Shawn Prestridge has served as Senior Field Application Engineer at IAR Systems since 2008 and became the US FAE Team Leader in 2019; he has been in the software industry since 1993. Before joining IAR Systems he worked as Embedded Hardware/Software Engineer and with Embedded Development. Shawn holds a BS in Electrical Engineering, a BS in Mathematics, an MS in Electrical Engineering, an MS in Software Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering specializing in Quantum Cryptography, all with Southern Methodist University in Dallas.