Senior Staff Profiles

Dr H.R. Holliday, PhD., CEng., FIET, MIEEE.

Managing Director/Security Controller

Richard Holliday spent 15 years at RSRE (now DSTL/QinetiQ) before setting up his own company in 1973. His work includes the design of microwave devices and systems including many types of antennas. Special emphasis is on millimetre wave components and techniques, which find application in research, industry and the services, principally in radar and communication systems. He has researched into various aspects of solid state microwave sources and into the generation of millimetre wave radiation. Dr Holliday has considerable experience in the mechanical and electrical design of multi-axis precision antenna positioners. He was awarded a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University based on research into Large Area Silicon Microwave Devices.

Mrs J.B. Holliday, BA., CPhys., MInstP.

Director and Company Secretary

Jenny Holliday worked at RSRE researching microwave semiconductor devices, then for eight years in the Medical Physics Department at Dudley Road Hospital in Birmingham using radioactive tracer techniques. Since 1973 at Q-Par Angus, she has been involved with technical aspects of microwave work as well as general and financial management.

John Coad BSc CEng CPhys FInstP

General Manager

Following graduation from the University of Manchester with an Honours Degree in Physics, John began his career as a research scientist working for the Admiralty on a range of topics associated with underwater warfare. These encompassed both the theoretical aspects of the subject, including large-scale mathematical modelling techniques, as well as ‘hands-on’ experimentation, and sea trials of prototype equipment.

He then progressed through project management into general management before becoming Business Area Manager of QinetiQ’s Underwater Sensors and Oceanography Department. A number of senior management roles followed, centred on the themes of business improvement and business development. Amongst others these included responsibility for improving the commercialisation of underlying technical capability, and a revision of the company’s project management approach.

John joined Q-par Angus as General Manager in March 2011.

Robert Lowther MA, DipM, MCIM, Chartered Marketer

Sales & Marketing Manager

Robert joined Q-Par Angus in May 2011 having worked for more than 25 years in the electronics manufacturing sector and for a number of technology focussed companies. Since 1996 Robert has been involved directly in the RF and Microwave sector and has international sales and marketing management experience. Robert is commercially focussed and combines his business development work with his marketing management experience. Robert is also a part-time marketing tutor for a number of UK based business schools; has a Masters degree in Marketing Management and a Postgraduate Diploma in Marketing, he is now in his third decade as a member of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.

K. Goodman, BEng. (Hons), C.Eng., MIET.

Chief Engineer

Kenneth Goodman gained a degree in Electronics and Telecommunications at Sheffield University and has spent the last 20 years in Further and Higher Education. His roles included lecturing in electrical and electronic subjects as well as the managerial position of Head of School. After university he joined Racal as a Project Engineer working on electromagnetic compatibility, and on promotion to Senior Engineer he went on to work on a wide range of communications systems, predominantly in the HF band. This work included the design of synthesisers for frequency hopping purposes, modulators for HF transmitters, multiplexing systems and HF receivers for specific applications. He joins Q-par as a Senior Electronics Engineer to broaden their electronics base and to work as Chief Engineer.

Dr. A.J. Mackay, Ph.D, BSc.

Principal Scientist

Andrew Mackay worked for 14 years at DERA Malvern (now QinetiQ), before joining Q-par Angus. He is an expert in Frequency Selective Surfaces (FSS) with wide ranging knowledge of electromagnetic scattering theory and its computational application. He was responsible for several new areas of research in the prediction and reduction of radar cross section (RCS), including the use of plasmas and the application of chaos theory for high frequency RCS prediction in cavity structures. He has expertise in the use and design of ray-based and moment method (boundary element) prediction software, wave interactions in passive and materials, diffraction, glint and target characteristics. Andrew was awarded the John Benjamin Memorial Prize for Innovation, and gained his PhD for work on Electromagnetic Scattering in the Resonance region.

G.K. Davies

Workshop Manager and Craftsman

Prior to joining Q-par Angus Gerald was involved in jig and tool making which involved design, drilling, milling, tool-grinding and making and repairing tools. He also manufactured prototypes using high technology materials. He joined Q-par Angus in 1984 as workshop craftsman. Under his guidance the workshop and its staff has grown to its present size. He organises the work from drawing package to completed system, as well as instructing the other craftsmen and undertaking much of the prototyping himself.

Gerald is an exceptionally innovative craftsman capable of using any of the machine tools with consummate skill and ingenuity. The performance of systems which Q-par manufactures is critically dependent on the accuracy, design and method of manufacture of each component part. The company depends heavily on Gerald and his team for their expertise and skills.

His qualifications include first class certificates in Craft Practice and City and Guilds in Mechanical Engineering.

S. Davies, BSc., CEng., MIET.

Senior Microwave Engineer

Prior to joining Q-par Angus in November 2001, Simon Davies worked for some twenty years as a Research and Development Engineer at broadcast antenna system manufacturer, Alan Dick & Co. Ltd. Initially starting as a project engineer on RF filters and combiners, he moved over to run Broadcast Research and Development, covering many aspects including broadband UHF antenna design, high performance filters, electromagnetic modelling, pattern prediction and computer controlled test & measurement.  Following the explosion in the communication antennas market, he spent the last seven years designing both high and low gain dual polarised array antennas for mobile phone base stations, with particular emphasis on low profile yet broadband microstrip antenna design.  He joined Q-Par Angus as a Senior Microwave Engineer, responsible for the design of Microwave products, initially concentrating on filters.