Thomas J. Routt, PhD

Thomas J. Routt has 25 years experience in computer network architecture, application, design, commercialization and executive management. Dr. Routt has guided Fortune 500 clients in acquisition of US$1 billion in computing and networking systems resulting in multiple times return on investment.

Dr. Routt’s areas of professional expertise include computer network architecture/design, broadband architecture (ATM, SONET, MPLS, WAN routing, Gigabit Ethernet,10GbE), mobile/wireless architecture (mobile network applications, m-commerce, GSM, GPRS, Wi-Fi, WiMAX, DRM), enterprise and carrier network security (policies, guidelines, procedures, standards; access control; Authentication, Authorization, Accounting/Auditing—AAA; disaster recovery; business continuance), enterprise data center architecture, storage networks, relational databases, video-on-demand, service level agreements, predictive modeling, systems management, quantum computing, enterprise IT integration, and IT rapid economic justification.

Dr. Routt is a frequent Keynote, Chair and presenter at conferences and symposia worldwide, including NetWorld+Interop Instructor and Session Chair. He has addressed over one million computing and networking professionals in 60 countries on six continents, and is equally conversant with Fortune 500 executive management and technical experts.

Previously, Dr. Routt co-developed Boeing Network Architecture for The Boeing Company as the pioneering reference network architecture within the Fortune 500. As Manager, Boeing Network Architecture, he orchestrated Boeing’s multi-billion-dollar worldwide network application architecture, design, integration and management throughout seven data centers and 14 Network Operations Centers.

Dr. Routt was Outside Director of F5 Networks, Inc., a Seattle firm that develops Application Traffic Management and traffic load balancing technologies that optimize and scale any application or Web service in a highly available and secure manner, while simplifying deployments by automating the interaction between applications and networks.

Dr. Routt has published over 80 papers in computer network technology and business journals including Business Communications Review, Network World and Data Communications (McGraw-Hill). He authored Quantum Computing (1st World Publishing), and the central chapter of SNA and TCP/IP Enterprise Networking (Prentice-Hall/Manning). He holds two pending patents in quantum computing.

Education

PhD, Computer Science, Maharishi European Research University (MERU), Switzerland and The Netherlands (affiliated with Maharishi University of Management, Fairfield, Iowa), dissertation entitled Quantum Network Architecture.

MBA, Information Systems, Southern Illinois University.

BSc, Environmental Science, Western Washington University.