Ted Johnson

Current

• Partner PM Architect, Internet Explorer at Microsoft

Past

• Co-founder and Vice President of Products at Trumba Corporation
• Corporate Vice President at Microsoft Corporation
• Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product Development at Visio Corporation

• Director of PageMaker Development at Aldus Corporation
• Programmer at Carlisle Systems Corporation
• Programmer at Atex, Inc.
• Programmer at Minneapolis Star and Tribune

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Education

• University of Minnesota

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Industry

Computer Software

Ted Johnson’s Summary

Veteran software developer/entrepreneur back at Microsoft in a software architect role.

Ted Johnson’s Specialties:

Entrepreneurial leadership, software product design, software design and development, graphics applications development

Ted Johnson’s Experience

• Partner PM Architect, Internet Explorer

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  August 2008 — Present (1 year 4 months)

  PM Architect for graphics and rendering in Internet Explorer 9.

• Co-founder and Vice President of Products

  Trumba Corporation

  (Computer Software industry)

  October 2003 — January 2008 (4 years 4 months)

  Trumba Corporation is a Seattle-based developer of innovative online calendaring solutions that help businesses and organizations effectively publish, promote and communicate their events online. Its product, Trumba Connect, is "Software as a Service" and is licensed on a subscription basis. Customers include newspapers, colleges and universities, high schools, churches, community arts organizations, municipal governments, and political campaigns.

• Corporate Vice President

  Microsoft Corporation

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  January 2000 — September 2003 (3 years 9 months)

  As Corporate Vice President of the Business Tools Division I oversaw four Microsoft product groups -- Microsoft Project, Visio, Publisher, and MapPoint -- and two division-wide service organizations -- user assistance and localization.

• Co-founder and Executive Vice President of Product Development

  Visio Corporation

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; VSIO; Computer Software industry)

  September 1990 — December 1999 (9 years 4 months)

  Co-founded Visio Corporation with Jeremy Jaech and Dave Walter in the fall of 1990. Visio went public in 1995 and was acquired by Microsoft in January 2000. I managed the product development function during the entire time the company existed.

• Director of PageMaker Development

  Aldus Corporation

  (Public Company; 501-1000 employees; ALDC; Computer Software industry)

  May 1985 — August 1990 (5 years 4 months)

  Joined Aldus as employee #12 to bring PageMaker to the PC. Dave Walter, Clyde McQueen, and I designed a C-language rewrite of the original Pascal-language Macintosh PageMaker software so that the same source code could be compiled for either Macintosh or Microsoft Windows. Managed the PageMaker team the bulk of my time at Aldus. Aldus has since been acquired by Adobe Systems, Inc.

• Programmer

  Carlisle Systems Corporation

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  November 1983 — April 1985 (1 year 6 months)

  Joined startup consulting company which developed the hardware design and dedicated software for a so-called "personal computer word processor," the Minolta PCW-1. The machine was basically an Intel 80186-based PC that included a printer and word processing software.

• Programmer

  Atex, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Software industry)

  July 1980 — October 1983 (3 years 4 months)

  Led the development of Atex's editorial news layout system based on the ideas of Rodgers Adams of the Minneapolis Star. The system was installed at many large newspapers in the early to mid 1980s including USA Today, Minneapolis Star and Tribune, and Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (FAZ).

• Programmer

  Minneapolis Star and Tribune

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Newspapers industry)

  March 1977 — June 1980 (3 years 4 months)

  Maintained and developed utilities for the Star and Tribune's Atex newspaper editorial and classified ad systems. Developed the prototype of a news layout system later acquired by Atex.

Ted Johnson’s Education

• University of Minnesota

  BS , Computer Science , September 1975 — March 1982

Additional Information

Ted Johnson’s Groups:

Seattle Children's Hospital Foundation Board of Trustees, University of Minnesota College of Design Board of Advisors

•    Aldus Corporation Alumni
•    Visio Alumni
•    Washington Technology Industry Association (WTIA)
•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees

Ted Johnson’s Honors:

1999 University of Minnesota Computer Science & Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award

Ted Johnson’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• job inquiries
• expertise requests
• business deals
• reference requests
• getting back in touch