While pursuing his PhD dissertation topic in the field of sUAS for Nuclear Disaster Mitigation, he earned his Part 107 certificate and launched a small start-up to provide UAS mission services and help others obtain their licenses: DronePhD. A co-pioneer starting the vertical collaboration UAS@UCF, he also sponsored the Drone Team at Florida Polytechnic University while serving as professor in the S.T.E.M. program. Over the last 2 years, he has been a prominent aviator in the UAV world; accumulating many hundreds of autonomous and manual flight hours while conducting missions for Agriculture, Utilities, Real Estate, Insurance, Construction, and others. He has obtained sUAS Thermographer certification and is also a Mapping Specialist. Much of his field work has been conducting NDVI mapping for FL Citrus Groves, as well as Corn and Soybean analysis in the Mid-West.