Jim VanderMey is a cofounder and Chief Innovation Officer for OST (Open Systems Technologies).   Jim has senior level skills in enterprise architecture (EA), capacity planning and performance analysis, SAN design and implementation, and systems architecture and design. He is a voracious learner and has held many technical certifications ranging from UNIX and Cisco administration through cloud architecture and design.   More recently, Jim has directly led executive innovation projects using Design Science and Human Centered Design (HCD) to creatively develop technology and business solutions to some of the hardest problems of 21st century business.  DevOps, Agile development and the intersection of EA, application development and managing infrastructure as an extension of the code set is part of his current work. 

In some current projects, Jim has been helping executives and business leaders see how to take advantage of the opportunity and innovate inside of the organization as product companies become tech companies through the development of IoT platforms.  In this space the intersection of architecture, data visualization and design can be used to develop important new actionable insights as we gain wisdom from data never before available.

Jim is an avid reader of all types of non-fiction and literature, a journaller (that’s blogging on paper) and most mornings can be found paddling a kayak, canoe or SUP before work.