I realize my amount of dives are far short of the requirements and that it would take quite a bit of time to achieve the instructor level od certification....
I have considered attending one of the dive academies in the keys to get through the certifications in about 16 weeks
I suspect your assumption about "quite a bit of time" is unrealistic. You may be able to tick the boxes on someone's checklist while they rush you through a few months of diver education training, but to think that you're going to go from <50 dives to an instructor in a few months (even a few months of diving all day every day) is foolish to me.
You can read all day long here on Scuba Board to get various takes on it, but there's no magic number of dives, number of years, etc. that will prepare you for the job. It's about variety of experience over a great period of time, the types of issues you've had yourself, mitigated for others, rescues you've performed and a whole host of categorically rare things that make an instructors' knowledge valuable. It takes a lot of time diving to build up that arsenal of experiences to the point where it's worthwhile for someone to want to buy access to your experiences (especially with the high degree of competition in the industry).
If you're in such a hurry, I'd second Akimbo's suggestion that you look more toward the captains' license or working on compressors, or leveraging some aspect of your previous business experience to aid a shop. You just won't even have scratched the surface of what you'll need to be a good instructor in 16 weeks. Or 32 weeks. Or considerably more...