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Brian Berg has extensive experience with storage devices and interfaces, including Flash Memory, Disk Drives, RAID/Disk Arrays, Optical Storage (CD, CD-ROM, DVD, WORM, Magneto-Optical), Tape, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and the Content Scramble System (CSS), and USB, SCSI, iSCSI, SAS, Fibre Channel and IDE/ATA/ATAPI. He has written device drivers, software and firmware under Windows/DOS, UNIX (including Sun and Silicon Graphics) and embedded real-time operating systems (RTOSs). Mr. Berg has been a software developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and writer. He has participated in over 50 conferences as speaker, session chair and conference chair. He is experienced with programming languages including C, C++ and assembly.
Mr. Berg has also been an expert witness and expert consultant in over 50 engagements involving patent, trade secret, copyright, class action and contractual disputes. These cases have drawn on Mr. Berg's twenty years of experience in the storage industry and his thirty-one years of experience as a computer engineer, and have involved technology in the storage, IC CAD, software and hardware industries. He has written expert reports, been deposed, and has provided courtroom testimony at trial. These engagements have involved source code analysis, source code comparison, object code disassembly, benchmarking, and computer media duplication, as well as forensic analysis on data storage devices and file systems using tools including EnCase.
Mr. Berg has been an independent consultant for over 28 years, and a CNSV member since 1998. He has spoken on being successful as a consultant at CNSV Consultant Business Seminar (CBS) events in 1998, 1999, 2000 and 2005 on topics including the effective use of a website for marketing your consulting business.
Brian was CNSV Chair in 2006 and 2007, a CNSV At-Large Director in 2004 and served on the Marketing Committee in 2004. He is an IEEE Senior Member.