W. David Schwaderer is the ShapeShift® Ciphers CEO. He has 12 issued and pending patents owned by ShapeShift Ciphers.. David has authored dozens of industry articles and eleven technical books that explain complex technology in approachable ways. He has developed six commercial software programs in several different languages for multiple machine architectures and delivered Usenix™ seminars on Erasure Coding, a subject he has presented several times at leading Silicon Valley conferences and enterprises. His October 2007 MIT joint Sloan School of Management and Department of Electrical Engineering conference lecture was selected best in conference. He is the former IEEE Northern Nevada Section Chair and the Mensa America Northern Nevada First Vice Chair. David has a MS in Applied Mathematics from the California Institute of Technology and an MBA from the University of Southern California.