Chuck Berg Email & Phone Number

Las Vegas, Nv, Us

Providing professional, technical, management, and business skills to entrepreneurs across the country. Current projects include:Co-Founder and CTO for Your Fare Inc. (see above)Software Developer for a company building large format cutting/finishing systems for the printing industry.Past projects include:Acting VP of Software Development for startup company Ironwood Medical Information Technology - currently in "stealth" mode.Acting VP of Software Development for startup company TrinityIDC, building their vision of "The Intelligent Data Cloud" with the latest Microsoft technologies.Presentations for the UNLV International Gaming Institute and Gaming Technology Summit on the future of technology in the gaming industry.Consulting with investment fund Alchemy P4 - advising them on technology investments, and advising the teams they invest in to help ensure their success. Lead developer for HG Traders LLC building an online real-time trading application.Acting VP of Software Development for Sightline Payments LLC, developing "Loyalty Card Plus" - an electronic payment system based on a pre-paid Discover card, tied to a casino player loyalty program. Expert Witness consulting for multiple gaming patent disputes.Business and technology consulting for startup company CampusLinkU.com - still in "stealth" mode.

Austin, Texas, Us

My role is to assure the successful execution of the company’s business mission through the development and deployment of the company’s technology and service products.

Responsible for the architecture and leading the development of several Line-of-Business applications for the largest “locals” casino operations company in Las Vegas, using the latest Microsoft technologies including WF 4, MSMQ, WPF/Silverlight, and WCF. Managed several different project teams, up to 4 at one time, using Agile methodologies, supported by TFS 2010. Played a lead role in designing the current generation of SOA services, and created and led the department Standards and Practices team.Specifically, I was the architect, project lead, and lead developer for the second-generation of Sports Connection — the exciting, convenient, and legal way to place sports wagers by telephone, personal computer or mobile phone from any jurisdiction in the country that allows it. In addition to completely rewriting the web application, we also added a brand new web service interface along with new iPhone and Android smart phone applications. I managed all of the development efforts including two outsourced teams for the web and smart phone development, and the internal team that developed the web service interface.I was also the architect, project lead, and lead developer for a Rules Engine, based on Windows Workflow, that allows the Marketing Department to create ad-hoc reward programs in a matter of minutes, that respond in real-time to events occurring on the casino floor.

Responsible for creating two new programs to meet the needs of the Gaming Standards Association (GSA), casino operators, gaming manufacturers, and other industry stakeholders. The first, a Continuing Education program in Standards Training and Certification in the William F Harrah College of Hotel Management - International Gaming Institute Second, an Undergraduate and Graduate degree program in Casino Gaming Technology in the Howard R Hughes College of Engineering - School of Informatics.Implemented a “teaching version” of the GSA protocols using XML, XML Schema, WSDL, .NET 3.0, WCF, and C#. Due to the state budget crisis, funding for these programs was cancelled and my position terminated.

Responsible for interfacing a high-performance search and analysis facility to a variety of electronic messaging systems (via POP3, IMAP, and SMTP protocols, and via proprietary MAPI and NSF import libraries), and to identity databases via LDAP and proprietary HR and CRM interfaces. The application is written primarily in C#, with some managed and unmanaged C/C++, on the Microsoft .NET platform using XML/Web Services for inter-processor communication.The company was purchased by Seagate, and is now the E-Discovery Business Unit of their i365 subsidiary.

Contracted with the Gaming Standards Association (GSA – formerly GAMMA) to “fast track” the development of communication standards for the casino industry. Project evolved into the GSA protocols of today.Continued support of various gaming industry clients in business and technology strategy.

As a volunteer member of the Board of Directors (1/99-9/01), assisted with strategic planning and financial oversight of a 2,500 member non-profit organization hosting 20-30 events every month. As Executive Council President (4/98-4/00), directed the 14-person Executive Council coordinating the efforts of approximately 60 volunteers, and assisted on the merger with Center for Software Development. As Windows SIG Chair (2/98-present), plan monthly meetings of interest to Windows developer community.

Campbell, Ca, Us

Managed the US & UK engineering team developing MailSite® e-mail server, Express/Pocket web-mail clients, and Team groupware solution on Windows NT/2000/XP platforms, as well as a joint development project with Compaq porting the MailSite message store and user database to the Non-Stop platform. Released 3 major new versions of the MailSite product, and brought virus and spam filtering, dictionary harvest prevention, web-based calendaring, and many other new features to the market; and launched MailSite NS – the industry’s first complete standards-based, continuously available email solution for the NonStop platform, and MailSite Team – an Outlook plug-in providing shared calendars, contacts, and public folders on an IMAP email platform. Also managed the corporate computing infrastructure across offices in US, Canada, England, and Scotland.

At a company that combined Silicon Valley technology with Hollywood production skills to develop revolutionary one-of-a-kind wagering attractions for the casino industry, led an engineering team of 10 software, math, hardware, and packaging developers, and coordinated with producers, art directors, and artists, responsible for creating 8 new games, 3 major platform releases, and executing “Family Feud Slots,” all within 14 months. A major part of this responsibility was creating and maintaining the tools and processes that allowed art directors, graphic designers, audio and video producers, and artists to create the world-class games that set a new standard for gaming attractions. Managed a QA staff of 3, and an IS/IT staff of 4. Served as chair of the Gaming Manufacturer’s Association (GAMMA) committee standardizing communication on the casino floor. Company acquired by IGT – the largest manufacturer in the gaming industry.

Built a software development organization specializing in core technology, application specific systems software, and device drivers for the Windows™ platform. Maintained technical leadership and provided "hands-on" development effort on 75 different Windows products, using a range of Microsoft technologies, for 35 different clients. Projects included: * WDM kernel streaming video acquisition, filter, and playback drivers with associated user-mode DirectShow filters and property sheets.* Support for COM automation control and ActiveX Scripting for a REXX language interpreter.* High-end workflow sorting and scheduling, PostScript RIP integration, and color copier device drivers, integrated with NT printing subsystem to create a high-end printing subsystem.* Digital camera and scanner applications, TWAIN data sources, and device drivers supporting 23 different cameras and scanners from 6 different manufacturers.* Numerous Kernel Device Drivers, SDKs, and utilities.

Lead the software development of a second-generation distributed document image processing subsystem hosted by DOS, X-Windows, and Windows 3.1. Managed a team of 8 developers, 4 of whom were off-site. Developed SCSI hard drive and optical disk drivers, networking, display, scanner, and printer drivers, and a proprietary high-performance distributed file system. Implemented several TCP/IP protocols, including an FTP client and server, a Telnet client and server, and BOOTP server.

Brought experience in image processing applications, disk drive technology, software development, and project management skills to a troubled program involving 12 real-time subsystems utilizing 19 M680xx processors running pSOS. Completely re-wrote the control firmware for an off-line sub-system that assembled down-sampled image tiles into full-sized tiles. Re-engineered and led the re-write of the 3-tiered cache management firmware that maintained a 3-D cache of compressed image tiles, a 3-D cache of uncompressed tiles, and a 2-D 2K x 2K cache of display pixels.

Co-founded a company developing a color pre-press system for the commercial printing industry. Designed a system integrating typography, line art, and photo-images with page layout and press-sheet imposition. The system was based on Sun NeWS and DisplayPostscript, and incorporated many advanced graphic design features, including 2-D constructive geometry, and proprietary algorithms for color separation, black printer creation, under-color removal, and gray-component replacement.

Designed and implemented the control and user interface software for a nuclear fuel rod inspection facility. Designed and implemented the hardware and software for a commercial building security and monitoring system. Taught graduate course in Computer Graphics at University of Delaware. Researched CAD/CAM and CAP markets in preparation for starting Anray.

Performed requirements specification, high-level hardware and software design and implementation, engineering supervision, budgeting, and manpower scheduling on several chemical control systems projects. Developed the industry's first object-oriented client/server process animation display system.

Worked on several hardware and software development projects in support of flight, missile, and electromagnetic environment (radar) simulation facilities.

Mee, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Bsee, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, & Math