President Synchronicity Mastering Services

Tom co-founded Synchronicity Mastering Services in 1999, and in 2007 became the principle owner. Previous to Synchronicity Tom held a variety of positions with several respected organizations within the optical disc industry.
Starting in 1980, Tom began his career at DiscoVision Associates (DVA) as mastering technician. Tom joined LaserVideo in 1983 (eventually owned by Cinram) where he created and managed their quality assurance department. He developed the quality standards for their Anaheim and Huntsville plants and was responsible for training all new employees for the quality department. In 1990, Tom joined Optical Disc Corporation, a mastering equipment manufacturer, as their Senior Process Engineer. In this role, Tom was responsible for satisfying a long-standing need in the industry - to connect the mastering equipment and process with the replication processes to improve overall yield and improve process performance. Tom then began a successful consulting service for mastering and replication process and quality improvement. Tom then joined Doug Carson Associates (an industry leader in signal processing and encoding of CD and DVD information) in 1994 where he was responsible for consulting and training DCA staff and customers throughout the world. In 1996 Tom joined Trace Optical to direct their mastering division. In this capacity, Tom was responsible for worldwide sales and support of Trace's CD and DVD mastering and electroforming equipment.