Summary
Michael Teener is a veteran network and connectivity architect with decades of experience designing time-sensitive, high-performance interconnection technologies and shaping the standards that govern them. He led the architecture of Apple’s FireWire, co-founded a FireWire company acquired by Apple, and later drove TSN work at Broadcom and in IEEE 802.1, earning IEEE standards honors including a Lifetime Achievement Award. Michael combines deep system-level hardware and real-time software expertise—dating back to radar/sonar and early digital PBX designs—with prolific standards leadership and over 70 related patents. Now consulting through Plumblinks, he focuses on translating rigorous standards and protocol design into practical, low-cost network implementations. Based in California, he pairs formal academic training from Caltech and UCLA with a rare blend of inventor-level detail and standards-era diplomacy.
12 years of coding experience
44 years of employment as a software developer
Out of there, Out of there at Junction City High School
BS, BS at California Institute of Technology
University of California, Los Angeles
c, fortran, verilog, bash, go, javascript