Tom works at Cisco Systems where he is a Technical Leader. He leads a team that designs and develops MIBs and other operations and management tools for Cisco's routing and switching platforms. He also works on technologies at Cisco such as the common optical control plane (GMPLS), Diff-Serv, VPN, Traffic Engineering, Pseudo-wire Emulation, and SNMP in general. He is also one of a small group of engineers at Cisco call as The MIB Police that are responsible for overseeing and assisting in the design and approval of all internal Cisco MIBs. He is co-author of all but one of the MPLS, PWE3, MPLS VPN and GMPLS-related IETF MIBs, as well as other IETF MIBs, protocol and architecture documents. Tom has filed several patents while at Cisco. He received his BSCS from The University of New Hampshire, and an MSc from The University of Massachusetts in Lowell, where he has been an Adjunct Professor of Computer Science since 2000. He teaches courses in the topic of data communications. He is the technical editor of Enabling VPN Aware Network With MPLS (Prentice-Hall Publishers, 2001), and author of MPLS Network Management: MIBs, Tools and Techniques (Morgan-Kaufman, 2002).