My name is Tom but Tom is just one of the few names I’ve answered to over the years. Here are a few of the others:

Pinkie: When I was 5 I slipped while climbing a fence and wound up dangling by my pinkie between two fence posts. A Band-Aid and a new nickname later, I was back up there climbing.

Jelly: On the first day of 6th grade my teacher told us that middle school was a chance for us to be anybody we wanted to be. I took this literally and proceeded to go by Jelly for the entire year.

Jean-Luc: In college I created a character named Jean-Luc, a pretentious turtleneck-wearing French-Canadian travel vlogger. He became so popular at the school that a documentary was made about him.

If you’d like to learn about some of my other nicknames, or just want to learn more about Tom, please reach out to me on Linkedin.

Linkedin: Tom Preston

Agency Experience:

Dentsu Creative: Copywriter – January 2024 - present

Freelance: Creative – October 2019 - present

Horizon Media Content Studio: Creative – May 2022 - March 2023

GSD&M: Copywriter (contract) – May 2021 - January 2022

Other Experience:

Thousand Dollar Listing (reality tv show): Writer/Editor

Altice USA (media company): Programming Coordinator & Ad Trafficker

Pool Doctor (pool store): Chauffeur, Stock Boy, Pool Boy, Mop Boy

Advertising Education:

VCU Brandcenter: Copywriting

Hofstra University: Marketing

Other Education:

People’s Improv Theater (New York): Improv I & II

People’s Improv Theater (New York): Acting

Fallout Theater (Austin): Improv I

Fallout Theater (Austin): Sketch I