For several years, he managed the development and delivery of security for several Novell releases of network software products including an integral PKI, an international crypto API, and an authentication service with exposed SSL capability.
Schell attended Montana State University (MSU), where he graduated from the ROTC program with a degree in electrical engineering.
[2] As a skilled engineer working for the Air Force, Schell was constantly pressured during these years to return to graduate school.
[3] He wrote one of the earliest Multics security dissertations, "Dynamic Reconfiguration in a Modular Computer System."
Schell originated several security design and evaluation techniques and holds patents in cryptography and authentication.