l deal. The tall, slight, soft-spoken Schmidt is no softie. Well, he did formerly work at Microsoft on some of its more illustrious projects, and also at BEA Systems. Schmidt has also done a stint in film making.
Maybe we'll even see a movie about this some day if Literacy Bridge achieves the success it envisions. Just who will play Schmidt? Take Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, make him a geek and put him in charge of a nonprofit aiming to help the world ... and you'll have Cliff Schmidt.