Tom is active with the IEEE and IEEE USA, serving as the Chair of the IEEE USA Energy Policy Committee. He is also a past member of the PES ITSLC (Industry Technical Support Leadership Committee) and served on the organizing committee of the ISGT (Innovative Smart Grid Technology) Conference. Tom currently serves as the Vice President of Engineering at Austin Energy, a utility serving the Austin, Texas area. This group has responsibilities for system planning, system engineering, system and control center operations, emergency management, real estate, and asset management. Prior to this, Tom was an executive Director at Exelon. Exelon is a FORTUNE 100 company that serves more nearly 11 million electric and gas customers and employs approximately 34,000 people nationwide with 2018 revenues of $36 billion.