Education
After high school, Schnell attended Syracuse University from 1984 through 1986, and was a DJ on WJPZ-FM.
After high school, Schnell attended Syracuse University from 1984 through 1986, and was a DJ on WJPZ-FM.
He was the Chief Technology Officer of Rand Paul"s 2016 presidential campaign. Schnell began programming in 1975 (age nine), on the International Business Machines Corporation 360 mainframe. In 1981, he tested and spoke about SETL (for VAX minicomputers) at New York University"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 British Broadcasting Corporation Micro. Schnell wrote the text adventure game DUNNET in 1983 for MacLisp and 1992 for eLisp.
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.
Starting in 2013, Schnell became an adjunct professor of Computer Security at Nova Southeastern University.
In 2015, Schnell also became Chief Technology Officer of the Rand Paul presidential campaign. He hosted a hackathon in San Francisco during July 2015.
Schnell architected the app for Paul"16 (featuring a hidden game, vote feedback, donations, and virtual-selfies).