Michael Craner Email & Phone Number

Chester Springs, Pa

MediaComm Innovations provides a full range of patent protection, licensing, technical expert, and product engineering services to a variety of clients. Engineering services include:· Program/Project/Product Management, New Product Development, Team Development· Systems Engineering and System/Product Specification/Features/Roadmaps· Reverse Engineering, Root-Cause Analysis, Technical Forensics,· New Product Testing, Assessment, and Performance EvaluationIntellectual property services include:· Strategic Inventing and Portfolio Enhancement· Infringement Analysis & Expert Support· Technology and Patent Licensing· Patent Preparation and Prosecution· Prior Art Research· Portfolio Valuation· Engineering Innovation Training

Chester Spring, Pennsylvania

The Renew America Roadtrip™ began with “America’s first green volunteer charity drive coast-to-coast in a production all-electric sportscar” in the summer of 2009 and continues as an on-going series of media events designed to help raise awareness of renewable, sustainable, and eco-friendly (RSE) initiatives and raise money for green charities. Renew America Energy works to provide investment, education and consulting services to entities interested in adopting green technologies such as solar, wind, geothermal, batteries, and electric / fleet transport; and we act as a trusted liaison between potential adopters and best-in-class providers / installers.

Radnor, Pa

Guideworks is a joint venture of Comcast and Gemstar-TV Guide. • Patent portfolio development/management (75% of role) • Systems analysis, engineering, & requirements setting for next-generation navigator (25% of role) • Capture of concepts, lead brainstorming, manage outside counsel in application development, review, prosecution, process management (77 patents filed in 4 years, inventor/contributor on 50%) • Key contributor on various system design efforts • Built early OCAP integration organization.

Philadelphia, Pa, Usa

• Patent preparation/prosecution for various multinational telecom clients including Lucent (now Nokia), Agere, HBO, Lattice, Freescale, and ATI (now part of Broadcom). Technologies include: CATV, DWDM optical, SDARS OFDM, VoIP, 3G wireless, Wi-Fi, ATM, 3D GUI, SDV, streaming media • Over 60 applications filed / prosecuted • Built Wireless/VOIP/cable modem startup company – designed and installed voice and data solutions allowing small cafés to replace POTS technology with voice-over-IP, payment and Wifi systems powered by DOCSIS/broadband cable modem

Horsham, Pa Usa

Managed all licensing in/out for BCS as well as patent portfolio management (~500 issued patents). Technical advisement to IP law, standards leaders, and business development groups. Technical due diligence on acquisitions, structuring IP as an equity component, and analyzing business models. Position reported to CTO and VP Intellectual Property Law.• Negotiated major RTOS and security licenses for VoIP and MPEG-2 Satellite/CATV products saving $100M NPV in royalties. Led technical support on infringement defense in MPEG-2 system litigation.• Led infringement analysis for video compression technology yielding $20M NPV savings in reduced royalties.

Horsham, Pa Usa

* Engineering Program Manager / Integrator- Led multi-vendor integration of joint AT&T, Microsoft, Sun, Sony, Excite@Home advanced set-top system for broadband operators including Comcast, Charter & Cox* Product Manager – HDTV Consumer Products - Developed business case, defined product line, and managed engineering activities for a consumer-retail High-definition digital television set-top appliance. * Worldwide Digital Cable Systems Integration Manager - Established and managed 30-person 24x7 on-call team of systems engineers, integrators, programmers, and technicians in rollout of digital CATV systems. - Led team that launched first U.S. end-to-end consumer digital cable system (GTE Florida).* Senior Manager - Network Controller Development - Formed and directed 15-person team to develop cable upstream manager (NC) for Bell Atlantic Video Dialtone initiative.

King Of Prussia, Pa Usa

Coordinated activities of engineering groups in U.S.A., Germany, and Switzerland comprising new PC Multimedia Products division. Performed new product definition, team development, project and staff management for Commodore Amiga accelerator, video time-base-corrector (TBC), SCSI accelerator, and video effects processor. Performed PCI interface design using Flex FPGA for DSP3210 multiprocessor based digital audio workstation.• Introduced Merging Technology (Swiss subsidiary) to venture capital opportunity in US leading to purchase. • Directed development of industry’s first consumer PCMCIA-format full-function soundcard on WinTel laptop.

Laurel, Md Usa

- Performed all aspects of start-up business and engineering activities including venture capital acquisition, trade-show presentations (Comdex, CeBit), P & L management, product line marketing, B & P. - Initiated and coordinated projects for successful concept-to-volume on PC Multimedia/DSP card integrating fax/modem/tam/audio/image. - Also performed all aspects of hardware and driver-level software development and debug including modem DAA and data pump as well as high-speed DRAM and VESA-local bus interfaces and audio subsystem design.• Implemented industry’s first 386/486 and VESA local-bus fax/modem/tam DSP co-processor on WinTel PC.• Co-founded and secured initial seed and $1M first-round investment funding for multimedia/DSP startup.• Led task team on multi-company JV between AT&T, MediaStar, IPC, & MediaChips for WinTel PCI card

Greenbelt, Md Usa

* Project Engineer – Airborne Doppler Weather Radar Signal Processor - Performed B&P, budget management, design, implementation, integration, and programming of complete data acquisition, signal processing and data storage subsystem for an airborne, X-band, weather radar for NASA. • Developed and negotiated commercialization of DoD multiprocessor for application to NASA airborne radar.• Complex FPGA/PLD-based board design, C/OS-9 data system control and DSP processing coding, * Principle Investigator – Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) - Coordinated experts, performed design, analysis and costing. Generated PI and PII reports and PII B&P. ONR/NASA – Wideband mono-pulse sonar array, Airborne polarization imager, parallel pn-code histogrammer.

Middle River, Md Usa

Performed matrix and FFT radar/sonar algorithm analysis and parallel mapping. Designed and implemented novel parallel processor supporting mapping. Presented results to NAVY IRAD directors, supported B&P and marketing. C programming in VRTX RTOS and UNIX environment, FPGA/PLD design, schematic capture, debug.

Post-Graduate, Signal Processing

Activities and Societies: Coursework directed towards PhD in electrical engineeringDistributed Systems Signal Processing

Ce, Multiprocessors & Networks

Activities and Societies: Post-graduate coursework for continuing educationMultiprocessors and Networking

Msee, Electronics And Systems, 3.8

Activities and Societies: Tau Beta Pi, IEEE, LESElectrical and Computer Engineering

Diploma, With Regents Scholarship

Activities and Societies: Rock Band, Football, Track, Wrestling