If you're serious about a Proof-of-Work switch I would humbly point you to what Nexus (http://nexusearth.com/features.html) is doing with ASIC and quantum computer resistant Pure SHA-3 (Using Skein-1024 and Keccak-1600) CPU pool/GPU solo mining.

Here's their thread: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=657601.0