Biography
Tommy Jones was the interim Chief Technology Officer of the City of Philadelphia following Allan Frank’s Feb. 1, 2011 departure until August 2011 when his successor Adel Ebeid was named.
Formerly, Jones was a Deputy CTO in the Washington D.C. city government office for two years before leaving to work under Frank in November 2009. Jones has also worked in municipal governments in New Jersey, in addition to IT retail, accounting and the U.S. Air Force.
Technical.ly Coverage (18 posts)
- Long delayed Philly 311 mobile app pledged by this summer
- City of Philadelphia IT consolidation: a status report as new CIO Adel Ebeid settles in
- License to Inspect: two years later, City of Philadelphia L&I API will drive PlanPhilly transparency app
- Adel Ebeid: a conversation with the first ever City of Philadelphia Chief Innovation Officer [Q&A]
- Adel Ebeid: Meet the first ever Chief Innovation Officer of the City of Philadelphia
- What problems will the new City of Philadelphia Chief Technology Officer inherit?
- Phila.gov business services portal to add 75% of licenses and permit applications online by 2012, interactivity
- DATA CRUNCHED: how the country’s first community open data catalog got done
- City Council President: “Why are we are still having a problem with the Internet?”and other Links
- Rich Negrin: City Managing Director running 311, PhillyStat and city IT on the future of Philly open gov [Q&A]
- Three steps for the City of Philadelphia to have clear path for releasing data, says interim CTO Tommy Jones
- 3 priorities for $120M Digital Philadelphia budget: CTO Tommy Jones
- OpenDataPhilly.org: city data catalog to launch April 25 during Philly Tech Week
- Jim Kenney: expanded college internships could move forward city priorities, like open gov
- Allan Frank wants to be ‘the Pat Croce of technology’: outgoing city CIO Q&A
- What is Chief Technology Officer Allan Frank’s City of Philadelphia legacy?
- Tommy Jones, interim City of Philadelphia CTO: Top Three Priorities for 2011
- Allan Frank: Philadelphia CTO is leaving, pointed city ‘the way to the promised land’ he says