Ray Ozzie
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Ray Ozzie at the Web 2.0 Conference
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| Born |
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.
He grew up in Chicago, Illinois, later moving to Park Ridge, Illinois and graduating from Maine South High School in 1973 where, in 1969, he learned to program on a GE-400 mainframe and an Olivetti-Underwood Programma 101.
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.Iris Associates was acquired by Lotus in 1994, and Lotus itself was acquired by IBM in 1995.
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