Phil Mellinger is the Chief Scientist at Trusted Knight Corporation, focusing on the reverse engineering and defeating of computer crime ware. Mellinger has worked in high-tech security for 30 years. He has served as the chief information security officer at First Data Corporation, as a systems analyst at the National Security Agency, as an Air Force Technical Special Agent (bugging/debugging), as NATO’s chief crypto engineer, and headed Federal efforts in digital signatures. Mellinger holds a number of patents and has graduate degrees in computer science from Johns Hopkins and George Washington University.