Dr. Edwin A. Hernandez

Technology Leader, Startup Expert, Expert Witness, Tech Investor, Tech Strategy, Media Professional & Inventor.
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Featured in:
  • 17+5 US & European patents issued
  • 50+ IP cases, incl. 15+ IPRs
  • $300M+ in licenses & settlements
  • 80+ startups incubated at EGLAVATOR
  • Incubated PointsKash ( $100M raised)
  • Startup Incubator Expert
  • Ex-Motorola
  • Ex-Microsoft
  • Fulbright Scholar
  • IEEE Member
  • FAU Industry Advisory Board
  • TECHEDTV Podcast host
  • Inventor Modern Handoff
  • Honduras Global Co-Founder
  • Mobility Workx Co-Founder
  • Technical and Damages Expert

Introduction

Serial entrepreneur, inventor, technology leader

Dr. Edwin Hernandez is a serial entrepreneur, inventor, and technology leader — the founder of EGLA CORP, a technology company that develops its own technologies and, intellectual property, including MEVIA, MEVIA AI, MEVIA OS, Demolizer, FETTLE AI, PTAB Experts, and others. EGLA serves as a platform where other innovators build ventures at the EGLAVATOR, his technology incubator and accelerator in Coral Springs, FL. The EGLAVATOR assists and invests in early-stage technology companies, offering funding advice, go-to-market strategy, intellectual property guidance, and hands-on execution support.

As a technology leader, Dr. Hernandez has worked with engineering and business teams since his days at Motorola and Microsoft. Through his intellectual property portfolio, he and his team at Mobility Works, have reached licensing agreements with wireless patents covering Motorola, Google, Apple, T-Mobile, Verizon Wireless, DISH Wireless, Samsung, Nokia, Ericsson, Microsoft, Comcast, and other major technology companies.

Dr. Edwin is an expert in technology, licensing, and venture funding with extensive experience in wireless communications, AI, cloud computing, IoT, electronic devices, and advanced software platforms — a hands-on coder who builds prototypes for many of the products developed at his incubator and is well versed in code reviews and hardware/software audits.

Dr. Hernandez earned a B.S. in Electronics Engineering from the Costa Rica Institute of Technology, and an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from the University of Florida. He is a named inventor on 17 issued U.S. patents and 5 European patents. He has provided technical expert witness services in 50+ intellectual property cases, including 15+ inter partes reviews (IPRs), and four testimonies at trial, Daubert hearings, and numerous depositions. He was a Fulbright Scholar and has twice served as a judge for the Mobile World Congress. He is a Microsoft and Motorola alumnus, a member of the Industry Advisory Board (IAB) at Florida Atlantic University, and producer of his own technology podcast, TECHEDTV.

Dr. Hernandez has testified as an expert witness in several high-value matters, including for Blue Radios at trial (a $24.8M award, per Nasdaq), for the Mojo Mobility legal team on wireless-charging patents (a $192M award, per Reuters), for the TOT Power Control team on power-control patents (a $110M award, per Reuters), and for Intellectual Ventures against LG in a multi-million-dollar licensing dispute.

Edwin's Blog

GlusterFS install from Source

Compilation from Source If you wish to install glusterrfs in a fresh out of the box Ubuntu 12.04 machine. Download first the glusterfs3.3.1 Download Source Code You may also need sudo apt-get install flex sudo apt-get install bison sudo apt-get install openssl sudo apt-get install libssl-dev An error like this may occur after you run autoreconf -f or ./configure    

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Arduino Install fails on MacOS 10.7.5

The Arduino UNO is not functional and in fact when you have 10.7.5 an error such as: “Serial Port Already in Use” /dev/tty-ZCASDFASF in my case: /dev/tty-EdwinHernandez-1  is already in use may prompt. However, this is not what is going on. The USB on the Arduino from OSEPP UNO R3 PLUS is not listed in the VID/PID of the FTDI Driver

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University of Florida Research Foundation, Rapid Mobile Technologies Inc vs Motorola Mobility

A patent infringement lawsuit has been filed in FL on behalf of my company Rapid Mobile Technologies, Inc, and can be reviewed here. University of Florida Research Foundation et. al. v. Motorola Mobility  [fblike] Official Complaint for Patent Infringement in Civil Action No. 0:13-cv-61120-XXXX: University of Florida Research Foundation, Inc. et. al. v. Motorola Mobility LLC. Filed in U.S. District

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Happy Mother’s Day to my mother, my sister, and all women in the US/Honduras/Latin America

 HAPPY MOTHER’ S DAY TO MY MOTHER!!! [fblike] Happy Mother’s day to my mother, who has done everything for me and my family. A very smart woman with a great heart, great Christian values, supportive, strict, she doesn’t go around the bushes to tell you the way things are. She is been a role model for me and my family.

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Gluster FS Upgrade

Gluster FS has had several upgrades and updates, recently v. 3.3 is out. I recommend if you have Ubuntu LUCID 10.04 to: add-apt-repository ppa:semiosis/upstarted-glusterfs-3.3 sudo apt-get update sudp apt-get install glusterd Now /etc/gluster/glusterd.vol is the default file to use. If you have Precise or other Ubuntu, you may  do: add-apt-repository ppa:semiosis/ubuntu-glusterfs-3.3 If you want to check in the cache what you

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HulaSync

  This weekend was, another weekend as usual, full of work, but also I think somewhat fun as well. I helped organizing with “Startup Weekend” Boca Raton, and as a part of the excitement I decided to create a new thing and teamed up with Lucie Allaire and Henry Incer, who are part of the “HulaDrive” as well.  Personally, I

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Miami Herald

A few days back, I was featured in one of the business articles in the “Miami Herald.” The article was covering all new startups in South Florida, from Technology Incubators, to office spaces. A great plethora of data in over 4 articles. Andrea Simon and myself were pictured as part of “EGLA COMMUNICATIONS” team.

Small Get Together of Two Honduras Global Partners

Pedro Cerrato (link) and myself (link), founding members of “Honduras Global” met in Boca Raton, at EGLA COMMUNICATIONS office. We discussed several topics and had a friendly exchange of ideas. We also had a brief conference call with Nora Seddig where we spoke about Wilinknu projects and when could we go again to Honduras. Pedro is going down there on Tuesday

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HULA Drive

I’ve been working on technical and business details of the HULA Drive Launch this coming October. There are a lot of details to take care of, on top of the work dedicated to Mediamplify and its customers. The team composed of Henry Incer, Lucie Allaire will be featured in a video will be submitting to Kickstarter.com The rest of the

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Summary of Events – September

In summary, this month of september has been quite exciting. For starters, we had our open house at the incubator at 3651 FAU Blvd Suite 400, Boca Raton, FL, 33431. Several people came and EGLA’s Mediamplify was powering the incubator’s TV station, Likewise, we recorded a video for Kickstarter.com and expect to formalize our submission shortly,   To finalize events,

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Honduras is Great mentions me :)

Usually I don’t like people tagging me in photos or articles on Facebook, but today I got tagged by a friend in an article published by a Facebook page called “Honduraas is Great,” with a membership of over 3000+ Hondurans/friends, I was featured for what I have done thus far which I think has been “good”  but to my standards

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