• Chief Information Officer  • Chief Scientist  • Chief Technologist  • CEO Advisor or Group Executive  • Vice Chairman  • Political/Government Affairs Executive  • Defense/Policy Strategy Advisor  • High Performance Computing & Communications  • Collaborative Trusted Grid Researcher/Integrator  • Global Information Infrastructure Innovation Partner

From 1977 to 1980, while still on active duty with the Air Force, Mr. Berlin was selected to serve as a senior consultant with the Federal Computer Performance Evaluation and Simulation Center (FEDSIM). In this capacity, he was one of a small group of experts that provided consulting services throughout the U.S. federal government to assist in planning and implementing acquisition of major information systems and networks. His clients included the Department of Justice, various defense organizations, the Social Security Administration, the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the General Services Administration. 

From 1980 until 1994, after leaving active duty to join Cray Research, he continued in the Air Force Reserve, focusing on computational science research and global assessment of HPC technology and application trends. While assigned to the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, in 1987, he was co-author of the first U.S. Air Force Supercomputing Master Plan, which was the blueprint for the Department of Defense HPC Modernization Program established in 1992. From 1982 until 1994, Mr. Berlin was also a public service consultant to the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he assisted in the evaluation of foreign computing technology and global application of high performance computing based modeling and simulation in support of military objectives. 

Throughout his career, Mr. Berlin has been active in a number of additional professional activities, with a particular focus on high performance computing and technology policy. He also has twice been asked to testify before the U.S. Congress, once before the House Science and Technology Committee, concerning high performance computing, and once before the Senate Commerce Committee, concerning technology transfer and competitiveness policy. He has also written testimony presented before the Senate Small Business Subcommittee, the House Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology, and the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. He also was involved in early stages of development of competitiveness initiatives both in the Federal government and in the Congress. From January to June of 1986, he was a Visiting Executive Fellow (Competitiveness Policy) at the Free Congress Foundation. 

From 1992 to September 1994, Mr. Berlin chaired the Computing and Applications Infrastructure Subcommittee of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications and Information Policy. In 1994-95 Mr. Berlin served on the American Electronics Association's Communications and Information Policy Task Force, a small group of industry leaders chartered to articulate a road map for industry participation in the emerging Global Information Infrastructure. He was a founding member of AEA's National Information Infrastructure Executive Task Force; and was a member of the Scientific  Computation Division Advisory Panel of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) from 1994 to 1996. 

From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Berlin served as the Chairman of the High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) Consortium, a unique cross-industry group sponsored by the American Electronics Association, including academic, research, industry and user groups interested in the HPCC/NII initiatives and related application-oriented programs. From 1989 to 1991, he served as the Senior Policy Fellow for the Research Consortium, Inc. (RCI), where he focused his speaking on issues related to the global impact of high performance computing. From 1983 to 1986, he served on the Department of Commerce Electronics Industry Sector Advisory Committee (ISAC-5). He has also served on the SDI Technology Applications Advisory Panel (Electronics), the Electronic Industries Association Government Division Board of Directors, as Chairman of the National Coalition for Science and Technology, and as a public service consultant to the State
  and Defense Departments to address issues relating to export control of supercomputing technology.  

Since entering the high performance computing field, in 1981, Mr. Berlin has become recognized as a leading expert and spokesman on technology policy and strategies key to the effective application of HPC in industry and research. He has been interviewed by Cable News Network, the Washington Post, and other publications; he has given major speeches on related topics; and has written both congressional testimony and published articles and editorials designed to promote interest in the field. Mr. Berlin has been an occasional opinion writer for the HPCC Week. In 1993 to 1994, he served as Senior Editor of Technology Transfer Business Magazine. During this tenure, he authored a series of feature articles concerning defense technology transfer and commercialization following the Cold War. He was a contributing editor of the Spang-Robinson Report on Supercomputing, in 1990-1991, and has also written articles for IEEE Computational Science and Engineering and the International Journal of Test and Evaluation. He was a contributing author in two books related to HPC: Supercomputers: A Key to U.S. Scientific, Technological, and Industrial Preeminence (“Supercomputers: A Policy Opportunity”), Praeger, 1987; and Managing Take-Off in Fast-Growth Companies (“Risk and Decision in High Tech Ventures”), Praeger, 1986. Both of these articles were based on major speeches delivered at the University of Texas Institute for Creative Capitalism (IC2). 

Mr. Berlin is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and The University of Texas Graduate School. Both graduate and undergraduate degrees are in Computer Science and Mathematics. He currently resides in Alexandria, Virginia, with his wife, Kathleen, and their three children, Rebecca, Christopher, and Stephanie. In his role as a father, he has served as an Assistant Scoutmaster, youth football coach, Sunday school teacher, and Congressional candidate.