Henry Berg

Current

Product Unit Manager at Microsoft Corporation

Past

Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Corporation
Managing Principal Engineer, Hardware at Vulcan Inc.
Vice President, Engineering at Tiqit Computers, Inc.

Research / Teaching Assistant at Stanford University
User Interface Designer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Naval Flight Officer at U.S. Navy

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Education

University of Washington
Stanford University
Yale University

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Henry Berg’s Experience

Product Unit Manager

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

July 2006 — Present (3 years 1 month)

Insight Tools Group, Online Services Division

• Built incubation group in Corporate Strategy, Finance Division, to design and deploy prediction market platform.

• Hired two developers and two program managers, moved group to Ads R&D, Online Services Division in 2007.

• Worked out mathematics and functionality, patented, implemented and deployed four collective intelligence tools.

• Coordinated with legal, government affairs, Google and Yahoo for prediction market industry feedback to CFTC.

• Created and ran adCenter Challenge development contest, including infrastructure and cross-group coordination.

• Managed relationships with research, production, legal, privacy, security, public relations and operations groups.
Software Development Engineer

Microsoft Corporation

(Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

July 2005 — June 2006 (1 year)

Binary Technologies Team, Core Operating Systems Division

• Added high-performance random sample tracing to dynamic x86 trace recording and replay tools.

• Created automated tool to check x64 exception handling structures as part of daily build process.
Managing Principal Engineer, Hardware

Vulcan Inc.

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

December 2003 — February 2005 (1 year 3 months)

Technology Research & Development Department

• Led team of 6 engineers to produce Transmeta Efficeon motherboard, first article of which booted Windows XP.

• Built new hardware laboratory, directed search for outside vendors, negotiated and finalized contracts.

• Worked with owner, subcontractors and other groups within Vulcan to define product features and functionality.
Vice President, Engineering

Tiqit Computers, Inc.

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Hardware industry)

April 2000 — January 2003 (2 years 10 months)

Led engineering development effort for Tiqit Computers, a privately funded startup dedicated to the development of a next-generation handheld PC. Tiqit’s fully-functional prototypes were featured in Business Week, Red Herring (cover story), Popular Science, PC World and other publications.

• Produced smallest integrated computer ever to run Windows XP using new technologies including highly integrated CPU, custom designed power management system, 1.8 inch disk drive and stacked memory.

• Led design team of 9 engineers from initial concept through production of working prototypes.

• Managed software engineering team responsible for Windows drivers, BIOS integration and microcontroller code.
Research / Teaching Assistant

Stanford University

(Educational Institution; 501-1000 employees; Research industry)

September 1997 — March 2000 (2 years 7 months)

Computer Science Department

• Designed and built an infrared vision system for gesture recognition.

• Programmed PalmOS devices for distributed computing and interactive workspace projects.

• Assisted with all aspects of course in human-computer interaction (discussion, exams, grading).
User Interface Designer

Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1998 — August 1998 (3 months)

Conflict Simulation Laboratory, Q Division

• Designed and implemented X-Windows/Motif interface in C++ for a simulation system.
Naval Flight Officer

U.S. Navy

(Government Agency; 10,001 or more employees; Military industry)

April 1991 — January 1997 (5 years 10 months)

USS George Washington, Norfolk, Virginia, 1995-1997

• Led teams of five aircrew flying E-2C Hawkeye radar planes from aircraft carrier.

• Managed combat deployment air operations over Bosnia and Iraq.

• Prosecuted administrative hearings and led legal investigations as Legal Officer.

USS Independence, Yokosuka, Japan, 1993-1994

• Operated aircraft tactical data and radar systems while flying from aircraft carrier.

• Coordinated radio message traffic in and out of unit while acting as Communications Officer.

Officer and Flight Training: Pensacola, Florida, 1991 and San Diego, California, 1992

• Training in radar and identification systems, aircraft computer systems and aerodynamics.

Henry Berg’s Education

University of Washington

Certificate , Embedded and Real-Time Systems Programming , October 2004 — May 2005
Stanford University

MS , Computer Science , September 1997 — March 2000

GPA 4.0, Qualified as PhD candidate in Computer Systems
Focus areas databases, programming languages and computer interfaces.
Yale University

BS , Electrical Engineering , September 1985 — May 1990

Digital Systems Focus, GPA 3.7 (3.9 in major), Distinction in major, Tau Beta Pi, Award for best student in department.