Harold Gray

I have spent more than forty-five years doing one thing: making complicated systems work. Where that work happens has changed many times. What it is for has not.

I started on IBM 360/370 mainframes and the front ends that fed them. At The Southern Company I became chief software support for their nuclear fuel systems, where the tolerance for error is exactly zero — a discipline that never left me. From there I worked on Tandem NonStop, contributing specialized engineering within large enterprise teams at TSYS, one of the world's largest payment processors — building and deploying mission-critical components on architectures where fault tolerance was non-negotiable. In the 1980s I co-founded AtLANta Technologies, a three-person company that won a national competitive NASA contract by outperforming major vendors in live, on-site demonstrations — integrating Banyan VINES, Novell NetWare, Microsoft LAN Manager, and Allen-Bradley broadband into a unified system that supported launch operations and early Space Station networking. The firm also laid broadband networks across the Southeast for Pfizer, Disney, and Michelin.

Then Windows NT arrived, and I made the decision that became the through-line of my career: I went all in on Microsoft. In 1993 I earned a three-digit Microsoft Certified Professional number — among the first few hundred people in the world. For fifteen-plus years I architected and supported JEA's enterprise SharePoint environment, alongside dozens of Microsoft-stack projects nationwide, from General Motors onward.

Along the way I built Clarity, software grounded in an original model for structuring human conversation. I'm still chasing that thread today at Business Ingenuity, in the work we call Edgy. The platforms have spanned generations; the conviction has stayed constant: systems should make work clearer, smarter, and more human. I live in Georgia, where I keep building systems that make hard problems easier.