Sam’s Current Activities

Engineers Without Borders: Started up an EWB-USA COVID-19 Response Innovation Team to work on concepts for methods and devices to reduce the expected virus spread and assist with treatments of COVID-19 patients. The Team is investigating challenge-submitted concepts and requests from under-resourced regions worldwide. The first request resulted in a handbook with possible designs and instructions to assemble simple hand washing stations in under-resourced African regions. The first challenge released April 14th is exploring ways to clean hands other than with hard to provide soap and clean water.

Entrepreneurship Assistance: Helping to generate a presentation packet for a start-up company. So far, the individuals that formed the company have developed a valuable technology to optimize complex industrial processes. My efforts include targeting other applications, projecting usages, and showing the value added by using the proven technology.

Political: Continue supporting efforts to flip the Senate, hold the House, reduce Gerrymandering, and fight voter suppression. Part of the effort is to continuing to work with Swing Left East Bay.

Condo Emergency Preparedness: Head of committee to help condo residents prepare for emergencies. Worked on condo's procedures for residents to avoid Coronavirus infections and an emergency texting alert system.

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.