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Profile
B.O.S. Electric is a growing team of technicians, supervisors, administrators, designers, and electricians. We have a staff licensed electrical engineer and lighting designer. We specialize in high-end lighting and lighting control systems. Design-build projects are our forte. We started in our present form in 1984, with the company incorporating at the start of 1995. We’re currently working in at least seven bay area counties, but are looking outside our present area to franchise additional locations in order to provide service in other communities that would support our type of business.
Dan Carlos, President
A lifetime Marin County resident, Dan came to B.O.S. in May of 1991. His efforts on our behalf may be the single most important reason for the subsequent success of the business. At the time of this writing Dan has been in the electrical construction business for nearly 35 years. Dan attended College of Marin (A.S.) and Sacramento State University. Dan was a self-employed electrical contractor for seven years; had various lengths of employment with CMSH Electric, Gatter Electric, and OFD Electric before taking the number two spot at B.O.S. In 1995 Dan took over the day-today operations of our company in 1994 and became a shareholder, officer in the corporation, and Vice President when Being of Service, Inc. began on Jan. 1st, 1995. Dan currently lives in Novato, CA with wife Laura and two beautiful children, Danielle and Mathew.
dan@bos-electric.com
Scott Thompson, VP OPS Hawaii
A San Francisco electrician for twenty years, Scott started out as a service electrician, were he learned to trouble shoot complex wiring problems. Scott also became responsible for the safe operation and maintenance of most major Holiday Inn fire safety systems in the San Francisco Bay Area. Self-employed for several years, he joined B.O.S. in March of 1994 and took on the management of multiple large projects. Currently, Scott is one of 4 partners and the VP OPS Hawaii. He lives in Kona-Kailua with his wife, Nancy.
scott@bos-electric.com
Julian C. Johnson III, Principal
Julian founded the company in 1984. His previous experience was long and varied.
Julian wired his first row of outlets at age 14, on a project contracted to his step-father; so his total length of experience in the field now exceeds 45 years. In January of 1968 he started a full year of training at the US Navy’s technical training center in Millington, Tennessee, as an aviation electronics technician. The first computers were then being used by the US military. Search radar, ground-stabilized navigational computers, and TACAN systems comprised the main portion of his studies there. 1979 found him in Santa Monica, working as a project supervisor for American Eagle, a large electrical contractor. In early 1980 the side jobs offered to him were to lucrative to ignore, so he left the company to work on his own. Among other notable achievements, he designed and built the electrical systems for the Hand Prop Room in Culver City, still, we believe, the largest prop room servicing the motion picture industry. In 1982 Julian came home to Marin County. Even though he worked as an independent electrician while attending electrical engineering classes, with a new family starting, he opted to go into electrical construction instead of engineering, for financial security reasons. On June 15, 1984 he was finally licensed and insured. In the following years, he slowly built up the business, always leaning toward higher-end projects, trying to incorporate his design, electronics, and engineering background into the work he sought. The focus of our firm has always been 'Being of Service': remain focused on the wants and needs of our clients, success will follow. In 1991 Julian found a supervisor with the same philosophy in business, Dan Carlos. B.O.S. Electric had eight employees when Dan came to the firm, the business mushroomed after that. By taking over the day-to-day operation of B.O.S., Dan allowed Julian to concentrate on growing the business, building alliances with contractors, specialty manufacturers, architects, and engineers.
Dan received stock in the company in January of 1995, becoming the first partner in the newly-formed corporation, Being of Service, Inc. We opened our Hawaii office in 2002, with our new partner, Scott Thompson, heading the team there.
That division now produces approximately 30% of the company’s total revenue. 2007 saw many changes in the company. Two new companies were started: Electric Associates Design and Alpha-Lux Media Systems. Julian has moved to head up EA Design, and Dan became the President of BOS Electric. Ken Gibbons heads up Alpha-Lux, our AV/Home Theater installation firm.
After all this time, Julian is finally doing what he set out to do nearly 27 years ago; design and engineering. All three companies continue to grow, in good economic times as well as bad; we hope to never vary from the founding focus of the company: Being of Service.
Julian currently lives in the Peacock Gap area of San Rafael with his wife of nearly twenty-five years, Susan, and his nineteen-year-old daughter, Beth Anne. Julian is a member of NARI (National Association of the Remodeling Industry), Robt. Gordon Sproul Associates at the University of California, Berkeley and has served on the board of directors of the San Francisco Girls Chorus for eight years.
julian@bos-electric.com
Margaret Ropers, Office Manager
As our Office Manager, Margaret is faced with the challenges of our ever-expanding business. She joined our team in 2001 and has been enjoying the responsibility of "wearing many hats" ever since. Margaret lived In Saudi Arabia for her first seven years and then relocated with her family to Palo Alto. After graduating from St. Francis High School in Mountain View, Margaret earned a B.S. in food and nutrition from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. She worked in advertising and promotion for the Danish Dairy Co-op in San Francisco after college and then relocated to Germany for several years to travel and learn German. Margaret and her family live in San Anselmo.
margaret@bos-electric.com
Lynn Atteberry, VP OPS Peninsula
Lynn Atteberry heads up our Peninsula office. 1 of 4 partners in B.O.S. Inc. A Bay Area Electrician for 20 years, 10 years with BOS.
Lynn lives in Sausalito with his wife, Mishal.
lynn@bos-electric.com
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