CTO of Open IT Works
Interview by Richard Martin
  Photograph by Jeffery Newbury |
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ONCE IS ENOUGH "We know CIOs have limited budgets, and they're duplicating a lot of work that their colleagues are doing," Jespersen says. "We identify portions of activities that are routine and [help them] collaborate to take advantage of common solutions, rather than reinventing the wheel each time." |
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ALL TOGETHER Open IT Works is similar to the open source model, he says, "but instead of just source code, we're creating solutions: code, best practices, evaluations, documentation--anything that makes sense to work on as common parts of the enterprise." |
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ON THE RUN Jespersen is training for October's Portland Marathon with a group called Team in Training, which benefits the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. "We do a track workout one night a week at the Stanford track, and then on the weekend we do longer trail runs in places all over the [San Francisco] peninsula." |
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RISK AVERSE A current project for Open IT Works is open source applications: "We're working on issues that CIOs are concerned about: how to manage open source projects, how to minimize the risks to the enterprise, how to select a license, and so on." |
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WAR'S END An amateur Civil War historian, Jespersen had his own military experience in Vietnam. "In 1973, at the end of the war, I was running the military telephone system in Saigon. U.S. involvement had ratcheted way down, but we were still bombing. We'd wake up and hear B-52s rumbling in the distance--it was like an earthquake." |