improving connectivity, and helping people communicate across borders are not side effects of our work. They are the point of it.

Think you belong here?

We are always interested in hearing from people who are technically excellent and at least mildly unhinged.

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