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.

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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.

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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

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