Thomas J. Routt, Ph.D., Information and Security Architect, is a recognized expert in network architecture, information security, mobile computing, systems management, and quantum computing. He has over 25 years experience in solving business IT problems in computer manufacturer, telecommunications, electronics, utilities, energy, health care, biomedical, financials, materials, aerospace, transportation, industrials, entertainment and public sectors. He also has a strong record of program management, strategic partner management, and strategic planning and deployment.

Professional Highlights

• Guided Fortune 500 enterprises in the evaluation, selection, acquisition, and deployment of US$1B in computing, network and security solutions for data center-centric, peer-to-peer, mobile computing, and broadband switching infrastructures.
• Led definition, architecture, design and deployment of Fortune 500 enterprise network security architectures.
• Served as Director of F5 Networks during its formative stage. F5 Networks develops application traffic management and load balancing technologies that optimize and scale highly-available, secure Web services.
• As Manager, Boeing Network Architecture, co-developed Boeing’s standards-based multiprotocol, multivendor network application resource across seven data centers and 14 network operations centers.
• Led development of an aerospace database tracking multi-million parts per airplane—from tooling, sub-assembly, major assembly, final assembly, to rollout—ensuring on-time, in-budget aircraft deliveries.
• Expert Witness in Fortune 500 litigation related to mission-critical network application availability and management, Service Level Agreements, Quality of Service (QoS), Enterprise License Agreements.
• Keynote, Chair, Presenter, NetWorld+Interop Instructor and Broadband Session Chair at conferences, symposia and seminars, addressing thousands of C-Level executives and IT professionals on six continents.

Education

B.S. Environmental Science, Western Washington University.

M.B.A. Information Systems, Southern Illinois University. Beta Gamma Sigma.

Ph.D. Computer Science, Maharishi European Research University, affiliated with Maharishi University of Management, Iowa.

Publications

Published 80 articles in Business Communications Review, Data Communications, McGraw-Hill, UCLA JOLT on network architecture, information security, system performance, and electronic discovery. Two books—Quantum Computing, 1st World Publishing, 2005, ISBN 978-1-59540-941-6; and SNA and TCP/IP Enterprise Networking, edited text, Prentice-Hall-Manning, 1997, ISBN 0-13-127168-7.

Patents

Six patents issued and pending related to: Quantum computing and networking; Quantum search; Secure mobile and stationary assets; Secure supply chain management; Content-aware secure assets; Digital rights management.