Summary
Kurt Christensen is a Principal Engineer with 17 years of experience and a 30+ year technical career blending systems engineering, data modeling, and enterprise architecture on large government and commercial programs. He specializes in knowledge capture and representation (ISO-704, IDEF0, UML, ER), requirements management, and building shared ontologies and repositories that enable reuse across programs and tools. Kurt has led systems architecture, release/configuration management, and high-performance middleware and analytics efforts, including work that supported ACAT-1 acquisition milestones and DoDAF-aligned enterprise views. Known for abstract thinking, he routinely translates complex domain models into practical engineering artifacts and automated artifacts (e.g., auto-populating proposals and test procedures). Based in Westminster, MD, he combines deep technical breadth—from NLP and ISR algorithms to DB publishing and meta-modeling—with hands-on program leadership on agile government contracts. An under-the-radar strength is his track record of creating archival, multi-project ontologies that accelerate proposal generation and cross-project integration.
17 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Physics, BS, Physics at Virginia Tech
MS, Engineering Management, MS, Engineering Management at The George Washington University
Russian, English