Truong has served as the coach and chief strategist of the Webster University chess team and director of marketing for the SPICE Program since then.

[7] In 2004, Truong was the captain and business manager of the U.S. women's team for the 36th Chess Olympiad,[6] which won a silver medal.

The Webster University chess team also won (or tied for first) in the Pan American Intercollegiate Championships every year from 2012 to 2018.

[citation needed] In 2001, he won the U.S. Open Blitz Championship in Framingham, Massachusetts, ahead of Hikaru Nakamura.

[citation needed] Truong's father, Tien, was a South Vietnamese official working at the U.S. embassy in Saigon during the Vietnam War.

From an early age, he won the CSS's annual tournaments, which were informally recognized as the National Championships of South Vietnam.

[citation needed] He posts his digital files in the public domain, usually on the day they are taken, for use free of charge by news outlets and blogs.