Tyler Jones, founder of SystemTrends, LLC, worked 11 years in para-church ministries. He has worked with Web technologies since 1994. After serving with Christian Business Men's Committee for four years, Tyler joined Crown Financial Ministries, where he spent seven years focusing on Web application development and business process management.

As manager of Extranet Development, Tyler introduced and developed the ministry's first Extranet, architected and built enterprise Web applications and streamlined certain core business processes to better facilitate the move to browser-based applications. Before starting SystemTrends, Tyler served his last two years at Crown as Director of Web Services. In that role, he was responsible for the ministries’ webs and their integration with enterprise systems.