Todd Franklin is President and founder of Comm-Engines which was formed in 2001.  Starting with a BSEE for the Georgia Institute of Technology, he has spent the last 22 years involved with the design, development and manufacturing of various wireless products.  He has worked within large corporations like Rockwell/Collins, Motorola and Sensormatic.  He has also worked within numerous small and start-up corporations.  This experience has given him a unique understanding of marketing, product development and manufacturing.  He has seen, first hand, what is successful and what is not when marketing against large corporations and how to manufacture product without owning a factory.

Todd has design products for the military community which has stringent requirements for performance, durability and reliability.  He has also designed products for the high volume commercial market which is very sensitive to cost, manufacturing production yields and performance.

Todd has significant management and business experience.  For 6 years, he managed his own company in south Florida.  With his partner, they provided complete wireless design services to start-up companies.  Clients would bring ideas and they would deliver hardware which performed to the clients requirements.  He has also managed teams of engineers as large as 30 people.  Directing and coordinating the activities of each person to meet the scheduling and cost needs of multiple design and development projects performed in parallel.

Taking the Comm-Engines products from idea to manufacturing and delivery to customer is what he has done for 22 years. 

Paul Kelley is Chief Digital Engineer at Interoperable Technologies LLC. He is responsible for all aspects of baseband hardware and software development in the company. With his broad background and varied skill set, he plays a major role in setting the company’s technical direction and in defining the hardware and software platforms. He has more than 20 years of engineering experience developing consumer electronics.

Paul has been employed by Interoperable Technologies since April 2003. Prior to joining Interoperable Technologies, he was employed by Motorola Inc. where he was principal ASIC designer. Successful projects at Motorola include the Flexchip IC for paging applications and the basedband IC for the i.250 and the i.300 mobile phone platforms.

Prior to that Paul was Director of Product Development at Clariti Telecommunications, a wireless startup that ran for three years in the late 1990’s. In that role he was responsible for hardware and software development in a wireless voicemail player that used the FM SCA spectrum.

In addition, Paul was employed by Rodime Inc. where he worked on high-performance small form-factor disk drives. He helped move the company from analog servo control to DSP-based digital servo control.

Paul received his BSEE from the University of Maine at Orono in 1986, where he also studied and earned advanced degrees in Geology and Geophysics. In the mid-1990’s he obtained his maters degree in electrical engineering fromFlorida Atlantic University with a concentration in digital signal processing. Paul is the holder of nine U.S. patents.

Todd Franklin, President

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