Thomas N. Toomey was born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts in 1952. Graduated from Rockledge High School, Rockledge, FL in 1971, shortly after he joined the U.S. Army. He retired from the U. S. Army in 1991. During his military career he was school trained in seven military jobs. Turbine Engine Repairman, Radio Teletype Operator, Field Wireman, Artillery Surveyor Party Chief, Army Finance Auditor, Hover Craft Operator, and Instillation Bio-Chemical Testing Coordinator. In addition he was an instructor for military watercraft licensing and NCOIC Harbormaster Fort Story, VA. During his military career he ran several businesses, which he started up on his own. Photography by Thomas N. Toomey in Fairbanks, AK 1975, Toomey Jewelers in Ft Stewart, GA 1976, Archers Corner, Ft Stewart GA 1982, The Stone Connection VA Bch VA 1984. After he retired, along with being a gold smith and a certified diamond grader with his business The Stone Connection, he opened an antique shop in Newport News, VA. During 1994, he decided to move to Chapel Hill, NC and started T & J Handyman Service.  In 1996 he moved to Connecticut and went back to school using his G. I. Bill and received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Graphic Design Management and a Masters of Science Degree in Technology Education at Central Connecticut State University. He then went on to earn his Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts (in both Video and Photography) at the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in 2006. His work has been shown throughout New England and New York including the Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Many of his projections are very large. The video art pieces he projected on to the Edison building at Kenmore Square in Boston, MA were 63 feet wide. In 1999 he opened Roaring Brook Productions, LLC and became a certified videographer through the Professional Videographers of Connecticut and a certified Steadicam Operator through the Steadicam Operators Association.