Shawn Prestridge

Shawn Prestridge, US FAE Manager, has served as IAR System’s Senior Field Applications Engineer since 2008 and as the US FAE Manager since 2018. Shawn has worked in the software industry since 1993 and prior to joining IAR Systems he held the position of Embedded Hardware/Software Engineer with Texas Instruments as well as doing Embedded Development as the owner of Ministry of Software. Shawn’s research interests are primarily focused in Cryptology and he specializes in Large Number Theory, Quantum Cryptography, Elliptic Curve Cryptography, Number Field Sieve Computing and Communication Encryption. Shawn’s degree work includes 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.