CAPT Thompson is a Massachusetts native and 1998 graduate of the U. S. Coast Guard Academy. Upon graduation, his first tour of duty was in Cape May, New Jersey aboard the USCG Cutter HORNBEAM, where he served as a Deck Watch Officer and the Communication Officer. Thompson was then assigned Operations Officer in USCGC GENTIAN in Miami Beach, Florida. 

In 2001, he was assigned as the Operation Officer of Electronic Systems Support Unit Boston where he was responsible to maintain all surface and shore electronic and computer systems for the Coast Guard from New York to Maine. During this tour he performed extensive temporary duty including an assignment as the Communications Officer for the Joint Incident Command Post in New York following the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001.

From July 2007 to March 2010, he served at Coast Guard C4ISR Acquisition Directorate's Deepwater Program as the Information Assurance Director. Deepwater was a 25-year, $24 billion effort that is modernizing many of the Coast Guard's technologically obsolete assets and systems, including: 91 cutters; 195 aircraft; and C4ISR equipment. During this tour, Thompson oversaw the Certification & Accreditation, TEMPEST and Physical Security effort during the design, development, and installation of Coast Guard's most-complex C4ISR Systems on the new National Security Cutters. This effort included the Coast Guard's first ever afloat SCIF (Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility). From March 2010 to April 2011, he served as the C4ISR Project Officer for the Coast Guard new Offshore Patrol Cutter Program forming novel acquisition strategies and C4ISR specifications for the new cutter fleet. 

From April 2011 to May 2015, he served as the Operations Officer of Coast Guard Cyber Command, responsible for protecting enterprise information systems for 60,000 users and providing a secure communication and sensor platform for Coast Guard Maritime Operations. During this period, he also a qualified at the 1st Coast Guard officer to serve as a Battle Watch Captain at US Cyber Command, where he monitored the Security Operations for sixty four combatant command, service, and agency network centers engaged in full-spectrum cyber operations.

From May 2015 to Jun 2019, he was assigned to the command staff of C4IT Service Center in Alexandria Virginia. During this period, he was selected to lead the several high-profile teams. The first in 2015 was Cyber CAT (Crisis Action Team) Delta, a focused DOD driven effort to secure the IT infrastructure of whole of government against foreign adversaries. Next in 2016, he led a team to launch Cyber/CIO/C4IT Task Force to ensure unity of effort and alignment with the Coast Guard and Department of Defense Cyber Strategies. From May 2017 to May 2019, he led a $100M effort to upgrade all desktop compute and network infrastructure capabilities across the Coast Guard 60K user base and transition the architecture to support the environment Microsoft Windows 10. 

From July 2019 to May 2022, he was assigned to the new C5I Service Center in Alexandria Virginia leading the Coast Guard’s transition to Microsoft DoD365 productivity suite and modernization of telephony, video conferencing and mobility.  From May 2022 to present, he has been assigned to lead the Coast Guard’s Infrastructure Division leading all Information Technology, hardware, networks and cloud technologies across the U.S. Coast Guard.  From 2020-2023 he served as the president of ISC2 International Advisory Board and president of the ISC2 Northern Virginia Chapter which was recognized the top chapter in North America in 2020. 

Thompson graduated with high honors from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering. He received a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering in 2005 from the University of Massachusetts, and a Master of Science in Engineering Management in 2007 from Northeastern University. He is certified as CISSP, ISSMP and CCSP by ISC2 (International Information System Security Certification Consortium).

Thompson's Awards include the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) 2012 Copernicus Award and 2010 IT Leadership Awards, the 9-11 Medal, four CG Meritorious Service Medals, three CG Commendation Medals, one Joint and two CG Achievement Medals and eleven Meritorious Team Commendations.