Michael W. Bruns
Principal Engineer
Michael Bruns is a hardware and software design engineer at the
Beaverton Design Center for the Grass Valley Group, working on
development for the company's Profile® XP Media
Server.
Bruns was responsible for the first MPEG decoder based on standard
silicon at Tektronix in 1995, prior to the transition from Tektronix's
Video and Networking Division to the Grass Valley Group, and has followed
developments across three product lines up to the present. Before joining
the media server development team, Bruns led the architecture and
hardware design of a high-definition serial video to OC-48 SONET/ATM
interface.
Previously, Bruns studied field and wave electrodynamics and
implemented a number of interconnect designs for gigahertz bandwidth
signals in cryogenic environments for superconductor electronics
applications.
Bruns is the author of four refereed technical papers and one patent.
He's a member of SMPTE and participates in the study group on digital
cinema.
Bruns holds a Master's degree in electrical engineering from the
University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. from Northwestern
University.
Bruns is currently responsible for the high level design of the MPEG
implementations in the Profile media server product lines for the Grass
Valley Group.
