Michael Izquierdo began his career with IBM in Boca Raton in 1982 where he spent 6 years in manufacturing engineering developing controllers for automated test stations for the Datamaster System/23 product, the predecessor to the IBM PC. He transferred to the Systems Product Division in 1988, which later became the Network Hardware Division where he spent 9 years in ASIC design.

Mike received his Master's Degree from Florida State University in 1987, and his Ph.D. from NC State University in 1998 where the focus of his research was on the statistical modeling and network transport of compressed video sources. He left IBM to work for Silicon Access Networks to develop network communications ASICs and FPGA interface logic. He began his career in video streaming in 1997 with Osprey Video, where he was the lead hardware developer of the Osprey 500 AV and the Osprey 2000 MPEG-2 capture cards.

In 2007, Mike began his career with Extron Electronics, a leader in the AV industry, where he formed a team of hardware and software engineers to develop video streaming products for the AV industry, a first for Extron. These products include streaming media encoders, decoders, recorders, and AV to USB bridges. His team also developed the first USB switches for Extron.

Mike is currently Director of Electrical Engineering at Extron where he created the Picture Quality Analysis Lab to benchmark hardware and software video codecs using objective video quality metrics and subjective quality models. His team developed a C/C++ software model of a wavelet-based codec where he was an active developer. He offers consultation and guidance to product development and the executive team on the video codec industry and technology.