Andy Johnson-Laird

Who is Andy Johnson-Laird?

Andy Johnson-Laird is the president of digital forensics firm Johnson-Laird Inc. He was born in Sheffield in England in February, 1945. Johnson-Laird was educated at Culford School and then attended the Regent Street Polytechnic, now known as The University of Westminster. Johnson-Laird also has lived in Ferney-Voltaire, Toronto, and San Jose,. He currently lives with his wife, Kay Kitagawa, in Portland, Oregon in the Pacific Northwest of the United States.

Johnson-Laird's computer career started in 1963 at National Cash Register Company's London offices where he worked as a computer operator and taught himself to program the NCR 315 mainframe computer during the night shift. He was then invited to teach as a lecturer in NCR's Computer Education department, teaching NCR customers how to program. Subsequently, he wrote system software for the NCR-Elliott 4100 mainframe computer. Johnson-Laird also worked as a systems programmer for Control Data Corporation in Ferney-Voltaire in support of supercomputer installations at CERN. and various universities in Europe. He transferred to Control Data Corporation's Toronto Development Facility in 1977.