Alex launched PhD-Businessplan.com and began writing business plans full-time in 2006 after working in sales and management for seven years. To date, Alex has written 600+ business plans. He has worked with companies such as Wal*Mart, Ramada Plaza Resorts, and Fairfield Resorts, as well as several small businesses. Before that he was a college professor for eleven years. Alex received his Ph.D. in social psychology from Indiana University. He was a pre-doctoral and post-doctoral fellow in National Institute of Mental Health research training programs. Alex has published five books about autism and perception, including “Autism and the Crisis of Meaning” and “How to Understand Autism - The Easy Way”, as well as numerous articles in academic journals including a coauthorship in The Encyclopedia of Sociology.