Todd was born and raised in Milwaukee, WI. where at the early age of five he began his lifelong passion for percussion by taking up the drums after his uncle bought him a set of Sears drums for Christmas. Seeing the diamond in the rough talent their young son had Todd's parents enrolled him in private lessons with a prestigious local teacher, Mike Kowaleski.  Over the next nine years, he honed his fundamentals by playing in the grade school marching band and jazz ensemble programs of the high school he would attend later.

While attending Wisconsin Lutheran High School Todd was the percussion section leader for the concert and symphonic orchestras as well as the marching band program. He also played for the Wisconsin State Music Competition award winning WLHS Jazz Ensemble. Besides being the 1^st chair drummer all four years, he won numerous awards including the Louis Armstrong Jazz Award, which is given for excellence in jazz performance, as a sophomore. 

It was also during this time that Todd attended the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee. While studying piano, total percussion, and jazz improv, he also found himself in his first band playing gigs around town. Knowing that drums and music would always be a major part of his life, Todd headed on the road shortly after graduating high school. The lessons learned as a young drummer helped him develop personally as well as hone his exciting stage persona and flare that garnered the attention of many regional acts.  Over the course of the next 9 years, he would play in several very popular local and regional bands touring the Midwest and opening for bands like The BoDeans, The Violent Femmes, and Jerry Harrison of the Talking Heads to name a few.

In 1989 Todd found himself in Florida re-forming a band he co-founded in Milwaukee a couple of years earlier. In addition to playing in several bands during the next eleven years in "A" circuit clubs and major venues in the Southeast, he also started teaching percussion classes for the local middle school and high school bands, and opened his own drum school where he taught private drum lessons from 1996-2000. Although he enjoyed much success in Florida, Todd was looking to take his career to the next level. It was early in the year of 2000 that a good friend, who had just returned to Florida from recording in Nashville, approached him and "suggested" that he give Music City a try. With abundant support from family and friends, Todd made the move to Nashville in 2001. 

Within a couple of months he landed a house band gig in downtown Nashville. While playing in the house band for over a year, in July of 2002 Todd was asked if he would like the job as the tour drummer for the Christian Country Music Association's award winning band the Fox Brothers. He gladly accepted the opportunity, and is in his fourth year with the Brothers who are the 7-time and reining Inspirational Country Music's Vocal Group of the Year as well as the ICM’s 3-time Entertainers of the Year. In addition to those illustrious awards, they have also won numerous other Christian Country and Gospel music awards over their long career. As well as playing at fairs and festivals while touring the US and Canada throughout the year, The Fox Brothers are no strangers to the Grand Ole' Opry or the CMA Music Festival, having played the prestigious "Mother Church of Country Music" Ryman Auditorium and the Opry House as well as the River Stages during the CMA Music Fest several times.

Besides being a Mapex Artist, Todd also endorses ProMark Drumsticks. He feels that he has been "very, very blessed", and is looking forward to many more years of success both in his future in music and in his life in Music City.