Computer Storage Consultant

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). He has been a software developer, project lead, industry analyst, seminar leader, technical marketer and writer, and 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 PATCA member since 1980. He has spoken at a number of PATCA seminars and evening meetings on topics including the effective use of a website for marketing one's consulting business.

B.S. Math; CS/EE graduate work at Stanford