Acoustical Consultant, Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Incorporated, Boston, MA, c. 1981-2007; Senior Partner, McKay Conant Hoover (MCH), Incorporated, Westlake Village, CA, 2007- .

Board of Directors, National Council of Acoustical Consultants, (1999-present), President (2002-2004), National Council of Acoustical Consultants. Chair, Acoustics Society of America, Technical Committee on Architectural Acoustics, 2001-2004; Member, Editorial Board, Acoustics Today; Board Certified Member, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, 1985-present. Member, Audio Engineering Society. Member, American Federation of Teachers (AFT).

Fellow, Acoustical Society of America (FASA). Recipient, Theodore John Schultz Grant for Advancement of Acoustical Education, Robert Bradford Newman Fund; Newman was a Founding Partner of the acoustical engineering firm, Bolt Beranek and Newman, Incorporated, a firm for whom Ronald L. McKay (1932-2011) and David Conant worked.

B.A. American Studies, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN, 1976; M.S. Acoustics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 1981.

His biography posted on the McKay Conant Hoover web site stated of Hoover: "Tony Hoover brings 26 years of experience with the acoustical consulting firm of Cavanaugh Tocci Associates, Inc., in Boston, MA. Prior to joining MCH in 2007, Tony has been the principal acoustical consultant on nearly 1,700 projects involving all building types and all areas of architectural acoustics. He has served as expert witness from Federal District Court to US Congressional Hearing. He concurrently held faculty positions at the Berklee College of Music and Boston Architectural Center. Tony has served in numerous leadership positions, chaired or co-chaired numerous technical sessions on architectural and musical acoustics at various ASA meetings, and is a member of the working group on the ANSI “Classroom Acoustics Standard”. In 1992 he received the Theodore John Schultz Grant and wrote the textbook, “An Appreciation of Acoustics”, and has received numerous design awards for architectural acoustics." (See "K. Anthony Hoover,"Accessed 03/12/2014.)