Raymond "Ray" Ozzie was born on November 20,1955 and is an American software industry entrepreneur who held the positions of Chief Technical Officer and Chief Software Architect at Microsoft between 2005 and 2010.
13 Facts About Ray Ozzie
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Ray Ozzie 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.
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Ray Ozzie 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.
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Ray 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.
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Ray Ozzie worked there for several years before leaving to form Groove Networks.
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Groove was acquired by Microsoft in 2005, where Ray Ozzie became one of three Chief Technical Officers.
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On June 15,2006, Ray Ozzie took over the role of Chief Software Architect from Bill Gates.
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In October 2008 Ray Ozzie announced Microsoft Azure, the first project to emerge from his advanced development labs focused on new and potentially disruptive approaches to Microsoft's business.
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Ray Ozzie officially announced his plans to step down from his role at Microsoft on October 18,2010 and his final day was December 31,2010.
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Ray Ozzie has said that the name "Talko" was meant as an homage to Talkomatic, a popular group chat program he experienced while working on the PLATO System in the 1970s.
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Ray Ozzie sold the company to Microsoft in December 2015 with the intent to bring Talko's novel voice and productivity features to Microsoft's Skype.
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In 2013, Ray Ozzie joined the board of directors at Hewlett-Packard, and continues to serve as a director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise.
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Ray Ozzie was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2004 for the conception and development of online collaboration products, including Lotus Notes.