Larry Thompson has been an ISA adjunct instructor since 1984 and has designed, developed, taught, and maintained industrial controls and networks in many varied applications. After earning his Bach...view moreLarry Thompson has been an ISA adjunct instructor since 1984 and has designed, developed, taught, and maintained industrial controls and networks in many varied applications. After earning his Bachelor of Applied Sciences from Tarleton State University, he began a career in data communications, including experience as a test engineer and test engineering supervisor for Reliance Telecom and as an instructor in instrumentation, computer networking/system administration, and e-commerce technology for Texas State Technical College.
Larry also served twenty years in the U.S. Air Force, primarily in electronic encryption systems. In 1979 he started Electronic Systems development and training company (ESdatCo), a technical services business, and is presently under contract as an IT technical manager for a financial institution with eight remote sites. Larry is a Certified Control Systems Technician and presently instructs in ISA’s Certified Automation Profession exam review course. He holds an FCC Radiotelephone License (General, formerly First Class).
Larry is the author of the following ISA books: Industrial Data Communications (4th edition) and Basic Electricity and Electronics for Control: Fundamentals and Applications (3rd edition).view less