Press & Features — Rudy Parra

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Rudy in an NMTT-branded polo greeting Mayor Tim Keller and a guest at the Desert Dev Lab 2026 sponsor area

Desert Dev Lab 2026 · NM Tech Talks

Greeted Mayor Tim Keller at Desert Dev Lab 2026

Welcomed Mayor Tim Keller on arrival at WESST Enterprise Center and served as one of his point-persons throughout the event — walking him through the hackathon floor, introducing him to sponsors and judges, and connecting him with the founding teams behind the projects that came out of the weekend.

See the full DDL 2026 impact

Rudy standing next to U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich beside Pii Energy solar panels during a tour of the GridFlow and Pii Energy facility

U.S. Senate · Heinrich tour

Hosted Senator Martin Heinrich and team at GridFlow + Pii Energy

Walked Senator Martin Heinrich and his team through the GridFlow lab and the Pii Energy space — showing the full arc of renewable energy in New Mexico from the commercial market (GridFlow's flow-battery R&D) to the consumer market (Pii Energy's plug-in Edge 2000 solar + storage system).

Pii Energy in PV Magazine

Group photo with U.S. Representative Melanie Stansbury, Rudy, and Central New Mexico Community College students outside a campus building

U.S. House · CNM visit

Sat with Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury & CNM students

Joined Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury and a roundtable of CNM students to share how Central New Mexico Community College's programs — STEM Core, the AAS in Computer Information Systems / Network Administration, and the Deep Dive bootcamps — opened a real path from community college into clean-energy R&D, defense, and applied research.

CNM Ingenuity · STEMulus Center

Deep Dive IoT Alum

A YouTube Short spotlight by CNM's Deep Dive IoT bootcamp on what 400+ hours of smart-device coding, electronics, soldering, and factory automation prepared me to build.

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Awarepreneurs · Episode 371

Bootstraps and Bootcamps: New Mexico's Pathways Into Tech

Hosted by Paul Zelizer · June 3, 2025 · ~52 min

A long-form conversation about going from community college through bootcamps into clean-energy R&D — and why nontraditional pathways and a strong local community are how tech actually gets built in New Mexico.

Apple Podcasts Spotify Website

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GridFlow · Flow Battery R&D 7 articles

Sandia National Labs

Boosting Battery Research

Sandia National Labs

Sandia partnership speeds up development of flow batteries for green grid

NM Inno · ABQ Business Journal

Meet GridFlow, the startup changing home and commercial energy storage

NM Inno · ABQ Business Journal

NM battery startup chosen for global competition, chance at $1M prize

Albuquerque Journal

NM tech startup GridFlow wins regional pitch competition

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NM tech startup GridFlow wins regional pitch competition

New Mexico Angels

Meet GridFlow, the startup changing home and commercial energy storage

Pii Energy · Edge 2000 5 articles

PV Magazine

Pii Energy unveils plug-in 1.2 kW solar, 2 kWh home system

PV Magazine USA

The theory and practice of plug-in solar

ESS News

Plug-in power in the US: Pii Energy unveils 1.2 kW / 2 kWh solar plus storage home system

KOB 4

Albuquerque company develops portable panels to make solar energy more accessible

Albuquerque Journal

Heinrich tours trio of energy startups — Pii Energy plug-in solar system gets a close look

NM Tech Talks · Desert Dev Lab 2026 7 articles

KOB 4

Inaugural New Mexico Tech Talks Begin Thursday