Michael Harney
For more than twenty-three years Michael Harney has provided
engineering and management expertise at Scientific Atlanta as
the company has grown to one of the premier providers of analog
and digital set-top equipment to cable systems around the world.
Currently Harney is responsible for all facets of the company’s
rollout of its digital systems including the Explorer® 2200,
3200, 3150, 3250HD, 4200, 4200HD, 4200 DVB and 8000 and
Webstar™ modem and Webstar Voice over IP Products.
Following three years at IBM in senior staff engineering
positions, Harney joined Scientific Atlanta in 1980. After
serving in a variety of engineering positions through the 1980s,
he was named vice president, subscriber engineering in 1990 and
moved to vice president, broadband engineering in 1994. In
December 1995, he became vice president and general manager of
digital video systems at Scientific Atlanta, and with this
position came the opportunity to lead the launch of
Scientific Atlanta’s digital systems worldwide. In February
2002, he was named Sr. Vice President and President of
Subscriber Networks, the business that develops and markets the
company’s interactive digital set-tops, DOCIS modems, digital
headend systems, voice over IP and digital network central
systems.
Harney holds twelve patents for a variety of interdiction,
subscriber terminal, and descrambling technologies. A BSEE
graduate of the University of California – Berkeley, he also
holds a MSEE degree from Syracuse University and an MBA from
Emory University in Atlanta. He is a member of the Cable
Telecommunications Engineers, IEEE. and a member of the Board of
Directors for Metropolitan Atlanta Chapter, American Red Cross.