Tim is a co-founder and Executive Director of myME: Myanmar Mobile Education Project, which provides education via mobile classrooms to children in Myanmar who have been compelled into indentured servitude at teashop restaurants.

From 2010 to 2012, Tim was the Director of Outreach of Burma Global Action Network where he advocated for Burmese issues, and in 2009 was he an Inaugural Carl Wilkens Fellow with the Genocide Intervention Network.

In 2019, Tim became the chairperson for Non-Formal Education Consortium, Myanmar; in 2017, he became the Focal Person for the Education, Technical, and Vocational Sector Coordination Group, Ministry of Education, Myanmar.