Jonathan Allen
Director Hail Risk Services at VDE Americas
Tucson, Arizona, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJonathan Allen is a director-level engineer who combines a ScD in Chemical Engineering and Professional Engineer credentials with a decade of applied experience at the nexus of meteorology, data science, and PV system risk mitigation. He leads hail risk services at VDE Americas, translating atmospheric science into engineering solutions that reduce damage to solar installations. Founder of Allen Analytics, he has a strong track record of data-driven consulting for utilities, including solar plant modeling with PVLIB, emissions and water-quality analyses, and critique of regulatory statistics. An academic at heart, he has authored 30 peer-reviewed papers and mentored students across chemical and environmental engineering programs. Based in Tucson, he pairs deep research rigor with practical product delivery—having earned multimillion-dollar revenue from technical consulting projects. He brings an unusually broad toolkit spanning field studies, open-source analysis, regulatory forensics, and utility-scale renewable risk assessment.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
ScD, Chemical Engineering, ScD, Chemical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBSE, Chemical Engineering, BSE, Chemical Engineering at University of Pennsylvania
Github Skills (6)
matlab9
documented1
simulation1
energy1
toolbox1
photovoltaic1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
joallen6/MATLAB_PV_LIB
Jun 2016 - Feb 2019
MATLAB PV function library
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches in 2 years 8 months
function-librarymatlab
joallen6/helloworld
Jun 2016 - Jun 2016
Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 3 branches in 1 day
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