Lorraine Swift Abbott is the president of Tec-Com Inc. and is the editor and/or writer of its various publications. From 1948 until she founded Tec-Com in 1986, she was a technical writer and editor in the fields of radiation shielding and nuclear engineering at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA. She has a bachelor's degree in chemistry from Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, and has received recognition for communication excellence from the American Nuclear Society, the Society for Risk Analysis, and the East Tennessee chapter of the Society for Technical Communication.

Richard Neil Abbott has been vice president and secretary of Tec-Com Inc. since 1988. He is a senior editor and/or writer on most of the company's publications and researches and writes special reports for Tec-Com clients. He has a doctor of jurisprudence, a master's degree in business administration, a master of science degree in planning, and a bachelor's degree in architecture, all from the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He has received design and communication awards from the East Tennessee chapters of the Society for Technical Communication and Industrial Graphics International, and his academic honors included a first place national award from the American Institute of Certified Planners in recognition of his thesis on national energy planning. He is a licensed attorney in the state of Tennessee.

Mary Robertson Bryant has been with Tec-Com Inc. since 1989 and is the principal compiler and editor of several RiskWorld departments. She has a bachelor's degree in applied music from Maryville College in Maryville, Tennessee, and a master's degree in church music and organ from Northwestern University School of Music in Evanston, Illinois. Before returning to her native Tennessee and joining Tec-Com, she lived for a time in the Netherlands and Israel, working in the latter country as a television production assistant.

Katie Ingersoll has served as treasurer and office manager of Tec-Com Inc. since 1987. She is also the page layout designer of the company's various desktop publications and the compiler and editor of several RiskWorld departments. Before joining Tec-Com, she worked as an information processing leader at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She is a graduate of Knoxville Business College in Knoxville, Tennessee, and attended Roane State Community College in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She received a technical communication award from the East Tennessee chapter of the Society for Technical Communication in 1992.

A. C. Reed is a senior editor and/or writer of numerous Tec-Com publications, specializing in news articles and reports based on personal research and interviews. She has a bachelor's degree from the University of Tennessee's School of Communications, where she received the Chancellor's Citation for Academic Achievement. She has worked as a writer for Australian Geographic and Australian Good Housekeeping in Sydney, Australia; Popular Science in New York City; and Business North Carolina in Charlotte, North Carolina. She also served as business editor of the Daily News in Jacksonville, North Carolina, before returning to Tennessee and joining Tec-Com in 1992.

Consultant

Ward Engle, a retired nuclear engineer, is a computer systems and network consultant based in Lenoir City, Tennessee. He is responsible for the installation, upgrading, and maintenance of all of Tec-Com's computer networks and world wide web systems, the latter including Tec-Com's own RiskWorld.

Tec-Com is located in Knoxville, Tennessee, in the United States. For more information, contact us via telephone (865) 691-0176, fax (865) 691-0229, or e-mail abbott@tec-com.com

Last updated October 3, 2008