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Scott Empson is the associate chair of the Bachelor of Applied Information Systems
Technology degree program at the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology in Edmonton,
Alberta, Canada, where he teaches Cisco routing, switching, and network design courses in
a variety of different programs (certificate, diploma, and applied degree) at the postsecondary
level. Scott is also the program coordinator of the Cisco Networking Academy
Program at NAIT, a Regional Academy covering Central and Northern Alberta. He has
earned three undergraduate degrees: a Bachelor of Arts, with a major in English; a Bachelor
of Education, again with a major in English/Language Arts; and a Bachelor of Applied
Information Systems Technology, with a major in Network Management. He currently
holds several industry certifications, including CCNP, CCDA, CCAI, and Network+.
Before instructing at NAIT, he was a junior/senior high school English/Language Arts/
Computer Science teacher at different schools throughout Northern Alberta. Scott lives in
Edmonton, Alberta, with his wife, Trina, and two children, Zachariah and Shaelyn, where
he enjoys reading, performing music on the weekend with his classic/80s rock band “Miss
Understood,” and studying the martial art of Taekwon-Do.