Nathan Rouse, PE, PhD
Nathan earned a Bachelor of Science in Mining Engineering (‘09), Masters of Science in Explosives Engineering (‘10), and PhD in Mining and Explosives Engineering (‘15) from the University of Missouri-Rolla (Missouri S&T). He was active in the department in mucking, mine rescue, student design, and the SME and ISEE student chapters.
Nathan started working for Morgan Worldwide Consultants (MWC) in Lexington, KY in 2010. In 2014, MWC was acquired by Respec, Inc out of Rapid City, SD. He continued working in Lexington for Respec until 2019 when he joined DynoConsult, the consulting team for Dyno Nobel, as a principal consultant. He left Dyno to pursue a longtime dream and form his own company in January 2023.
Nathan’s career has been focused on drill and blast engineering and consulting. He has managed drill and blast projects for surface and underground mining and quarrying operations globally. He loves the opportunity to travel to a new site, meet new people, and work with new teams to improve their operational outcomes.
Rob Bush, PE
Rob is a licensed Professional Engineer with +15 years of diverse industry experience in technical, operations, and commercial leadership roles, primarily in the mining industry. These roles have had global reach, with particularly extensive experience in Latin America and Spanish fluency. He has spent the majority of his career providing technical blasting support to mining and civil engineers, and the projects they cared for, in surface and underground mining, tunneling, and other large unique civil projects. This included leading the implementation of the latest blasting technologies, such as electronic detonators and underground gassed emulsion pumping systems, in projects and geographies where they had never been used.
Rob has always maintained a curiosity for new technologies and techniques that optimize heavy industry, solving real problems at the workfront and improving the lives of the engineers and operators that confront them.