Joshua Nevins
McCordsville,IN
Summary
Encouraging manager and analytical problem-solver with talents for team building, leading and motivating, as well as excellent customer relations aptitude and relationship-building skills. Proficient in using independent decision-making skills and sound judgment to positively impact company success. Dedicated to applying training, monitoring and morale-building abilities to enhance employee engagement and boost performance.
Overview
2025
2025
years of professional experience
Work History
Owner / Operator
Aerial Integration LLC
- Consult with customers to assess needs and propose optimal solutions.
- Develop and nurtur lasting customer relationships by projecting professional image and responding quickly to logistical and scheduling issues.
- Develop business plan, processes and procedures to provide superior data acquisition to customers.
Sr Operations Manager
FlyGuys
01.2024 - 07.2024
- Oversaw staff and sub-contractor performance review assessments.
- Allocated resources to planned programs according to business objectives.
- Reduced financial inconsistencies while assessing and verifying billing invoices and expense reports.
- Assisted in recruiting, hiring and training of team members.
- Negotiated price and service with customers and vendors to decrease expenses and increase profit.
- Daily engagements with pilot managers in all stages of mission execution
- Created advanced tracking systems and analytical worksheets to oversee complex projects, monitoring verticals such as gross margin analysis, project timelines, safety compliance, and invoice reconciliation processes.
- Worked alongside SVPO in identifying and analyzing KPI metrics for transparency.
Operations Manager
Taranis
02.2021 - 01.2024
- Developed and maintained relationships with external vendors and suppliers.
- Managed inventory and supply chain operations to achieve timely and accurate delivery of goods and services.
- Analyzed and reported on key performance metrics to senior management.
- Directed initiatives to improve work environment, company culture or overall business strategy.
- Trained pilots on the scope of work and equipment we issued.
- Trained our drone service provider managers with the tools to schedule their pilots and monitor daily progress.
- Created advanced tracking systems and analytical worksheets to oversee complex projects, monitoring verticals such as project timelines and safety compliance.
- Collaborated with our product and dev teams to create efficient logistical tools for our drone service providers.
- Created new logics for the dev team to implement for monitoring our KPI’s and ensure quality data is represented in the metrics
- Daily engagements with pilots in all stages of mission execution
Owner
Skysquid
02.2017 - 03.2021
- Learned and used advanced drone inspection software to stay at forefront of industry.
- 300+ Telecomm towers inspected
- 600+ hours of flight time
- Agriculture: NDVI and RGB Sampling
- Construction progression monitoring
- Commercial & Residential land surveying
- Map Processing
- Marketing
- R&D pilot on proprietary flight and mission planning software
Education
No Degree - Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology
Purdue University
West Lafayette, INAssociate of Science - Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology
Community College of The Air Force
Montgomery, ALSkills
- Project Audit
- Personnel Management
- Financial Planning
- Strategic Planning
- Hiring
- Performance Analysis
- Operations Management
- Documentation And Reporting
Websites
Notableprojects
- State Farm Insurance, Sponsored pilot under I.P.P. (Integration Pilot Program) and trained by M.A.A.P. at Virginia Tech University. Part of 3 person team practicing safety protocols while successfully acquiring high resolution data. These policies would assist in the creation of policy. Operated under Part 107.19 waiver for class C airspace and below. Regularly filed NOTAMS with the FAA before flight to ensure safety measures were met with local airports. Flew in Nashville, TN days after the tornado to capture data for claims; creating othomosaics for damage assessment.
- Talon Analytics, Collected data of cell phone towers in Indiana, Oregon, Texas and South Carolina as AT&T and T-Mobile scaled for the 5G network upgrade.
Skillsandnotes
- Experience with:
Microsoft Office
ClickUp
Jira
WebODM
- Trained and Certified by M.A.A.P.
- R&D experience with testing proprietary flight planning and in flight software
- Extensive experience with drone equipment
Timeline
Sr Operations Manager
FlyGuys
01.2024 - 07.2024
Operations Manager
Taranis
02.2021 - 01.2024
Owner
Skysquid
02.2017 - 03.2021
Owner / Operator
Aerial Integration LLC
No Degree - Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology
Purdue University
Associate of Science - Atmospheric Sciences And Meteorology
Community College of The Air Force
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