Chuck Berg

About Chuck Berg

Senior Software Architect, Team Builder & Industry InnovatorRecognized by Microsoft as a Most Valuable Professional (MVP), I am a senior-level software developer and technical team leader with a proven record of delivering award-winning products and systems for consumer, business, and industrial markets. With a strong focus on Microsoft technologies, I combine engineering precision, business insight, and creative problem-solving across diverse platforms and organizational settings. Technical Innovation & Product ExcellenceDirected development of MailSite®, winner of Windows & .NET Magazine’s 2002 Readers\' Choice Award for Best Mail ServerLed engineering for Family Feud Slots, named one of the 10 most innovative products by the American Gaming Summit and hailed as “the most innovative slot machine of all time” by Slot Player MagazinePioneered the process control industry’s first object-oriented client/server animation system for process visualization — work that influenced the architecture and development of HTML and the World Wide Web.🧠 Leadership & Team BuildingUnified a global team across 5 offices, 3 time zones, and 4 countries, driving collaboration and performanceRebuilt and stabilized technical operations after major downsizing, transforming a 16-person team into a high-functioning engineering and IT unitFacilitated the merger of two professional nonprofit organizations, cultivating a unified staff-volunteer culture Business Strategy & GrowthSpearheaded engineering turnaround that led to the successful acquisition by a large casino gaming manufacturerGrew a solo consultancy into a thriving development firm with 7 full-time and 5 contract developers in two yearsProvided technical leadership on 75+ Windows products for 35 clients, maintaining hands-on development across frameworks and toolchainsContributed to raising multi-million-dollar seed funding for four startup ventures

Experience

1. Microsoft Technology Consultant

   Crb Consulting

   Jan 2012 — Present · Las Vegas, NV, US

   Providing professional, technical, management, and business skills to entrepreneurs across the country. Projects include:Co-Founder and CTO for Your Fare Inc. My role was to assure the successful execution of the company’s business mission through the hands-on management, development, and deployment of the company’s technology and service products. Software Developer for a company building large format cutting/finishing systems for the printing industry - focusing on cut-path optimization and 2-1/2D routing.Acting VP of Software Development for startup company Ironwood Medical Information Technology - architected and wrote initial Proof-of-Concept application.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.Architect and lead developer for Sightline Payments LLC, and their Award Winning \"Loyalty Card Plus\" 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.

Education

• Missouri University of Science and Technology

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, & Math

  1970 — 1974

• University of Delaware

  MEE, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

  1976 — 1978

Skills

• Software Development
• Scrum
• Problem Solving
• Distributed Systems
• Gambling
• Mentoring
• .net Framework
• C#
• .net
• Oop
• Windows
• Design Patterns
• Entity Framework
• Software Engineering
• Networking
• Object Oriented Design
• Database Design
• Linq
• Architecture
• Start-Ups
• Tfs
• Sql
• Soa
• Agile Methodologies
• Team Building
• Databases
• Architectures
• Visual Studio
• Web Applications
• Wpf Development
• Operating Systems
• Wpf
• Team Foundation Server (Tfs)
• Web Services
• Windows Communication Foundation (Wcf)
• Windows Workflow
• Agile
• Msbuild
• Gaming
• Iis