Ron Schnell
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Ron Schnell in 2011
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| Born |
November 10, 1966 New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Other names | Ronnie Schnell, Ronald Steven Schnell |
| Alma mater | Syracuse University |
| Known for | speaking at NYU (age 14), co-founder of Mail Call, CTO of Paul'16 |
| Website | Driver-Aces |
Ron Schnell (born Ronald Steven Schnell on November 10, 1966; sometimes Ronnie Schnell) is a computer programmer in Weston, Florida and was co-founder of Mail Call in 1997. He was the CTO of Rand Paul's 2016 presidential campaign.
Schnell began programming in 1975 (age nine), on the IBM 360 mainframe. In 1981, he tested and spoke about SETL (for VAX minicomputers) at NYU's Courant Institute. In 1982, 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. Schnell wrote the text adventure game DUNNET in 1983 for MacLisp and 1992 for eLisp. After high school, Schnell attended Syracuse University from 1984 through 1986, and was a DJ on WJPZ-FM
Between late 1986 and throughout the 1990s, Schnell was a Unix kernel consultant. He moved to the west coast, and founded his first startup in 1990, Secure Online Systems. He co-founded Mail Call in 1997 in Florida; the product used IVR and back-end text-to-speech (subscribers could call a toll-free number, and check their email via the telephone—Mail Call was before the invention of the smartphone). From 2002-2005, Schnell was a divisional vice president at Equifax. Schnell was general manager of The Technical Committee in Seattle, a court-mandated computer-software-nonprofit which monitored Microsoft's compliance with a federal court ruling.
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