David Kiefer is a semi-retired Maintenance Engineer with a desire to be innovative. He grew up in a farming community in Northern Ohio. His interests began with farm machinery, which led to a career in technology. The desire to be innovative with a technology education led him to conceive the idea of Dimensional Weight.

This idea of Dimensional Weight was formulated in his life but needed a user of the process. A job with a major innovative package handling company led to the implementation of the process for that company, where he coined the process Dimensional Weight