Kurt Nelson Email & Phone Number

I’m a Principal Engineer with extensive proven results developing highly profitable products. I’ve introduced numerous innovative and industry leading energetic products and systems in the aerospace, defense and oil & gas market segments. Currently developing new remotely deployed energetic mine clearing systems.• I enjoy a collaborative team environment where learning is fun.• I push the schedule as fast as possible. You can’t recover time; Fail Fast.

Listed skills include Lean Manufacturing, Testing, Product Development, Engineering, and 21 others.

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  Principal Engineer

  Ensign-Bickford Aerospace & Defense Company

  Mar 1987 - Present - Simsbury, Ct 06070

  • Recently developed a universal energetic platform for small to medium sized unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) incorporating aerospace logic safety functions at a commercially available price point. The platform is fully independent of the UAS control systems. The Unmanned Weaponization Package (UWP – Pronounced U-Whip) is a platform-agnostic, remotely operated weaponization system. Attached via a Picatinny rail or mounting plate, the UWP enables any platform to carry an energetic effect to a location, safely arm, safely release, and on command, detonate. • Developed and proof tested the patented detBALL® Disintegrating Frac Ball. The detBALL® is used down hole in an oil well during plug & perf operations during a fracing event. It is a fully autonomous device that once pressure activated down hole detonates into small fragments. These fragments are made from dissolving metallic material that disappears over time. This device allows for instantaneous resource recovery and allows perf operations beyond current length capability of drilling out with coiled tubing. • Sr. Project Engineer responsible for design, development, test, customer interface and transition into production of the Man Portable Line Charge (MPLC) system which was in response to an urgent need from the US Army. Worked directly with the Asymmetric Warfare Group (AWG), Rapid Equipment Force (REF) and end users to produce a light weight rocket propelled explosive line charge used to clear a narrow foot path through mined obstacles exposing, disrupting or neutralizing improvised explosive device (IED) trigger mechanisms. • Sr. Project Engineer on the APOBS program responsible for its initial program win, system/product development, transition into production and long multi-year contract wins in excess of ~$100 million of revenue.