Albert Thompson

Al Thompson was born in Cleveland, Ohio. Upon graduation from high school he joined the Marine Corps and served in Vietnam from June of 1965 to March of 1966.

Upon discharge he worked in the computer industry and complete a trade school course at Control Data Institute in Computer Science. He then worked as a manufacturing technician and customer service engineer on large mainframe computers. Living and working in the Santa Clara Valley for over twenty years. He was one of the pioneers that worked from 1973 until 1986 in the emerging computer industry as a technician and trainer

He completed an undergraduate BSCS degree at San Jose state in Technology Management, and MBA from The University of Phoenix, and Doctoral work at San Jose State in Mass Communications.

He has taught business and computer science at the University of Phoenix. Portland Community College, and Pioneer-Pacific University.

He has more than thirty years’ experience as a technical writer and course developer for a wide variety of computer companies, authoring more than eighty books on computer applications. He has also functioned as department head for Publications and Marketing departments.