Alan Black Email & Phone Number

Fletcher, Nc, Us

Fletcher, Nc

Senior application engineer for a company specializing in precision fluid controls for demanding applications5+ years handling majority of customer inquiries and troubleshooting, configuring and quoting custom equipment for pressure and flow controlEducates prospective customers in basic concepts of fluid controls, empowering them to use our products to improve their systemsUses mathematical modeling to size and predict the performance of valves. Works with design engineers to further develop and improve our internal modeling software Worked on prototype electronics controls project with Arduino using Python and C codeWorks with upper management to achieve key growth initiatives and management of our product linesAnalyzes sales data to discover trends in market and adjust our product offerings and marketing to target new clienteleWorks with marketing to improve customer-facing literature based on customer feedback and new opportunitiesTrains and supervises junior application/sales engineersManages distributor/sales channel relations, product training, and onboarding of new sales repsWorked booths at multiple trade shows in pharma, catalysis, and hydrogen industries

Worked as a personal tutor through Wyzant.Tutored students in high school physics and university calculus.Guided students through homework and test preparation problems.

Worked as a graduate teaching assistant while studying for a year in the Physics department's PhD program.Instructed and supervised students in introductory physics lab courses. Graded lab reports and essays. Set up lab equipment and troubleshooted any issues the students hadTaught recitation classes for introductory physics (basic classical mechanics.)Helped students with homework and test preparation in the physics tutorial center (1st and 2nd year classical mechanics and electromagnetism)Wrote academic review papers on advanced physics concepts as part of coursework.

Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

Undergraduate researcher in computational astrophysics. Worked on hydrodynamic simulations of Type Ia supernovae remnants.Wrote code to track the location of shock waves and the elemental composition of ejecta. Evolved 2D and 3D simulations of supernovae from 100 seconds after detonation to ages of over 100 years using VH-1, a Fortran-based hydrodynamics code. Compared the simulated remnants to observational radio and x-ray data from remnant G1.9+0.3, the youngest Type Ia remnant in the galaxy. Taught self Python to handle data post-processing and presentation in graphs, heat maps, etc.Presented research findings at several undergraduate symposia and as a final project in a graduate level computational physics course.Wrote radial averaging code to reduce 3D supernova initial conditions to 2D and 1D datasets as a means of analyzing effect of dimensionality on hydrodynamics code as the simulated remnants evolved.Learned how to execute code remotely on department computing cluster to mitigate downtime from long compute times and began work on optimizing code for parallelization.

Asheville, North Carolina, United States

Cashier and customer service rep at Best Buy during high school