About our authors
Mary Anne Poatsy, Series Editor, Windows 10 Author, is a senior faculty member at Montgomery County Community College, teaching various computer applications and concepts courses in face-to-face and online environments. She holds a BA in psychology and education from Mount Holyoke College and an MBA in finance from Northwestern University's Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
Mary Anne has over 20 years of educational experience. She has taught at Montgomery County Community College and Muhlenberg College. She also engages in corporate training. Before teaching, she was Vice President at Shearson Lehman in the Municipal Bond Investment Banking Department.
Lynn Hogan, Word Author, teaches at the University of North Alabama, providing instruction in the area of computer applications. Prior to her current assignment, she taught for over 25 years at the community college level, serving in academic administration and teaching applications, programming, and concepts courses in both online and classroom environments. She has served as an author for several Pearson publications over the past 14 years, including Exploring 2010, 2013, and 2016. She also contributed Word chapters for the first edition of Your Office, and developed and wrote Practical Computing. She received an MBA from the University of North Alabama and a PhD from the University of Alabama.
Dr. Linda K. Lau, Word Author, has, since 1994, been on the MIS (management information systems) faculty at the College of Business and Economics, Longwood University, located in Farmville, Virginia. She received the Outstanding Academic Advisor Award in 2006. Besides teaching and advising, Linda has authored and co-authored numerous journal and conference articles and textbooks, has edited two books, and has sat on several editorial boards. Her current research interest is in cyber security and forensics, and she is a member of the Journal of Digital Forensics, Security and Law (JDFSL).
Linda earned her PhD from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1993, and her MBA and a bachelor of science from Illinois State University in 1987 and 1986, respectively. In her younger days, Linda worked as a flight attendant for Singapore International Airlines for six years before coming to America to pursue her academic dream. She also worked as a financial consultant with Salomon Smith Barney from 1999 to 2000 before returning to the academic world. Linda resides in Richmond with her family.
