Dr. Short has been the Chief Scientist for VirnetX since May 2007 and in June 2010 became VirnetX’s Chief Technical Officer as well.From February 2000 to April 2007, Dr. Short was Assistant Vice President and Division Manager at Science Applications International Corporation, or SAIC.From 1994 to February 2000, he also held various other positions at SAIC.Prior to SAIC, he worked at ARCO Power Technologies, Inc. (Atlantic Richfield Petroleum), Sperry Corporate Technology Center and Sperry Research Center.Dr. Short is named as a co-inventor on substantially all of the patents in the VirnetX patent portfolio.He has a Ph.D in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University along with a M.S. in Mathematics and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech.