Tom is a singer/songwriter who began writing songs in high school—over forty years ago. He moved to New York City where he quickly placed songs with Peer Southern and Famous Music Publishing.

In the early seventies, Tom began a career in advertising, writing and producing countless TV and Radio commercials. He penned and produced jingles performed by Michael Bolton, Marc Cohn, Ry Cooder, Fats Domino, Dave Edmunds, Allen Toussaint, Jimmy Buffett, .38 Special, Kenny Rogers, George Benson and others. He won numerous awards, including Clios for Best Musical Campaign for Miller Genuine Draft’s It’s As Real As It Gets and Xerox's Revolution campaign with The Art of Noise. He also garnered a Cannes Silver Lion for Hyundai's debut campaign, Cars That Make Sense.

During that time his work also appeared in several movies, including Beer, Night of the Creeps, Excessive Force, Caught in the Crossfire, Girlfriends, The Key, and the Martha Coolidge film Not a Pretty Picture. The Key, which he scored with Jonathan Helfand, won the 1996 National Education Fiction Video Award.

Tired of making music that was less than thirty seconds long, Tom left advertising (and the city) in the nineties and returned to his first love, songwriting. “You Got Something on the Side,” “100 Real Good Reasons to Sing the Blues” and “That’s My Version of a Good Idea,” which he co-wrote with Martha Trachtenberg and International Blues Challenge Award winner Toby Walker, appear on Toby’s internationally acclaimed CDs, Toby Walker Plays Well with Others and Just Rolled In, both of which Tom produced. His production credits also include It's About Time by Martha Trachtenberg, which was featured in The New York Times and Newsday, and is played on acoustic-music oriented radio stations throughout the country.

His first album, Hodge Podge, was released locally in 1997 and was chosen as an Album of the Year by the Long Island Press. In 2004, Tom released The Web of Life, a collection of educational songs for upper elementary students. The album came about, he says, “Because I couldn’t find any academically-oriented music that I thought would interest my 11-year-old son. There are plenty of ‘Wheels on the Bus’ type songs out there, which are great for little kids, but not much for his age group.” The CD has since become a favorite learning tool in classrooms across the country.

40 Years Later is Tom’s first national commercial release. He says, “I wanted to write about issues that were important to us baby boomers back in the sixties, but looked at from today’s perspective. In a funny way, it took me forty years to be able to write 40 Years Later. I feel like it was worth the wait.”

Tom is currently producing several indie artists and regularly performs with cutting-edge AAA project Return to the Dream.