Sam’s Current Activities

Entrepreneurship Assistance: Continuing to generate a demonstration prototype, targeting and meeting with potential investors and purchasers, then later structuring the start-up forming an appropriate entity once the path to meet the founder’s goals are clear..

Political: Working on getting volunteers phoning from their home focusing on flipping the Senate, holding the House, reducing Gerrymandering, and fighting voter suppression. Investigating texting for the same goals. When the Democratic candidate is chosen, will work to elect a new president. Am on the Swing Left East Bay's steering committee.

Engineers Without Borders: For the 2019 annual national EWB-USA conference, generated and then ran an Innovation Workshop. It gave an abbreviated experience of innovating technology to address community-identified problems. Based on participant feedback, have been asked to run Innovation Workshops at the 2020 and 2021 annual conferences. Also working on other possible EWB innovation related programs.

Condo Emergency Preparedness: Heads committee to help condo residents prepare for emergencies. Worked on condo's procedures for residents to avoid Coronavirus infections.

Services Offered and History

For decades, Sam Burd has successfully engineered new products, started & assisted others in starting entrepreneurial ventures, organized political campaigns, and supported community improvement projects. For many of these projects, he initiated, recruited, and/or led the project to successful conclusion.

The keys to projects Sam works on now usually rely on a mixture of Sam’s interests. To make it easier to see the specifics of his background, this web site is broken into three sections; Business, Community, and Technology.