Scott Pierce keeps himself pretty busy around Birmingham, AL. Nowadays when he’s not doing his day job serving as director of technology at Intermark, he’s spearheading two inspiring projects that are helping not just himself, but his adopted city and others see their true potential – WhyBHM? and #asdbhm.

He spoke about one of the projects as the last presenter at TEDxRedMountain on May 19 – and he spoke with us about both of them earlier this month over coffee at Urban Standard.