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Anthony
L. Edridge, Ph.D.
Engineer & Product Marketing Director
M2 Global Technology, Ltd.
A senior scientist and consultant, Dr. Edridge has
over 30 years of experience in engineering, quality,
and project management in the telecommunications,
electronics, aerospace, and defense fields. His
background also includes 13 years of research and
development accomplishments.
As manager of engineering for M2 Global Technology,
Dr. Edridge introduced technical innovations for high-power
components that led to significant business with new
military customers. His leadership of the
engineering team resulted in a 50 percent reduction
in new product introduction cycle time, which was
a major factor in increasing M2 Global's product market
share.
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
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 abilities 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, reducing average
repair time from 48 hours to less than 2 hours, extending
equipment life, and eliminating 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,
increasing the profitability of a low-bid contract
for satellite communication systems by developing
an airborne amplifier and matching unit that saved
$80K, creating a patented process for the application
of thin-film coatings on active and passive electronic
devices, and obtaining 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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