Tom Jaros

Tom’s love for software development began at the young age of 8 years old when his father brought home a Texas Instruments TI99/A. He already had an affinity for video games thanks to Atari, but growing up in a more rural portion of the Connecticut shoreline Tom had ample time to open the manual and learn the basics of programming. In fact, it wasn’t long before he learned how to create his own spaceship out of customized ASCII extended characters and make it fly around the screen …

While computers and programming remained a constant throughout his time growing up, it wasn’t until his years at the University of Vermont that something sparked different within him. There he began to realize his full potential after first being exposed to the Pascal programming language and x86 Assembly language in the same year. That following summer Tom set out to learn how to access video memory via INT 10H and create his own DOS windowing system with drop shadow. As creativity flowed and his interests expanded, he soon was delving into the basics of terminate-stay-resident or TSRs. It was amazing to him what you could find in the local bookstore … and what you could learn if you wanted to.

In the summer of 1992, Tom took on an internship role at a small company in Connecticut called Asset Management Technologies in Cheshire Connecticut. About 15 minutes into the interview with owner Dave Stewart, Tom was introduced to the Psion HC Range of handheld devices. These were 16-bit, multitasking computers with solid state technology and highly extensible modular hardware elements. So, not only could you write code for them in ‘C’, but you could also do everything from scan barcodes to print receipts to leverage various communication mediums simultaneously. Tom found himself immediately hooked, and his career in all things mobile was born.

Fast forward to now and Tom is still at it helping clients realize their dreams through mobile technology. Tom brings experience, problem solving, tenacity and creativity to each and every thing he works on. While Tom is not working, he can be found in Vermont spending time with his dog Finn, family and friends. In more recent years, he can be found playing competitive pool in a local amateur pool league.