Ray Ozzie Email & Phone Number

United States

Boston, Ma, Us

Houston, Texas, Us

Seattle, Washington, Us

Shibuya-Ku, Tokyo, Jp

Founded and led a company that delivered mobile apps & services for business team communications, primarily focused on those roles in which voice is essential. Co-founders were Eric Patey (dev) and Matt Pope (product). Talko was purchased by Microsoft in December of 2015 so as to fuel innovation in Skype for consumers and for business.

Washington, District Of Columbia, Us

Redmond, Washington, Us

Assumed the CSA (chief software architect) role in June 2006, when chairman/CSA Bill Gates announced his intent to relinquish the role on the transition from Microsoft to working full-time at his foundation. In activities as CSA, was responsible for oversight of the company’s overall technical strategy and product architecture, and for driving its transition to services and the cloud. Also led "concept development labs" charged with creating and nurturing potentially-disruptive advanced development efforts, including one key project (“Red Dog”) led by Dave Cutler and Amitabh Srivastava that grew to become Microsoft’s Azure.

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After coming to the conclusion that Notes-like client/server architectures fundamentally would not adequately address the dynamic collaboration requirements of a decentralized business environment, founded Groove Networks to create personally-empowering, secure, mobile, ad hoc, decentralized collaboration software for both individuals and enterprises. Co-founders Ken Moore, Jack Ozzie, and Eric Patey led the development organization; my part was largely in conceptualization and design, and in leading and helping to build the rest of the business. Groove Networks was purchased by Microsoft in April of 2005.

Founded and led Iris Associates, to create what has become Lotus Notes, the defining enterprise “groupware” and email product used by more than 120 million people at corporations worldwide for collaboration within large enterprises. Iris, a software design & development firm that is now part of the IBM/Lotus Software Group, was co-founded by Tim Halvorsen and Len Kawell, and was purchased by Lotus Development in 1994, and by IBM in 1995.

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Hired by Mitch Kapor and Jonathan Sachs at Lotus Development, just after Lotus 1-2-3 Release 1 had shipped. Did a small amount of work on 1-2-3 1A, and led a small team (Barry Spencer, Matt Stern) to create Lotus Symphony (8086 assembly) – one of the first “office productivity suite” products originally intended to be the second major release of Lotus 1-2-3.

Somewhat obsessed with and haunted by collaboration and online community concepts experienced at PLATO, deeply inspired by reading Ted Nelson and Doug Englebart, and believing that the world would be fully embracing PC’s and networks by 1983 because of using a pre-release IBM PC and 3Com Ethernet card while at Software Arts, developed functional specifications and plans for the product that would later be known as Lotus Notes, with the intent of starting a software company to build it. Failed to obtain funding.

Hired by Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston at Software Arts, creator of VisiCalc. Did a small amount of work on the Z80 port of VisiCalc (under development lead Seth Steinberg), and later led the team that built the VM (Z80, 6502, 8086, PDP-11, 68000 assembly) for a Lisp-like language (“IL”) being built to ensure the cross-machine portability of VisiCalc and TK!Solver.

With three people from Digital Equipment Corporation, co-founded a startup, “Microcosm Corporation”, to create a workstation product based on National‘s VAX-like 16032 microprocessor. Failed to obtain funding.

Las Rozas, Madrid, Es

Hired by Jonathan Sachs to write the workstation OS for an early LAN-based operating environment a.k.a. “Not Much” (NOVA assembly), consisting of MicroNOVA intelligent workstations, Eclipse file and print servers, and a token-passing bus LAN. Project led by Jon; the other member of core development team was Scott Norin.

Co-founded Urbana Software Enterprises and co-implemented VM (Z80) for a standalone computer system intended to be a commercial micro-sized personal version of the PLATO teaching environment. Founder was Paul Tenczar; co-founder was Ron Klass. Company later became TenCORE, and was ultimately acquired by Computer Teaching Corporation.

While programming coursework on an IBM 360/75 as a computer science student, was fortunate to have also been hired as a systems programmer on the seminal University of Illinois PLATO project at the Computer-based Education Research Laboratory (CERL), thanks to Paul Tenczar and Don Bitzer. Implemented (CDC 6600 and Z80 assembly) an assembler, dynamic linker/loader and firmware for an early “intelligent terminal” for PLATO system, enabling decentralized computing for an otherwise centralized interpreted language execution environment. One of tens of thousands of people who became fully immersed in the world’s first “online community” and all that that implies. Was exposed to eMail and online discussions (a.k.a. “Notes”), instant messaging and chat rooms (a.k.a. "Talkomatic"), massive multiplayer gaming, online project collaboration.

Technician in engineering labs of Vapor Corporation, at the time an Illinois manufacturer of myriad systems and devices serving the transportation industry. Worked on early locomotive telemetric data logging & dead man control devices.

Technician at Dept of Nuclear Engineering, University of Illinois. Implemented (Lockheed SUE, Intel 4004 and 8080 assembly) custom measurement & control devices and support for TRIGA reactor experiments, doing both hardware and software development.

Systems programmer at Protection Mutual Insurance Company. Implemented (IBM System/3 RPG, Microdata REALITY microcode) decentralized batch execution environment.

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Did various projects for faculty, first developing for an Olivetti-Underwood Programma 101, and then using an ASR-33 dialed into Tymshare to program a GE 400 in Fortran & Basic.