User:Mrfunding

Mrfunding is a pseudonym for Robert Steven Kramarz, most commonly known as Rob Kramarz. Mr. Kramarz is an organization development and management training consultant, living San Diego, California. He specializing in improving corporate culture so that companies are more likely to succeed. He is active as a professional investor and member of Tech Coast Angels and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also founder of Intelliversity, a non-profit that provides management training for entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors who want to be successful in business. Around Tech Coast Angels he's known as "the team guy."

Mr. Kramarz studied phsyics and environmental studies at California Institute of Technology. He earned a BA in psychology from UC Santa Cruz, where he participated in a small group of students and faculty who designed the core curriculum and campus of Kresge College in the early 1970's.

After several years of computer programming professionally, Mr. Kramarz moved into technical writing then director of corporate communications for Vector Graphics and as General Manager and Marketing Vice President for Cordata in the early 1980's. He was instrumental in obtaining venture funding for Cordata in 1981-2.

Following these management positions, Mr. Kramarz utilized his writing and training skills to design a series of training programs for Accelerated Computer Training and mastered classroom skills by teaching for a number of adult education schools in the middle 1980s. In the late 1980's through the late 1990's, Mr. Kramarz was co-founder and CEO of computer software company 1776, Inc. which specialized in UNIX system software and storage equipment with an emphasis on high availability. In this role, he refined his ability to develop training tools and marketing programs for high technology ventures. He also developed skills in the related area of software human interface design, designing the human interface for 1776 software.

Beginning in 1999 until 2002, Mr. Kramarz assisted a number of software firms during the dot-com era in the preparation of business plans and the raising of capital. During this period, he also mastered the art of ghost-writing patent applications, writing a total of 21 provisional patents all in the area of software technology, of which at least three have have been allowed as a patent at the time of this writing.

In 2003, Mr. Kramarz took a break from technology and took up real estate. He obtained his license as a real estate agent, specializing in mortgage loans and in purchasing homes at below market prices. He was successful for a number of years during the real estate boom and wrote many articles on his methods. He also had a radio show on KCEO in San Diego called The Problem Solvers, where he was given the title "The King of Instant Equity". Mr. Kramarz's also designed the training program for Foreclosure Trackers, Inc., teaching the public how to profitably purchase defaulted mortgages.

Meanwhile, beginning in 1999 to the present, Mr. Kramarz resumed his study of adult education methods. He took on leadership roles in a variety of adult and business education programs such as Excellerated Business Schools. Through these programs, Mr. Kramarz has developed a broad background in various training methods for adults, with a particular interest in management training.

In 2006, Mr. Kramarz founded a company called "Intelliversity" whose goal is to train entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors in the human arts of business management, so that their ventures are more likely to succeed. The term "Intelliversity" is a combination of "Intelligent" and "University". It also echoes the term "Intelliverse", a term coined by Mr. Kramarz, referring to the idea of an intelligent universe. The first offering by the Intelliversity in 2006 was a course on creativity for business leaders, designed to stimulate the ability to innovate and sustain a culture of innovation. In this course, Mr. Kramarz included a number of ideas of his own about how to facilitate creativity in adults, as well as classic methods such as Six Thinking Hats developed by Edward de Bono.

Intelliversity applied for non-profit status and received its 501(c)3 status in 2010. As a non-profit, Intelliversity plans to carry out research to discover causative relationships between measurable aspects of corporate culture and business success in emerging growth companies. This will enable professional investors, such as angels and venture capital firms, to invest in companies that have a greater likelihood of long-term success. Intelliversity operates a blog at www.intelliversity.wordpress.com and plans a series of training programs for entrepreneurs, scientists and inventors on creating winning management teams and corporate cultures.