Alexander Wagenblast

Site Operations Manager in Darmstadt, providing services to ESOC, EUMETSAT, ESTEC, and ESO. -Identification of worthwhile ITTs and GOF-9 RFPs, identifying WPs and personnel needed, analysing the risk involved (which for ITTs required a listing of the requirements, hours required, and risk for each requirement), writing proposals for the ITT or RFP, and following up. -interviewed, hired, obtained visas and work permits when needed -project manager for 6 activities -regularly attended conferences

Lab and Recitation instructor for calculus based introductory physics courses.  Physics I:  kinematics, forces, energy, momentum, circular motion, fluids.  Physics II:  fields, electrical circuits, capacitance, magnetism, optics. Lab instructor for Astronomy courses.  Labs included both classroom and observatory.  Astronomy I:  Solar system astronomy.  Astronomy II:  Stars and Galaxies.

Organized and tutored the Geology Living/Learning Community, a pilot program with the successful outcome of higher first year student retention.  Organized meetings and speakers, provided counselling and tutoring assistance, and verified attendance to physics and geoscience related club events.

Operated the BE-99 and Metroliner on feeder routes for UPS.

Flight Instructor, Airplane single and multiengine land, Instrument Instructor, Advanced Ground Instructor

General contractor for wholesale real estate investing in Wickenburg area.

Developer of web based software that managed listings on Ebay and tracked items from listing to feedback (before Ebay started doing this themselves.) In addition, customers could do limited photo editing, automatically deliver feedback and email, interface with UPS to automatically produce shipping labels, and appraise their items using a tool I created called “SmartLister” that would scrape Ebay for similar items sold in the last 90 days to determine the approximate final value of the item.

Worked with engineers, programmers, and customers to verify that the tool worked to their specifications.

Course Work:  Classical Dynamics, Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics, Quantum Physics, Semiconductors, Mathematical Methods for Physics, Planetary Geology, Remote Sensing, Advanced Geomorphology, Sequence Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Processes

ArcGIS, Structural Geology, Minerology and Petrology, Stratigraphy and Sedimentation, Hydrology, Geomorphology, Environmental Geology, Field Methods, Field Camp with Stephen F. Austin University (Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah)

Mechanics, Electricity and Magnetism, Quantum Mechanics, Computational Physics, Applied Optics, Engineering Dynamics, Geophysics, and Digital Electronics.