Director: David C Alam had an extensive career in professional finance and commercial business management at executive level across a range of service and manufacturing industries. More recently turning his focus, with a passion for aviation and aerospace, to the world of UAV design, operations and aerial survey. David commenced in the UAV industry in 2016 gaining initial experience in a commercial drone service business, since then, honing progressively more sophisticated systems and UAV platform development skills, formed a specialist UAV enterprise, UASA in 2018. A joint venture with Shift Geophysics in 2019, has added a new entity, AirGeoX which works alongside UASA with a particular focus on Aeromagnetics. In 2020 a new strategic focus on specialised Advanced Manufacturing UAV and Aerospace components created in-house, was added with David well suited to project manage new and exciting future developments for UASA.
Qualifications:
• Bachelor of Business from University of Southern Queensland
• CPA Finance and Accounting
• CASA Chief Pilot Certified
• CASA Remote Pilots License
• CASA Aeronautical Radio Operator Certificate
Experience:
• UAV Helicopter <25Kg Owner Operator
• CASA accredited Chief Remote Pilot RPAS systems operator
• UAV Fixed Wings
• UAV Multirotor
• Pixhawk autopilot UAV installation, Jupiter auto pilot and other advanced UAS avionics
• UAV construction and system configuration
• UAS operations aerial photography data collection and management
• AirGeoX UAV exploration magnetic & hyper-spectral surveying