Tom joined Nelson Byrd Woltz in 2010. He earned Master of Architecture (2009) and Master of Landscape Architecture (2009) degrees from the University of Virginia, where he has taught undergraduate and graduate design studios in architecture and landscape architecture. He also holds a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Visual Arts from Hampden-Sydney College, and has studied at St. Anne’s College at Oxford University, and at L’Ecole Marchutz in Aix-en-Provence, France.

His graduate design work was awarded the AIA Henry Adams Certificate for Excellence in Architecture and Awards for Excellence in Design in architecture and landscape architecture, and was recently featured in the 6th European Biennial of Landscape Architecture in Barcelona.

Prior to work at NBW, Tom worked at Christopher Counts Studio in Charlottesville, where he was assistant project designer and project manager for the master plan design of a 4-acre public park in Raleigh and a 40-acre residential development in Zhuhai, China. He has previously worked for several small architecture and landscape architecture firms in Virginia, in addition to freelance work in web design and parametric modeling.