11 Facts About Ron Schnell

Ronald Steven Schnell was born on November 10,1966 and is an American computer programmer in Weston, Florida.

Ron Schnell was co-founder of Mail Call in 1997 and the chief technology officer of Rand Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.

In 1982, Ron Schnell wrote a chat program for Telenet called NET-TALK, while at the Maryland timesharing company Dialcom; this led to helping test the BBC Micro.

Ron Schnell wrote the text adventure game DUNNET in 1983 for MacLisp and 1992 for Emacs Lisp.

Between late 1986 and throughout the 1990s, Ron Schnell was a Unix kernel consultant.

Ron Schnell moved to the west coast, and founded his first startup in 1990, Secure Online Systems.

Ron Schnell co-founded Mail Call in 1997 in Florida; the product used IVR and back-end text-to-speech.

From 2002 to 2005, Ron Schnell was a divisional vice president at Equifax.

Ron Schnell was general manager of The Technical Committee in Seattle, a court-mandated computer-software-nonprofit that monitored Microsoft's compliance with a federal court ruling.

In 2015, Ron Schnell became CTO of the Rand Paul presidential campaign; he hosted a hackathon in San Francisco during July 2015.

Ron Schnell plays Segway polo, and in 2007 co-founded the Polo Bears team.