Modovolo at the moment introduced the appointment of Tim Handley as the corporate’s new Chief
Data Officer (CIO).
“Modovolo’s mission,” mentioned 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 know-how. And we relentlessly deal with lean manufacturing to continuously and radically decrease costs. Tim believes on this mission as a result of that is what he has performed his total life.”
Tim is an entrepreneur who has based, bootstrapped, and incubated two corporations, the latest of which is Flyguys, which Tim based in 2015. Funded with $50,000, Tim constructed a digital airline from scratch.
By flying a whole bunch of missions throughout scores of industries and use circumstances, he created and documented flight operation procedures for each use case and trade for which he flew, after which crafted and coded the early variations of the logistics software program that put the fitting pilot with the fitting gear for any given mission or contract that Flyguys bought nationwide.
The outcomes converse for themselves, Flyguys now has a nationwide footprint of 1000+ affiliate pilots.
“I’ve been pondering that the drone trade is prepared for radical change,” mentioned Tim, “and so after I was launched to the Modovolo group I knew they have been totally different. They’re culture-focused with the intention of constructing an incredible firm. Plus, their drone is a recreation changer. I wished 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 have to be a tough employee with ardour and a piece ethic to succeed. The third: you have to be intellectually curious (as a result of you possibly can’t repair silly). And fourth (however solely you probably have happy the primary three standards): you have to have wonderful expertise. Tim crushes the 4 standards.”
Tim and Justin instantly hit off after they first began speaking as a result of there was an ideal alignment of how they give thought to the rules that make for an incredible firm.
Tim explains, “Modovolo has the fitting 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 an incredible firm with many nice merchandise. That’s what we would like.”
Justin explains, “We’ve taken classes from the nice corporations similar to Apple, Toyota, Tesla, and SpaceX. Let me offer you two examples:
‘Stroll the Gemba’ is one thing that Toyota stresses in its decision-making. It means: it is advisable see the issue firsthand. Stay it. Really feel it. Solely then are you able to search for an answer.
One other instance is: First, Ideas Pondering. That is one thing Elon Musk preaches to his corporations. It’s a must to boil the issue to its core parts. Query every little thing.
We consider that Strolling the Gemba and First Ideas Pondering are very highly effective collectively.”
Tim continued: “As is everybody on the Modovolo group, my focus might 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 big 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 Carry, an endlessly configurable modular drone platform of Carry Pods and Utility Pods which are clicked collectively like Legos to construct the fitting drone for each software, with hours of flight time, and at a value 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