Thomas D. Lovett leads the architecture and technical direction of the company's server hardware. As a Founder of Fabric7, Mr. Lovett has led the server hardware development team at the company's development center in Portland, Oregon. Much of Mr. Lovett's 25-year career in the architecture and design of high-performance commercial computer systems was at Sequent Computer Systems, which he joined as one of its first employees. As chief architect for Sequent NUMA-Q series systems, he helped build some of the world's fastest computers for transaction processing and helped grow Sequent to an $800M company. When IBM acquired Sequent in 1999, Mr. Lovett joined the company as a Distinguished Engineer where he led the architectural development of IBM's 64-bit xSeries servers. He began his career in the Microprocessor Development Group at Bell Labs. Mr. Lovett holds 12 patents in various areas of cache protocols and server design. He received his Masters degree in Electrical Engineering at the University of Illinois and his Bachelors degree in the same discipline at the University of Delaware. |