The Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is a major new facility for world astronomy. When completed in 2013, ALMA will consist of an array of 50 12-m antennas, with baselines up to 16 km, and an additional compact array of twelve 7-m and four 12-m antennas which greatly enhances ALMA's ability to image extended targets. ALMA is outfitted with receivers that cover atmospheric windows in the frequency range 84-950 GHz (3mm - 300 micron). In this talk we present the capabilities available for the Early Science phase for which the proposal submission deadline is June 30th 2011. We also demonstrate the tools needed to plan and submit a proposal, illustrate the ALMA organization structure, and explain how the observer can obtain support at any stage from proposal preparation to data reduction.