# Tom Hamilton

> Electrical engineer in Austin, TX. Founder and President of Nuvospec (UL 508A certified panel shop building contractor-friendly lighting-control, automation and networking products for commercial buildings).

## Summary
- Location: Austin, Texas, USA
- Role: Founder & President, Nuvospec (https://nuvospec.com), Jun 2025 – Present
- Nuvospec: UL 508A certified panel shop in Austin designing lighting-control, automation and networking products for commercial buildings. Tagline: "Control Made Simple"
- About (from LinkedIn, lightly trimmed): Contractors are asked to install increasingly complex lighting controls, automation, and network gear without technical support. After years on commercial jobsites, Tom founded Nuvospec to build pre-wired, pre-tested, contractor-friendly gear — lighting contactor panels, PoE switch enclosures, and BACnet & DMX integration panels — for electrical contractors, distributors, engineers, and lighting rep agencies across the U.S.

## Background
- President, Nuvospec — Jun 2025 – Present · Austin, TX
- Product Manager, Fluence — Sep 2023 – Jun 2025 · Austin, TX
- Outside Sales, Legacy Lighting Inc. — Jun 2019 – Sep 2023 · Austin, TX
- Ketra (acquired by Lutron, 2018) · Austin, TX:
  - VP Product Management — Aug 2018 – May 2019
  - VP Solutions & Services — Jun 2016 – Aug 2018
  - Vice President of Marketing — Nov 2011 – Jun 2016
- Global Platform Manager, Philips Lighting — Oct 2010 – Nov 2011 · Burlington, MA
- Global Product Manager, Color Kinetics — May 2007 – Nov 2010
- MBA, Business Management — Questrom School of Business, Boston University — 2005 – 2007
- MS, Information Systems — Boston University — 2005 – 2007
- BS, Electrical Engineering — University of Colorado Boulder — 1994 – 1999

## Builds and interests
- Lighting-control and automation panels for commercial buildings
- ESP32-based DMX controller with Ethernet; exploring exposing it to AI agents via MCP (Model Context Protocol)
- Uses AI agents and coding tools daily (Claude, Codex, Warp)

## Open to
- Lighting-controls projects
- Rep and distributor partnerships
- Talks and podcasts

## Contact
- Email: sales@nuvospec.com
- Phone: (512) 615-9002 (Nuvospec)
- Web: https://nuvospec.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomashamilton/
- X: https://x.com/tomilton