Jim Spohrer
Member Board Of Directors at International Society of Service Innovation Professionals (ISSIP)
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolJim Spohrer is a seasoned technology and service science leader with decades of experience driving innovation at Apple and IBM and now serving on multiple boards to advise industry, academia, governments, and non-profits. He blends deep technical roots in AI, cognitive systems, and mainframe security with a strategic focus on open-source, trusted AI and the emergence of “cognitive mediators” as personal development and negotiation coaches. At IBM he founded and led initiatives in Cognitive OpenTech, university partnerships, and service research that translated into measurable ROI and institutional change; at Apple he pioneered learning platforms and planetary-scale AR ideas. Jim’s work spans research, product, and ecosystem building—publishing, curriculum design, and professional association leadership (ISSIP) to grow T-shaped innovators. Raised on a Maine farm and trained at MIT and Yale, he pairs practical systems thinking with long-term visions for socio-technical, sustainable “whole service” systems.
10 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BS Physics, BS Physics at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyPh.D. Computer Science/Artifical Intelligence/Cognitive Science, Ph.D. Computer Science/Artifical Intelligence/Cognitive Science at Yale UniversityValedictorian Science and Mathematics; Valedictorian; Eagle Scout, Valedictorian Science and Mathematics; Valedictorian; Eagle Scout at Hampden Academy
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (200)
python10
photo10
portainer10
cracking10
recovery10
crypt10
prezto10
docker-container10
inpainting10
dockerfile10
hash-functions10
namespaces10
password-recovery10
monitoring10
opencl10
Programming languages (23)
Github contributions (5)
lnlyssg/lnlyssg.github.io
Apr 2018 - Mar 2025
Contributions:24 PRs, 73 pushes, 24 branches in 7 years
lnlyssg/zos
Oct 2016 - Feb 2022
RACF and z/OS tools and info
Contributions:54 commits, 51 pushes, 6 branches in 5 years 4 months
security
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