Ray Ozzie

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Ray Ozzie

Ray Ozzie at the Web 2.0 Conference
Born (1955-11-20) November 20, 1955
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Alma mater University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known for Chief Software Architect, Microsoft
Lotus Notes
Spouse(s) Dawna Bousquet
Children Neil Ozzie
Jill Ozzie

Raymond "Ray" Ozzie (born November 20, 1955) is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010. Before Microsoft, he was best known for his role in creating Lotus Notes.[1]

Biography

He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, later moving to Park Ridge, Illinois and graduating from Maine South High School in 1973 where he learned to program on a GE-400 mainframe and did technical work on school theater productions.

He received his bachelor's degree in computer science in 1979 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where he worked on the PLATO system, and began his working career at Data General Corporation where he worked for Jonathan Sachs. After leaving Data General, Ozzie worked at Software Arts for Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston, the creators of VisiCalc, on that product and TK Solver. Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by Sachs and Mitch Kapor to work for Lotus Development to develop what became Lotus Symphony. Ozzie left Lotus Development in 1984 and founded Iris Associates to create the product later sold by Lotus as Lotus Notes, based in part on his experiences using the PLATO Notes group messaging system.[2] Iris Associates was acquired by Lotus in 1994, and Lotus itself was acquired by IBM in 1995.

Ozzie worked there for several years before leaving to form Groove Networks. Groove was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, where Ozzie became one of three Chief Technical Officers. That year, he wrote a seven-page, 5,000-word internal memo, titled The Internet Services Disruption:[3] "It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know it is at risk ... We must respond quickly and decisively."[1]

On June 15, 2006, Ozzie took over the role of Chief Software Architect from Bill Gates.[1]

In October 2009 he founded "FUSE Labs" (Future Social Experiences) within Microsoft to focus on innovation around future social web experience.

Ozzie officially announced his plans to step down from his role at Microsoft on October 18, 2010[1] and his final day was December 31, 2010.

In January 2012 Ozzie started a new company called Cocomo.[4] In the latest SEC filing the venture has been renamed Talko, and has raised $4M.

See also

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Microsoft’s Top Software Architect, a Cloud Computing Advocate, Quits". New York Times. October 18, 2010. Retrieved 2010-10-19. "... Heralded as one of the world’s great programmers, Mr. Ozzie, before working for Microsoft, steered the creation of Lotus Notes, a popular e-mail and collaborative workspace software package. Then, during the dot-com boom, he started Groove Networks, another collaboration software maker, that swapped data using more modern techniques. ..." 
  2. ↑ The Friendly Orange Glow by Brian Dear
  3. ↑ Ozzie, Ray (October 28, 2005). "The Internet Services Disruption". Retrieved 22 February 2013. 
  4. ↑ LaMonica, Martin (January 5, 2012). "Ray Ozzie starts new venture Cocomo". CNET News. 

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