Modovolo at this time introduced the appointment of Tim Handley as the corporate’s new Chief
Data Officer (CIO).
“Modovolo’s mission,” stated Justin Name, Modovolo’s CEO, and co-founder, “is to design merchandise with first rules pondering to have the very best performance-to-cost ratio of any drone expertise. And we relentlessly concentrate on lean manufacturing to always and radically decrease costs. Tim believes on this mission as a result of that is what he has finished his whole life.”
Tim is an entrepreneur who has based, bootstrapped, and incubated two corporations, the newest of which is Flyguys, which Tim based in 2015. Funded with $50,000, Tim constructed a digital airline from scratch.
By flying a whole lot of missions throughout scores of industries and use instances, he created and documented flight operation procedures for each use case and business for which he flew, after which crafted and coded the early variations of the logistics software program that put the best pilot with the best tools for any given mission or contract that Flyguys offered nationwide.
The outcomes converse for themselves, Flyguys now has a nationwide footprint of 1000+ affiliate pilots.
“I’ve been pondering that the drone business is prepared for radical change,” stated Tim, “and so once I was launched to the Modovolo group I knew they had been completely different. They’re culture-focused with the intention of constructing a fantastic firm. Plus, their drone is a recreation changer. I needed to be part of that.”
Justin Name continued: “We rent primarily based on 4 standards. The primary is that you simply can’t be a jerk. We solely rent good folks. The second: you should be a tough employee with ardour and a piece ethic to succeed. The third: you should be intellectually curious (as a result of you’ll be able to’t repair silly). And fourth (however solely in case you have happy the primary three standards): you could have superb abilities. Tim crushes the 4 standards.”
Tim and Justin instantly hit off once they first began speaking as a result of there was an ideal alignment of how they consider the rules that make for a fantastic firm.
Tim explains, “Modovolo has the best rules to win. That’s the important thing right here. With out these you could possibly make one good product however by no means make a fantastic firm with many nice merchandise. That’s what we would like.”
Justin explains, “We’ve taken classes from the good corporations equivalent to Apple, Toyota, Tesla, and SpaceX. Let me provide you with two examples:
‘Stroll the Gemba’ is one thing that Toyota stresses in its decision-making. It means: you could see the issue firsthand. Dwell it. Really feel it. Solely then are you able to search for an answer.
One other instance is: First, Rules Pondering. That is one thing Elon Musk preaches to his corporations. You must boil the issue to its core elements. Query all the things.
We imagine that Strolling the Gemba and First Rules Pondering are very highly effective collectively.”
Tim continued: “As is everybody on the Modovolo group, my focus will likely be on our tradition and on executing Modovolo’s mission and our core rules however with an emphasis on our software program.”
This appointment marks a major step in Modovolo’s ongoing dedication to increasing its management group with world-class expertise dedicated to its tradition and mission.
About Modovolo
Modovolo is a start-up that’s launched the Elevate, an endlessly configurable modular drone platform of Elevate Pods and Utility Pods which can be clicked collectively like Legos to construct the best drone for each software, with hours of flight time, and at a worth orders of magnitude lower than something in the marketplace. You’ll need to see it for your self.
For inquiries, please contact: Justin Name, at justin@modovolo.com
