Bob Krause Email & Phone Number

Berkeley, CA, US

A group of seasoned energy professionals have come together around the shared mission of enabling the development of community microgrids and other DERs at scale throughout the state. Spark Communities team members are leveraging diverse perspectives, expertise, and networks to overcome regulatory, financial, and technical challenges to move California.

Today’s challenges can be tomorrow’s opportunities. With over 30 years of experience as a technologist and entrepreneur, I collaborate with technology companies and mission-driven organizations to help them think creatively about addressing current challenges in ways that create long-term value. I’m pursuing opportunities in renewable/distributed energy.

Introduced the first object database engine designed for use in mass-market consumer applications. NeoAccess enabled the development of hundreds of new applications which have resulted in over 250 million shipments/downloads that have contributed to revenues for customers in excess of $15 billion. Customers include AOL, Apple, Avid, CompuServe.

Teaches technology & innovation privately and at San Francisco Bay Area schools, leads the Classroom 3D group on Thingiverse, produces the popular Tinkercad Tutorials channel on YouTube, edits the TinkerTeacher blog at tinkerteacher.blogspot.com, actively contributes to the OnShape and Tinkercad user communities, and supports STEAM programs, educators and.

At the time of launch, the financial benefits of residential PV in the areas of Northern California serviced by Pacific Gas & Electric were compelling, with lifetime internal rates of return commonly above 10%. But the industry had to recruit beyond the pool of highly-motivated early adopters they'd traditionally relied upon to sustain annual sales growth.

Member of a team of experienced entrepreneurs and utility/residential energy veterans exploring potential opportunities enabled by the emergence of Home Area Networks (HAN) and Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI). After brainstorming various opportunities, the focus turned toward low-cost, wirelessly-enabled, thin-client information displays with.

Richmond, California, US

As a leading systems integrator of rooftop and ground-mounted commercial photovoltaic power systems worldwide, accelerating or even sustaining SunPower’s 40% annual growth required that the processes used by the sales and system engineering groups be overhauled using the latest technologies to optimize information flow across functions and streamline.

Researched, evolved and solicited funding to launch a self-service mobile ordering startup. The objective was to enable retail product and service providers to increase per-store revenues, lower costs and improve consumer loyalty. This would be accomplished by deploying a pizza box –like “mobile transaction portal” connected to the peripheral chain of POS.

San Jose, California, US

Responsible for getting the development of a new point-to-multipoint wireless system’s software component off the ground. Accomplishments included;* Collected internal and external functional requirements,* Initiated and led the committee of RF, hardware, firmware and software engineers to develop a system architecture that had consensus support throughout.

Houston, Texas, US

Researched issues associated with the development of the networking portion of a real-time Unix kernel suitable for use in factory automation applications. Issues explored included the use of semaphores to manage concurrency, process scheduling, minimum latency requirements and API support.

Ann Arbor, Michigan, US

Having developed and deployed the first virtual-memory operating system for IBM mainframes in the 1960’s, the advent of distributed computing caused the university's computing center to undertake a massive effort to decentralize computing resources on campus. Designed and implemented a new client application that allowed users of workstations to access.

Provided sole customer support and staff training on large Multics time-sharing systems for universities and multi-nationals in the U.S. and Europe. The Multics operating system was the precursor of Unix. It was the first commercial system to use virtual memory, a hierarchical file system, extensible command-line syntax, hardware enforced security and.