Gary Nutt

Current

• Professor at University of Colorado
• Consultant & Legal Expert at my own practice

Past

• Senior Scientist at Inktomi Corporation
• Vice President, Engineering at Bookface.com
• Vice President, Colorado Tech Office at Interactive Systems Corporation

• Engineering Director at NBI, Inc.
• Sr. Member of Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories
• Member of Research Staff at Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
• Assistant Professor at University of Colorado

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Education

• University of Washington
• Boise State University

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Industry

Computer Software

Gary Nutt’s Summary

Experience: Professor (over 25 years), legal expert (over 12 years overlapping my time as a professor), and entrepreneur and executive (6 years). Practiced technology development, research and education; management; and operating in established business and entrepreneurial environments. Worked in academia and industry on hardware, network, kernel, system software, middleware, and application domains.

Gary Nutt’s Specialties:

Specialist in operating systems and software, distributed systems, soft real-time systems (including digital CATV technology), wireless and mobile computing, internet content delivery, collaboration technology, and intellectual property. Legal expert in software and hardware, ranging from intellectual property to computer forensics.

Gary Nutt’s Experience

• Professor

  University of Colorado

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  November 1986 — Present (23 years 1 month)

  Teaching and research in distributed and network systems, operating systems, real-time systems, collaboration technology, multimedia, visual programming, and computer science curriculum development. Chair of the Department of Computer Science (1995-97); Founder and Director of the Center for Software Systems Science (1988-94); Co-founder and Director of the Colorado Open Systems Consortium (1992-93).

• Consultant & Legal Expert

  my own practice

  (Computer Software industry)

  January 1976 — Present (33 years 11 months)

  Legal Expert, Special Master, and court-appointed expert since 1995. Considerable early work on computer forensics, prior to the introduction of commercial tools to address the area. Intellectual property and copyright expert Have drafted patent specifications relating to web caching, online text reading, and others.
  
  Technical Consultant: Software centered, ranging across operating systems internals, middleware machinery, OO design and technology, collaboration software, workflow, and web applications.
  
  Executive Level: Corporate strategy, product planning and strategy, infusing new technology, teaching and reviewing technology, building organizations, advisory board, and engineering management

• Senior Scientist

  Inktomi Corporation

  (Public Company; Computer Software industry)

  September 2000 — April 2001 (8 months)

  [IHeld this position while on leave from the University of Colorado.] Helped create the corporate patent portfolio, including identifying patentable work, writing invention disclosures, and working with corporate and outside counsel.

• Vice President, Engineering

  Bookface.com

  (Computer Networking industry)

  March 2000 — August 2000 (6 months)

  [Held this position while on leave from the University of Colorado.] Scalable infrastructure, security and digital rights management for text-based content distribution. Engineering management, recruiting, staffing, external technology interactions (patents, security audit, software acquisition, co-location facility, technical advisory board), wrote detailed patent specification, and general executive duties.

• Vice President, Colorado Tech Office

  Interactive Systems Corporation

  (Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

  March 1984 — November 1986 (2 years 9 months)

  Corporate officer. Established and managed a successful cost center responsible for operating system, network and application software products. Helped formulate the business and marketing plans for the network and application products.

• Engineering Director

  NBI, Inc.

  (Public Company; NBII; Computer Software industry)

  April 1981 — March 1984 (3 years )

  Built and managed an organization of 85 hardware and software engineers. Responsible for all hardware and software development for a product line of workstations and servers.

• Sr. Member of Technical Staff

  Bell Laboratories

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  June 1980 — April 1981 (11 months)

  Responsible for technical assessment and direction of data communications services for office information systems in PBX environments. Member of a corporate task force studying ISDN services.

• Member of Research Staff

  Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)

  (Public Company; XRX; Information Technology and Services industry)

  July 1978 — June 1980 (2 years )

  Studied application of computers and networks to office information systems.

• Assistant Professor

  University of Colorado

  (Educational Institution; Higher Education industry)

  August 1972 — July 1978 (6 years )

  Faculty position in the Department of Computer Science. Research and teaching in hardware and software systems, specializing in modeling and performance.

Gary Nutt’s Education

• University of Washington

  Ph.D. , Computer Science , 1969 — 1972

• Boise State University

  B.A. , Mathematics , 1962 — 1967

Additional Information

Gary Nutt’s Interests:

Entrepreneurial enterprises, education, and computer software/systems/networks. My side interest is lutherie.

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