About Us

Mark Meyer

Mark Meyer

Mr. Meyer prides himself as a “parallel” entrepreneur with over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, working throughout Washington since 1987 and with the Olympia area IT community since 2002. He brings executive leadership, organizational, marketing, operation and sales acumen to the CodeSmart team. He thoroughly understands how all the pieces “fit together” and ensures security for all of the tech components.

Mark has successfully grown CodeSmart an average of 30% each year since 2009, successfully taken software products to market and spawned a few companies (OUBT and Omiga Solutions as successful

examples). Producing the second ever registered IT apprenticeship program in Washington and creating software solutions for Municipal and District Courts.

Focused on delivering quality solutions to the client, Mark is looked to as a leader in the industry. He understands customer needs, which leads to initiatives that build their business and helps assemble the team to deliver.

To date he has worked with businesses such as: Microsoft, Car Toys, Wireless Advocates, AT&T Wireless, T-Mobile, State of Washington (numerous agencies), Tableau Software, Bartell Drugs Avenu Insight and Analytics, Xerox and many more.

Leadership Principles

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Integrity

We uphold ourselves to highest ethical standards which earns the trust of our clients and stakeholders.

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Customer Focus

The customer is the reason we exist and the only guarantee of our future. That is why we always try to keep our customers happy.

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Diversity

We are an inclusive workplace. We do not discriminate under any circumstances.

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Respect

We believe in respecting everyone based on their own merit. Respect given bequeaths respect received.

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Being Nimble

We are always up on our feet and are always ready to take on new challenges and deliver best possible solutions to clients.

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Curiosity

Curiosity is what propels us to keep learning new things, technologies and methods.

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Empowerment

We believe in empowering our employees with the latest technologies and inspiring them to increase their productivity.

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Ownership

We think long term and do not sacrifice long-term value for short-term gain. We prioritise company and team over individual efforts.

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Innovation

We expect and require innovation our teams and always find ways to simplify. We are externally aware, look for new ideas from everywhere.

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Being Agile

We are always up-to-date with latest technologies and we believe in incorporating Agile methodologies in all our deliverables.

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It’s Safe to Fail

We believe that our failures lead to our successes. We enshrine acceptance of failure — and willingness to admit failure early — in the practices and processes of the company.

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Excellence

We embed excellence in everything that we do; all the while looking to make things better based on our natural inquisitiveness.

Mission

We are committed to providing our employees with a positive and diverse work environment that encourages continued learning and personal growth. This allows our employees to unlock their creativity and be inspired to provide first class solutions to our customers.

Our customer focus is to understand high-value solutions and help scale their business while keeping their vision forefront. Each project that PeopleTech takes on is founded on the principle that user experience, information technology, and business goals are interconnected and essential to an exceptional end-result. We provide a broad portfolio of business and technology solutions to help our clients improve their business performance.

Our Culture

An article was recently (June 2019) published in 425 Business magazine about how to grow IT talent and skills. 425 Business interviewed the CEO of People Tech – Vishwa Prasad and President of Codesmart – Mark Meyer about the program designed to bring more talent into the IT business.