About Quentin Thomas Wells

Quentin Wells was born in Salt Lake City in 1941. He is a 1965 graduate of the University of Utah with a magna cum laude degree in international politics and history. Quentin began his professional career as a clandestine Intelligence Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency in Washington, D.C. He worked as a case officer in Soviet Bloc Operations Division and as an intelligence analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. Quentin wrote analytical reports for the President and other government officials. Upon leaving the CIA, he became the Director of Abacus Ltd., a full-service advertising agency in Salt Lake City.

He later became a motion picture writer and producer, first as Production Manager for Stockdale Corporation, then as president of his firm, Executive Services, Inc., which specialized in technical writing and the production of documentary and educational films.

Wells founded and operated several small businesses during the 1970s and 1980s, among which were a leasing company, Executive Services, Inc.; a vending company and a video and software distribution company, Publisher's Software Network. In 1981 Wells joined Career Research Corporation, a manufacturer of technology education systems, as Development Director. He later became General Manager of the firm.

In 1989 he left Career Research to serve for three years as President of the Sandy Area Chamber of Commerce.

In 1991 Wells joined the staff of Salt Lake Community College and became Director of the Program Innovation Department. He later moved to the Communications Department as Director of the College's Student Media Center, where he taught courses in video and audio production and supervised the student media outlets.

After his retirement from full-time work at the college in 2008, Wells has continued to do research at the school and serve as a volunteer curator of the B. Robert McIntyre Antique Electronics Collection housed there.

Quintin Wells is currently a part-time private investigator who specializes in locating missing persons and records. He is also writing new nonfiction and fiction books for publication.

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