Robert Berger Email & Phone Number

Saratoga, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Informed.IQ is a Machine Learning B2B2C SaaS that automates verifications of consumer credit applications in real-time for an ecosystem of Lenders and their clients - "Turns Documents and Data into Decisions".- Facilitate the evolution of the next generation MLOps Serverless architecture

Consulting firm to assist start-ups, venture capital firms and enterprises, to understand, develop and utilize Internet technology / infrastructure and Open Source. Previous onsulting and advisory positions have include Informed.IQ, ExperienceFLow, Intel, Visa, Ascend, Cisco, IDG World Expo, NEA, Athena Tech Ventures, iAsiaWorks, Ipsilon, Firstpoint.

San Jose, California, US

Netenrich offers IT infrastructure management and optimization services including end-to-end NOC based management framework that enables complete remote visibility and management of a multi site infrastructure from core network components to desktops. They have developed a set of hardware, software and remote services that enable afordable and secure.

San Mateo, California, US

Omnyway offers a Live Streaming Commerce platform (https://www.visx.live) that allows retailers to create one to many sales events and one to one live VIP sales consultations. The big difference is that VISX enables the shopper to buy the products being shown without leaving the live video stream. It also enables the retailer to fulfill from their physical.

Cupertino, CA, US

Investigated, defined, designed the overall cloud infrastructure for real time acquisition, machine learning and monitoring of network devices and services. Created and implemented the DevOps process centered around Continuous Integration and automated deployment. The Kafka and Storm Microservices stack was deployed and maintained using Chef Provisioning.

Consulting / Training Service in the realms of DevOps, Big Data / Cloud / Internet Infrastructure.Focus includes:* DevOps Process Development and Integration* Continuous Delivery Pipelines* Cloud / On Premise Migrations* Monitoring / Metrics / Alerting* Hadoop Ecosystem* Configuration Management and Orchestration

Co-founder and CTO of Stealth Startup to train sysadmins, ops and devs in the realms of Big Data and Hadoop.

Mountain View, CA, US

SaaS for online merchants that increases conversion of Website shoppers to buyers and dramatically increasing profit for the merchants. Runa delivers personalized Dynamic Promotions for each product to each shopper on the merchant’s site to close the sale and thus increase online revenues. The Promotion is optimized based on the consumer’s behavior and.

Panorama Capital invests in early and mid-stage Internet, Networking, Biotech startups. http://www.panoramacapital.com/As a member of their Technical Advisory Board I introduce opportunities, offer due diligence services and help to refine key investment themes, assess technical, product and market risks in new deals, and provide post-investment input.

Support-Intelligence "data mines" Internet Infrastructure and huge volumes of SPAM from various sources to discover compromised hosts and other normally anonymous threats on the Internet.The company was founded on the premise that malicious network activity can best be controlled by applying modern machine learning algorithms to large volumes of aggregated.

Cloudscaling is the leading provider of open cloud infrastructure solutions for cloud-ready applications. The Cloudscaling Open Cloud System (OCS) is the first infrastructure-as-a-service solution designed to deliver the cost, performance and scalability benefits of Amazon Web Services (AWS) for public and private clouds. Based on the industry-supported.

Los Angeles, CA, US

Member of the Board of Advisors for WeFi which is a Startup in the WiFi / Social Networking space.I help them with market positioning and technical issues. Also have done some technical prototyping (using RubyCocoa) and testing with their Macintosh client.

"The GridNetworks GridCast™ Platform enables content owners to securely stream full-screen, DVD-quality video across the Internet to millions of broadband connected viewers worldwide...The GridCast Platform is a complete video delivery solution that combines centralized command-and-control with automated video encoding, sophisticated video syndication.

Startup in early beta mode developing innovative teleconferencing service.My work includes software design and development using both standalone Ruby and Ruby on Rails for email, calendar processing with RESTful interfaces. Main work now is on a real-time Ruby on Rails / Ext.js AJAX / Javascript dashboard for the conference calls.Also includes consulting.

Boorah had developed "a patent-pending Natural Language Processing technology to generate quantitative scores for domain specific attributes from plain English text, automatic summary from most relevant user sentiments and enables a highly customizable search based on personal preferences."For their initial domain that exploits their technology, they have.

Santa Clara, CA, US

Initially researched the market for Muni-wireless size and requirements. Defined, architected and project managed the creation of the product (using the core products that Skypilot already made) that allowed SkyPilot to move from a pure WISP vendor to a leading Muni-Wireless equipment vendor.Worked with internal engineering / manufacturing and China based.

US

Introduced the use of Ruby and Rails for their online service

Program Chair facilitating the organization of the Technical Program for the APRICOT conferences throughout the Asia Pacific Region.In the early days this included writing the conference registration system. Later managing the outsourcing and design of the conference registration and speaker management.The main work was finding appropriate speakers and.

US

Last Mile wireless service provider that leverages "mesh" 802.11 technology.Developed the network architecture (metro, regional and Internet) which integrated the wireless mesh network into the MetroFi Backbone and interconnects with ISP partners and Internet upstream / peers. Defined, selected equipment, deployed and managed the pilot network. Defined.

Led a research project on Open Spectrum wireless public networking. Included reports to Glocom’s clients such as NTT Communications and Tokyo Electric Power Company. Research areas included the technological and policy issues of Ultra-wideband, Wideband Spread Spectrum, Cognitive Software Defined Radios. Responsibilities included researching and reporting.

• Early stage start-up for carrier class broadband wireless networking equipment and gateways for next generation broadband wireless carriers/ISPs. Included the matching residential/SOHO gateway devices all leveraging.
• Strategic business, product and technical planning and development
• Fund raising and business development (presented to scores of VCs)
• Team building and technical leadership
• Open source software development for embedded systems

US

Member of the Board of Advisors

White Plains, NY, US

Used my experience building InterNex to help AboveNet expand into different services

Helped them understand the Internet Service Provider's requirements for delivering scalable Hosting services.

Was the first ISP to use Ascend products for delivering High Speed Internet via ISDN to businesses and consumers.Later toured the world giving presentations and lectures on deploying state of the art High Speed Internet Services.

Founded company to offer innovative business-to-business information services on the Internet. Originally One-Stop-Shopping for Internet access via ISDN (first to offer commercial Internet access via ISDN in the US). Supplied seed funding. Created business plan. Assembled and led start-up management team, fund raising and mergers. Company was sold to.

• Investigated technological issues and market outlook for starting an Internet business. Created business plans and financial models. Worked with Pacific Bell ISDN Lab to test and demonstrate Internet access via ISDN..
• Produced video report on the capabilities of integrated Macintosh/Adobe Premier Video editing system for Sony Professional Video Group.

Tokyo, JP

• Developed the Software Architecture for a next generation professional video production environment that integrated video editing, special effects and production materials management.
• Instituted and managed the software development effort (6+ team members) of a prototype and initial productization of the integrated video production environment.
• Led the User Interface Design effort for the productization phase.
• Evaluated and selected workstation platforms, OO development environments, OO GUI tools, real-time OS and embedded systems for use in developing the video production environment. (NeXTStep)
• Defined requirements and oversaw the administration of the internal Unix / Macintosh / PC network at AVTC.
• Established standards for object oriented system development at AVTC and worked with Sony world wide engineering to establish new software development practices.

• Managed the Composium Family software team. The Composium product integrates real-time Digital Compositing of 4 layers using alpha or luma keying, real-time Digital Video Effects, 32 bit color paint, machine control of.
• Facilitated the transition from engineering development into shipping the product.
• Brought a higher level of stability and predictability to the software process including the introduction of project planning, scheduling and software release procedures.
• Met extensively with existing and potential customers in the video post production industry (owners, artists and editors) to gain insight into customer needs and to clarify short and long term product direction.

Was the intial Software person at Datacube and built the Software Engineering group there. Defined the architecture of several generations of Datacube's software and system level products. Built the software group from myself to a team of 20 people.Pioneered many techniques of integrating real-time image processing into early Sun Workstations and embedded.

Designed and implemented (software in C under RT-11 and hardware integration of DEC LSI-11/23 and IKONAS Framebuffer) broadcast quality interactive electronic paint system for the rock music producer Todd Rundgren’s video production environment. Used for early Music Video Productions.

Supported the design and implementation of an LSI-11 based image processing workstation. Trouble shooting of Q-Bus and image processing hardware.

Full time fund raising for environmental group. Conceived, coordinated and organized very large (20,000+ people) concert / demonstration events with performers including Jackson Brown, Pete Seeger, John Hall and Arlo Guthrie. These demonstrations were the inspiration for the even larger political concerts of the 80’s.

Designed and built mechanical and electrical prototypes as part of an Electron Beam Accessed Memory System (EBAM). A system to act as a “swap memory” for mainframe computers.

Mass Communications

(Not A Degree Program), Lisp And Robotics Iap Program