06Meet Andre

Andre Valentine · The person behind HIIQ

Aloha, meet Andre.

Andre likes a tangled problem. Air Force logistics taught him that every handoff matters. A Hawaiʻi family business taught him how many jobs hide behind one owner. HIIQ is what happens when you put the two together: we listen, find the knot, and build something people actually use.

We care about how a story is told as much as how a system works. You should understand what changes, why it helps, and who owns the next step. That’s the relationship we want to build with you.

Andre smiling and matching the outstretched-fist pose of a colorful cartoon statue.
Matching a statue’s pose. A little playfulness belongs in the story, too.

The path to HIIQ

A few chapters.
One way of working.

Andre making a shaka gesture beside a military cargo aircraft
A supplied photograph from Andre’s air transportation and logistics chapter.

Learned where the handoff matters.

Andre served in U.S. Air Force air transportation and logistics, retiring as a Senior Master Sergeant. Moving people and cargo taught him to look beyond an individual task: who needs the information next, what could go wrong, and how will they know?

Grounded in the family business.

His family’s small-business life in Hawaiʻi is part of his own story. Working across finance, IT, and purchasing showed him how much an owner carries between the official jobs. Those everyday details are where we start listening.

Built around people.

With HIIQ, Andre brings that practical experience to websites, software, and automation. We want the work to be clear, the explanation to make sense, and the important decisions to stay with a person. A useful system should make the next step easier to see.

What Andre brings to the work

Easygoing enough to talk story.
Disciplined enough to close the loop.

Listen before building.

The small detail you almost leave out may explain the whole problem.

Explain it plainly.

You should be able to ask a basic question and get a useful answer.

Keep people in control.

Clear checks, visible exceptions, and an owner for the next step.

Have a process that takes more explaining than it should? That’s a useful place to start.

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