Modovolo right this moment 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 considering to have the very best performance-to-cost ratio of any drone know-how. And we relentlessly give attention to lean manufacturing to continually and radically decrease costs. Tim believes on this mission as a result of that is what he has carried out his complete life.”
Tim is an entrepreneur who has based, bootstrapped, and incubated two firms, 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 lot of missions throughout scores of industries and use circumstances, 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 fitting pilot with the fitting tools for any given mission or contract that Flyguys offered nationwide.
The outcomes communicate for themselves, Flyguys now has a nationwide footprint of 1000+ affiliate pilots.
“I’ve been considering that the drone business is prepared for radical change,” stated Tim, “and so after I was launched to the Modovolo staff I knew they have been completely different. They’re culture-focused with the intention of constructing an incredible firm. Plus, their drone is a sport changer. I needed to be part of that.”
Justin Name continued: “We rent based mostly on 4 standards. The primary is that you simply can’t be a jerk. We solely rent good individuals. 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 may’t repair silly). And fourth (however solely if in case you have glad 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 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 might be able to make one good product however by no means make an incredible firm with many nice merchandise. That’s what we wish.”
Justin explains, “We’ve taken classes from the nice firms 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: you have to see the issue firsthand. Reside 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 firms. It’s a must to boil the issue to its core elements. Query the whole lot.
We imagine that Strolling the Gemba and First Ideas Pondering are very highly effective collectively.”
Tim continued: “As is everybody on the Modovolo staff, my focus will probably 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 staff with world-class expertise dedicated to its tradition and mission.
About Modovolo
Modovolo is a start-up that’s launched the Raise, an endlessly configurable modular drone platform of Raise Pods and Utility Pods which might be clicked collectively like Legos to construct the fitting drone for each utility, with hours of flight time, and at a value orders of magnitude lower than something available on the market. You’ll need to see it for your self.
For inquiries, please contact: Justin Name, at justin@modovolo.com
