Hello I'm Tim Bailey-Jones: software developer, devops engineer, and brass musician. This article shows a number of sites that I created or am strongly associated with. TimCod.ES - my technical blog. If you know terms like JSON, RESTful, or Serverless, you might find it interesting. LinuxTampa.com. I do some side work …

Certification List Here is my certification list on LinkedIn.com GCP (since 2023) AWS (since 2017) These can be verified at CertMetrics AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA)AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Associate (SAA) Credential ID SFJZ9X8J1FRQ1HSV$ Amazon Web Services (AWS) AWS Certified Devops …

My band, Cypress Creek Dixieland, just released our first Christmas-themed album: “All That Chrimstmas Jazz”. I’m their tuba player. We’ve been playing in the Tampa area for over 12 years. Enjoy!

I worked at Syniverse for a total of 15 years, from 2001-2016. Thank you for your interest in my work history. If you're seeing this message, it just means I have not completed this article yet. Please check back later.

I worked at CandidPartners from May 2020 to December 2020. On January 1st, 2021, McKinsey bought CandidPartners, and for the first year (all of 2021), Client Team background At CandidPartners, I settled into an existing DevOps team at Repay.com, a large credit card processing company. It is a "true" DevOps …

I worked at Impulse Point from August 2016 to March 2017. This was a really cool company. The first day was like this: 1 "Here's a Dell workstation with 16G and 1 TB drive. Configure it any way you want." A Linux-geek's DREAM! An hour later, I had Kubuntu Linux installed, with all the development tools …

I was self-employed at LinuxTampa for 18 months. Thank you for your interest in my work history. If you're seeing this message, it just means I have not completed this article yet. Please check back later.

I worked at Lucent August 1995 to February 1997. Thank you for your interest in my work history. If you're seeing this message, it just means I have not completed this article yet. Please check back later.

I worked at McKinsey for a total of 3 years, all of 2021, 2022, 2023, and January/February 2024. Matter Foundations By far, my best experience at McKinsey was working with their Matter Foundations product (MF)! The best analogy I have for explaining MF involves residential homes in suburban subdivisions. To build a new …

I worked at Perot Systems from January 1998 to August 1999. Thank you for your interest in my work history. If you're seeing this message, it just means I have not completed this article yet. Please check back later.

I worked at Stelligent from July 2017 to April 2020. This was the most impactful job change of my career. It was the first time I got to work remotely and first time I worked on public cloud infrastructure. In fact, Stelligent operated (at the time) a fabulous 90-day training program to get new hires like me …

I worked at TSC from April 1992 to August 1995. It was one of my first serious programming jobs. TSC stood for Transportation Systems Consulting. The owner of TSC was George D.S. Andrews, a very fine upper-crust British gentleman (in every sense of the word) who loved to fly, had a pilot license, and enjoyed a long …