- Ray Ozzie
Infobox Person
name = Ray Ozzie
caption = Ray Ozzie at the Web 2.0 Conference
birth_date = birth date and age|1955|11|20
birth_place =Park Ridge, Illinois , U.S.
occupation =Chief Software Architect ,Microsoft
networth =
spouse = Dawna Bousquet
children = Two
website =
footnotes =Ray Ozzie (born
November 20 ,1955 ) isChief Software Architect atMicrosoft . He was formerly best known for his role in creatingLotus Notes .He grew up in
Park Ridge, Illinois , graduating fromMaine South High School in 1973. In high school, he learned to program on a GE-400 mainframe and did technical work on school theater productions.He received his
bachelor's degree incomputer science in1979 from theUniversity of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign , where he worked on thePLATO system , and began his working career at Data General Corporation where he worked forJonathan Sachs . After leaving Data General, Ozzie worked atSoftware Arts forDan Bricklin andBob Frankston , the creators ofVisiCalc , on that product andTK Solver . Shortly thereafter, he was recruited by Sachs andMitch Kapor to work for Lotus Development to develop what becameLotus Symphony . Ozzie leftLotus Development in 1984 and foundedIris Associates to create the product later sold by Lotus asLotus Notes .Iris Associates was acquired by Lotus in 1994, and Lotus itself was acquired byIBM in 1995. Ozzie worked there for several years before leaving to form Groove Networks. Groove was acquired byMicrosoft in 2005, where Ozzie became one of threeChief Technical Officer s.Ozzie and his wife, Dawna Bousquet, have two children, Neil Ozzie and Jill Ozzie.
On
June 15 2006 , Ozzie took over the role ofChief Software Architect fromBill Gates .External links
* [http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2000/10/24/ozzie_interview.html Interview] about Groove.
* [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2005/mar05/03-10GrooveQA.asp Microsoft press release] on Groove acquisition, with quote from Ozzie
* [http://spaces.msn.com/editorial/rayozzie/pub/pages/who.html Ray Ozzie's detailed work history]
* [http://spaces.msn.com/editorial/rayozzie/old/blog/index.html Ray Ozzie's pre-Microsoft Weblog]
* [http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2006/jun06/06-15CorpNewsPR.mspx Microsoft Press Release Announcing Ozzie taking on position of Chief Software Architect]
* [http://www.sriramkrishnan.com/blog/2006/10/ray-ozzie-review.html Ray Ozzie Review] An employee's account of a 'Ray Ozzie' review
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