About
Hi, I'm Tom.
I've called Marquette home my entire life — minus a few years away from 2011 to 2015, which honestly just reminded me how much I didn't want to be anywhere else. I went to MSHS, graduated from NMU with a finance degree in 2010, and came back for good.
These days I live here with my wife, our two kids, and two golden doodles who have absolutely no concept of personal space. It's a full house and I wouldn't trade it.
Before starting Marquette Drone Services, I spent years in the business world — financial consulting, restaurant management, and most recently as a sales and business manager at a local car dealership. That background shapes how I run this business. I know what it means to manage things carefully, treat customers like people, and be accountable for results. You're not calling a faceless company — you're calling a neighbor who has a reputation to uphold in the same town we both live in.
The drones hooked me for two reasons. There's the pure visual side first — aerial photography that stops you in your tracks because you've never seen your neighborhood, your property, or this landscape from that angle before. Marquette from the air is something else entirely.
But the thermal imaging is what really got me. The ability to see heat from the sky — things completely invisible to the naked eye — feels like a superpower. Finding where a house is bleeding heat before a U.P. winter, spotting a failing component on a utility line, or helping locate a missing person after dark. That's work that actually matters.
And when someone calls about a lost pet? I take that one personally. I know exactly what it feels like to have a dog that means everything to your family. I'll be there fast.
