He has served in the Indiana Department of Education as director of curriculum development, and is a recipient of the IUPUI Chancellor’s Award, the Purdue Chancellor’s Award, and the Purdue School of Science Faculty Teaching Award. Tom is now president of VideoText Interactive, a company that specializes in bringing the textbook to life through technology. The company’s two major programs—Algebra: A Complete Course and Geometry: A Complete Course—have been acclaimed nationwide as comprehensive college-preparatory mathematics courses. Tom and his wife, Alice, have been married for 40 years, and have two children and six grandchildren.