Thom moved to Florida from Philadelphia, PA. In 1978 he joining Springhouse Corporation (in Springhouse, PA) and for 10 years worked as a photographer, paste-up artist and designer.

In 1989 he moved to Tampa and worked for the Tampa Tribune and The Flyer. In 1994 Thom started a 14 years career at The St. Petersburg Times (now the Tampa Bay Times). At the Times Thom worked in Ad Production as a Mac operator and eventually the Mac instructor for the Ad Production team. He worked his way into marketing and as the production manager handling the printing of special section tabs, brochures, and all the signage, newspaper rack boxes, posters, back light signs for the St. Pete Times Forum, Tropicana Field, International Plaza and BayWalk.

He joined the PLS Print staff in 2008 as an estimator. Thom moved to purchasing manager for several years and now is using his design background to help clients as an account manager for PLS Print.