Daniel Weber

dan@businessadjacent.com Resume, PDF

Daniel Weber

Austin area, Texas. On-site, open to relocation. Any shift, including nights, weekends, and overtime.

dan@businessadjacent.com Resume, PDF

Six years in aviation. An off-grid van built from an empty shell. A consumer product taken from idea to national sales.

I am looking for work where new technology is actually getting built and shipped, and where I can help push it further.

The van

Power

400W solar, MPPT, battery bank, no grid

Comms

Starlink on a retractable mast

Where

Built in Minnesota, then rural Puerto Rico

A cargo shell turned into a workshop and an office that runs without a grid. 400W of solar on the rack feeding a 40A MPPT controller, a battery bank, an inverter, fused and switched, wired and laid out by me. Starlink on a retractable mast, a custom front bumper, all-terrain tires, an awning, a water tank. Inside, a desk and a multi-monitor setup. I built it in Minnesota and ran it in rural Puerto Rico for years in heat and humidity. When something failed I found it and fixed it where it sat. We also ran it as the power source on production sets that had no grid.

The van with both side doors open in a pine clearing, showing the interior desk, two monitors and a seat, with the awning extended overhead — 00.1

The white Ford E-Series van on a narrow dirt road, custom front bumper and roof rack, Starlink dish mounted on the rack — 01.1

The van on grass with the side awning staked out and the Starlink dish raised high on a mast above the roof rack — 01.2

The van stopped on a narrow road cut into dense green mountain vegetation in rural Puerto Rico — 01.3

The battery bank inside the van, with lugged cable runs, an inline fuse holder and a clear ANL fuse block mounted to the wall above it — 01.4BATTERY BANK · LUGGED RUNS · ANL FUSING · DISCONNECT

The switch panel built into the cabinet face inside the van, with rocker switches, twelve volt outlets, a voltmeter and the charge controller display — 01.5SWITCH PANEL · 12V OUTLETS · VOLTMETER

Looking down from above onto the van roof, showing the solar panels laid out and mounted across the roof rack — 01.6400W ARRAY · ROOF RACK MOUNT

The MPPT charge controller and inverter mounted inside the van, with cable runs entering from below — 01.740A MPPT CONTROLLER · INVERTER

Aviation

Worldwide Flight Services

2014 to 2015, mixed fleet

Southwest ramp

2015 to 2018, Boeing 737

Southwest cabin

2018 to 2021

Ramp work at Worldwide Flight Services in 2014 and 2015, on a mixed fleet: Airbus narrowbodies, McDonnell Douglas MD-80s, and whatever else came through the field. Cargo, lavatory service, pushbacks, ground equipment.

Then Southwest in Phoenix from 2015 to 2021. Three years on the ramp: towing Boeing 737s, bags, cargo, hazmat, lavatory, and gate turns, on a clock, under written handling rules you do not improvise around.

Then three years in the cabin, 2018 to 2021. Passengers, emergency procedures, medical response.

Standing on the ramp at night in a high visibility shirt beside the engine of a military widebody aircraft, chocks set under the main gear — 02.1

Marshalling an arriving narrowbody airliner at night on the ramp, arms raised overhead with two lit wands, the aircraft nose stopped a few metres away — 02.2

At the top of the airstairs at a Southwest Boeing 737 door, against a clear sky — 02.3

Sitting in the intake cowling of a Southwest 737 engine on the ramp, badge on the belt, turbine visible behind — 02.4

Product

Form

Aerosol

Reach

Nationwide Sales

Also

Built the storefront

With zero prior experience, I took an aerosol product from an idea to nationwide sales. I learned every step as I went. I sourced the manufacturer, handled the legal work and the trademark, dealt with tariff/import, and lined up all fulfillment and logistics. I also built and ran the storefront it sold through. I also ran production logistics for the brand: props, set construction, and boom/crane operation.

Autonomy

Miles

25,456 of 25,717

98.9%

Longest run

1,340 mi

Source

Tesla app counter

I use Tesla FSD every day, always on the latest version. As of August 2026 the Tesla app counter shows 25,456 of 25,717 miles driven on it, 98.9 percent, with a longest single run of 1,340 miles. I do the same thing with any new tool: run it long enough to find out where it holds and where it does not.

Tesla app self-driving screen showing 98.9 percent, 25,456 of 25,717 miles, a longest streak of 1,340.1 miles, a 24 day streak, and a monthly bar chart from April to August — 04.1

Equipment and capability

Forklift, skid steer, backhoe, tractor and loader, boom truck, aircraft tug, flatbed and trailer.
Class A CDL previously held.
Texas license, no citations since 16.
Solar and battery power systems, load sizing, wiring and fusing, schematics, root cause diagnosis.
Welding and fabrication experience, not certified.
Hazmat handling, weight and balance, aircraft ground movement, FAA cabin emergency and medical procedures.
Spanish, conversational.

If the work already has a written procedure, I run it as written. If it does not, I figure out the best path and try to optimize it.

dan@businessadjacent.com Resume, PDF

Austin area, Texas. On-site, open to relocation. Any shift, including nights, weekends, and overtime.