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Anthony
L. Edridge, Ph.D.
Engineer & Product Marketing Director
M2 Global Technology, Ltd.
Manager of engineering for M2 Global Technology, Dr.
Edridge has over 20 years of experience in engineering,
quality, and project management in the telecommunications,
electronics, aerospace, and mining fields. His
background also includes 13 years of research and
development accomplishments.
Previously manager of engineering at Data Race, Inc.
of San Antonio, Dr. Edridge also served for several
years as vice president of engineering and systems
at Sextant Electronics, Inc., and provided turnkey
design and installation for Chambers Security Systems. In
the mining industry he held engineering positions
at Idarado Mining Company in Telluride, Colorado. Earlier
in his career in England, he conducted research on
microwave devices as senior principal scientist for
the Plessey Company, Ltd. at the Allen Clarke Research
Centre, and served as an engineer in the aerospace
industry with British Aircraft Ltd.
Dr. Edridge's management experience covers all areas
of engineering, including hardware, software, quality
assurance, test, manufacturing engineering, and business
development. His accomplishments include
successful leadership of several avionics projects,
six concurrent research projects developing solid-state
microwave components, and negotiation of specifications
and price for a $1M project to design and manufacture
a complex wide area intercom system. In
addition, he developed all engineering department
procedures for ISO 9002 and participated in revision
of most of the other company procedures.
His problem-solving capabilities have led to significant
financial improvements. In a $12M manufacturing
project, Dr. Edridge identified numerous customer
specification errors and created documentation to
support a successful $1M chargeback claim on a government
contract. In another case, he proposed
and designed a circuit modification for an obsolete
part, saving the company and the customer over $200K
each. At a mining facility, he solved
equipment problems at an ore treatment system, which
reduced average repair time from 48 hours to less
than 2 hours, extended equipment life, and eliminated
the need for a $500K capital expenditure.
Dr. Edridge's technical achievements include designing
and building the first cooled mm-wave receiver for
the 16-foot radio telescope at the McDonald Observatory,
which greatly improved signal quality. In
another project, he dramatically increased the profitability
of a low-bid contract for satellite communication
systems by developing an airborne amplifier/matching
unit that met all requirements but cost less than
$1K, saving $20K on each of four installations. In
addition, Dr. Edridge developed a patented process
for the application of thin film coatings on active
and passive electronic devices, and also obtained
a patent for growing epitaxial GaAs microwave devices.
Education
Ph.D. in Microwave Physics, University of Surrey,
England
Bachelor of Science in Electronics, University of
Southampton, England
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