Brian Berg has extensive experience with storage devices and interfaces, e.g., Flash Memory, Solid State Disks (SSDs), Disk, Tape, CD, CD-ROM, DVD, WORM, RAID and Disk Arrays, as well as USB, SCSI, Fibre Channel, IDE/ATA/ATAPI, Storage Area Networks (SAN) and Optical Storage devices. He maintains a website covering storage topics, and has experience as a conference chair, session chair and speaker at nearly 50 conferences.
Brian is an active computer consultant in product development, and has provided computer litigation support in over 50 engagements involving patents, trade secrets, copyright infringement, source code analysis, object code disassembly, benchmarking, computer media duplication and file system analysis. He has been deposed and has provided courtroom testimony at trial.
Background
Q: Please list your professional accreditations, degrees, licenses, and certificates granted:A: B.S. Mathematics; Computer Science/Electrical Engineering graduate work at Stanford University.
Q: Please list your affiliations or memberships in any professional and/or industry organizations:
A: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Computer History Museum, Flash Memory Summit (FMS) Conference Advisory Board, Forensic Expert Witness Association (FEWA), International Disk Drive Equipment and Materials Association (IDEMA), Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), IEEE Consultants' Network of Silicon Valley (IEEE-CNSV), Professional and Technical Consultants Association (PATCA), Software Development Forum (SDF), Storage Networking Industry Association (SNIA), Storage Visions (SV) Conference Advisory Board, The Tech Museum of Innovation
Q: Please list any teaching or speaking experience you have had, including subject matter:
A: Flash Memory, USB, Storage Area Networks, SCSI.
Q: Have any of your accreditations ever been investigated, suspended or removed? (if yes, explain)
A: No.
Q: On how many occasions have you been retained as an expert?
A: Over 50 times.
Q: For what area(s) of expertise have you been retained as an expert?
A: Computer storage, flash memory, USB, optical storage, DVD.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the plaintiff?
A: Roughly 50%.
Q: In what percentage of your cases were you retained by the defendant?
A: Roughly 50%.
Q: On how many occasions have you had your deposition taken?
A: Approximately 10.
Q: When was the last time you had your deposition taken?
A: March 2008.
Q: On how many occasions have you been qualified by a court to give expert testimony?
A: 3 times.
Q: On how many occasions have you testified as an expert in court or before an arbitrator?
A: 3 times.
Q: For how many years have you worked with the legal industry as an expert?
A: 14 years.
Q: What services do you offer? (E.g.: consulting, testing, reports, site inspections etc.)
A: Consulting, computer product investigation, source code analysis, patent analysis, claim chart creation, prior art searches, forensic disk analysis.
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