Mogens Lauritzen was born in Denmark. While studying at University of New Hampshire in the early 1980’s, he became alarmed about the prospect of global warming, and began pestering his relatives with dire forecasts of rising sea levels. During the 1990’s, Lauritzen was busy experimenting with solar flat plate thermal systems, and added a solar PV system to his home at the dawn of the new century. It was out of those efforts that Lauritzen identified a need for better feedback methods in remote/distributed energy systems which in turn led to the remote controlled Thor™ Solar Thermal Control system.

Prior to founding Lauritzen Inc., he worked as a manager and consultant at Silicon Valley companies designing micro-processors. Mogens holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering from University of New Hampshire, is a licensed C-10 and C-46 contractor, and is the holder of 3 US patents. Now that he is done with the Bugatti, during his idle (ha) time, Mogens enjoys windsurfing, racquet & winter sports, and hiking in the California outdoors.

Phil Hunter has a BSEET from DeVry Institute of Technology, and is a VMware Certified Professional. Prior to working at Lauritzen, he has worked as both a Solaris and RedHat Linux administrator and supported all kinds of computer systems as both a hardware and software technician.

Phil’s has long been interested in alternative energy and green technology. Recent projects have included running his lawn mower on hydrogen and experimenting with high voltage electrostatic agricultural sprayers. Fortunately, these experiments are not being done in proximity.

Ben Fredrickson is a recent graduate of the University of California at Berkeley (Go Bears!) with a double major in Math and Computer Science. As our intern, he works on a wide variety of projects including web sites, perl scripts, and our pic based controllers.

Ben's hobbies include robotics, and he has worked with both OpenCV and ROS.

 

Alan Federman started his career as an faculty member in Earth and Space Sciences. He holds a PhD in Oceanography from Oregon State University. He became interested in computers and electronics, and was swept up in the personal computer revolution in the early eighties. He has worked as an engineer and manager for the USGS, NASA, Yahoo, Cisco and several other high tech organizations.

He loves teaching and has recently taught both astronomy and oceanography at the community college level. He still instructs students in industrial arts at the Techshop™, and builds robots. He has coached National Championship teams in both FIRST (FRC) and Botball. His personal website is sadly antiquated for someone who claims to be a webmaster.