Tom joined the Society of American Magicians in 1975 and attended his first magic convention in Boston the same year. He attended the SAM conventions in Chicago ‘76, and in Philadelphia ’77 and in 1976 I performed a full stage show at Rider University Theater for about 300 people (for this effort he borrowed Teller’s Selbit Sawing in half and worked with him on the presentation). Tom was the lead in a Periwig production of “The Spider” in Princeton New Jersey. He portrayed Chartrand the magician for the play and performed Robert Houdin’s second sight as well as a number of large stage illusions in a vaudeville like setting (not only did he need to learn and memorize all of the code for Houdin’s second sight but he had over five thousand lines in the play…) He is an active magician member of the Academy of Magical Arts, The Magic Castle, in Hollywood and a member of the international Brotherhood of Magicians as well.. Tom is also a black belt in Tang Soo Do (Korean karate) and a brown belt in Traditional Japanese karate, Shotokan. He is an expert at nunchakus, Sais and fairly accomplished with a Samurai Sword (a katana) in Iado. In his twenties Tom combined his martial arts with his magic and took on the name “The Magus: Master of Martial Magic” (Pronounced: Ma-gos). He has performed in large venues at Hughes Space and Communications, and Boeing Satellite Systems as well as children’s shows and local school performances for the past 20 years. He has invented a variety of martial magic tricks including dancing samurai swords, and a sightless vision (complete with play-do over his eyes etc, where he slices a watermelon in half on a audience member’s stomach with a samurai sword completely blindfolded). He also performs shows at local hospitals children’s cancer wards. Most recently he performed in a common room and at bedsides at the Jonathon Jacques Children’s Cancer Center at Torrance memorial hospital. He is an avid bibliophile of magic books, rare and not. He is also an astrophysicist, a director of Space and Intelligence Programs for Boeing, an ordained Pastor, a mystic, and a husband and a father.