
Joshua Isley
Service Manager/ Lead Tech/ Shop Foreman
As a kid, Joshua grew up with his father working on big trucks and doing work on cars with his business. As he got older, Joshua thought he wanted to do other things. At 16 he was given/bought his grandpa’s 1983 C-10 Silverado package. It needed some TLC, but the deal was he’d do all the work and fix it up. Due to this, Joshua took Autotech in high school for 2 years, and in his senior year, he was bitten hard by the bug to get be a tech.
After graduating in 2006, Joshua didn’t really have a plan yet, as most 18-year-olds don’t. His dreams and plans of joining the marines got snuffed out due to medical problems with his ears so, in January of 2007, he started to check out tech schools and found ATI in Virginia Beach. After a tour of the school, Joshua enrolled as a student in February 2007.
After 12 months and 2 days in tech school, Joshua graduated and started his career as a tech. Fast-forward to 2016, he started as a VW tech at a local dealer and took off with his VW/ Audi passion and by 2020 he was fully certified and hybrid certified on pace to be an EV Tech to prepare for the future of automobiles. Unfortunately, those plans didn’t fully pan out and he parted ways with that dealer. Soon after, Joshua was approached by Arul and the pair approached Charles about starting their garage, and thus ACI was born in 2022.