My name is Lieutenant Mark R. Kurzinski, United States Navy (Ret.) I am originally from Syracuse NY where I enlisted in the Navy in 1993 and circumnavigated the world 3 times in the Aviation, Surface and Expeditionary Warfare communities culminating in 20 years of service to this country. During my tour of duty, I was fortunate to be selected to an officer commissioning program and received a Bachelor's degree in Communication/Broadcast Journalism from the University of San Diego. After retirement, I founded MidWest Drone & 3D Imaging in Cary IL blending multiple passions of flying, photography and video/audio production and editing.
I am a certificated FAA Part 91 multi-engine private pilot and FAA Part 107 sUAS remote pilot and have over 900 hours of total fixed-wing flying experience, most of it flying for the U.S. Navy.
In October, 2018, I was hired to be a contract instructor with DARTDrones, the nation's leader in drone training and have provided superior training to Phillips 66, Sinclair Oil, CHS Petroleum, Wounded Warrior Project, Southern California Edison, Consolidated Edison, Big Horn Rural Electric Co, Tuscon Electric, Verizon Frontline, Central State University, Santa Clarita Valley Water, CNN, NBC, CBS, ABC Affiliates, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Chicago VA Police, DHS, FBI, CIA and Police/Fire/SAR agencies nationwide. I was also recently certified as a Infrared Training Center Level 1 sUAS Thermographer #197455 and AUVSI TOP Level 2&3 Remote Pilot Instructor #1003-0039.
We provide Thermal Imaging with our DJI Matrice 300 RTK and Zenmuse XT2 infrared imager, orthomosiac mapping to .5 px per inch with Drone Deploy, Pix4D or DJI Ground Station Pro and high-resolution HDR aerial imagery and videography with our state-of-the-art, industry-leading DJI Inspire 2 and the Zenmuse X7 SUPER 35 24mp camera with a X5S gimbal as backup, and as a third option (back-up to the back-up) we have a Mavic 2 Pro with the Hasselblad camera.
We can also shoot handheld videography with the SUPER 35 Sony FS5 Mk2 and DJI Ronin-S/Sony A6400 combination anywhere in the Chicago region and beyond!