Bret Jones, who has 12 years of hospitality industry experience, has joined White Lodging as the general manager of the Fairfield Inn and Suites by Marriott in Tampa. Jones first entered the industry as an intern at the Sheraton Tamarron Resort in Durango, Colo. He then moved to Florida where, for the next six years, he worked in various positions at the Marriott Suites on Sand Key in Clearwater. From this position, he took on the assistant general manager and director of food and beverage duties at the Embassy Suites Westshore in Tampa. He then became the Sheraton Downtown Tampa Riverwalk's assistant general manager and task force general manager. As the task force general manager, he worked in trying to turn around distressed properties for his employer, Crescent Hotels & Resorts. In 2009, he moved to New Jersey where he was the director of operation for the Marriott Mt. Laurel and CocoKey Water Resorts. Coming back to Tampa in the summer of 2010, he most recently was employed by the Front Burner Restaurant Group as the manager of the Grillsmith New American Cuisine restaurant.