About Me

I’m Tim Jones, an established software developer in Tampa, FL.  Pretty much any development work on Linux or Solaris interests me (but not games).   I have worked full-time as an Advisory Systems Engineer at Syniverse Technologies since 2001.  Prior to that, I was self-employed as LinuxTampa.com, and had a variety of interesting development positions through most of the 1990s.

I’m also an avid brass musician.  I play cornet in Sunshine Brass, tuba in Wesley Chapel Wind Ensemble and Cypress Creek Dixieland.  I am an alternate player for the student musicians in Brasstastick, and I hope to have a quintet someday called Tampa Bay Brass.

In addition to playing most of the brasses, I play the recorder family (sopranino, soprano and alto), a little folk/classical guitar, a bit of piano, and have some basic proficiency in clarinet, saxophone.   I also own a violin and cello, but do not play them well at all.  One instrument I’d like to return to someday is the bassoon.